Guest post series continues. Please welcome Michael from Muskoka,Ontario, Canada; about 150KM north of Toronto, and about 120 km south of the well known Algonquin Park. Enter Michael: What compelled you to build your own sauna First I went to the YMCA
Guest post series continues. We welcome Mike, from Northwest Minnesota, who has created his own authentic sauna backyard retreat. For those of us busy with full time jobs and demands like a spouse who also works full time and young
There are so many interesting sauna door handles out there. As we build our own saunas, by the time we get around to making our own sauna doors, we are usually well on a roll. All our tools are laid
There are a couple schools of thought regarding sauna construction and sauna walls: Insulate, foil vapor barrier and tape the seams well. Don’t do anything, let the walls breathe. Those that prescribe to #1 (insulating and sealing our sauna walls
98.6% of us are not professional builders. And most professional builders are overly intimidated (and don’t return phone calls) from homeowners looking to have a sauna built. And for good reason. When it comes to building a sauna, there are
Guest post series continues. We welcome Andrew and Laurie who purchased a boat access lot on Tomiko Lake in Northern Ontario. Rugged, beautiful wilderness offers an ideal backdrop for a spacious wood burning sauna. All materials require boat transport. Extra
Guest post series continues. We first heard from Ben here, who shared the now famous “Ben Square sleeper method” concept for sloping a sauna hot room floor. Well, good news: Ben has completed his sauna, and we are excited to
Sauna Times Guest Post Series continues. Welcome to the Keen Sauna in Dryden Ontario Canada. The frozen north. Enter Peter: Peace and quiet? Calm relaxation in the Sauna? Hardly. We six moved this summer into a larger house, which had
Big home saunas? We’re not sure. Maybe it’s an American thing? Presently, all over the country, reasonable sized homes (1,500 square feet or so) are being knocked down. In their place are newly constructed sheetrock palaces that cube out a
The outdoor backyard authentic sauna experience is being enjoyed RIGHT now by many hundreds of people. How do I know this to be true? I have helped hundreds of people build their own authentic backyard saunas. But that’s not important.
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