When planning and designing our own saunas, consider that nice sauna benches are a place for attention and investment. Clear vs. knotty wood sauna benches Knots are imperfections from branches that cause living wood grain to grow around them. This interwoven grain is
Guest post series continues. Enter Russ, with a triangle support system to hold up our sauna benches… Construct your bench, using 2” x 4” cross braces aligned with wall studs. You will need to offset these by ½” from the
When you set your butt down, do your sauna benches move and creak like an antique dining room chair? Maybe it’s time for new sauna benches. I’ve sat on my share of sauna benches, and I can’t get over how this
This sauna was built 20 years ago. It’d take a calculator to figure out how many saunas (and how many bare asses) we’ve had on these sauna benches. The benches were built with 2×4 cedar, but I ran the boards
Making these sauna backrests are easy Especially during the tongue and groove stage of building your own authentic sauna, while tools are out and some extra remnant pieces are around. Materials: 7 – 1″ x 2″ x 18″ cedar 1
Two Bench options for your 6’x8′ sauna hot room: Either option can work ideally within your 8’x12′ sauna building. Advantages of Option A: A longer set of benches: (7’4″ long vs. 6′ long in option B). Great for laying out
Helpful advice to improve your sauna build.
I’ve built a dozen saunas have helped many dozens build their own. Not those indoor closet saunas made out of 2×2’s, but authentic saunas. Saunas that while looking up at the moon between rounds you say out loud: “shit, I
8′ ceiling. No upper bench. I was revved up for a salesman-on-the-road hotel sauna, but luckily I followed hotel sauna procedure and checked out the sauna before going to my hotel room. Instead of this lame ass sauna, I went
After a recent flurry of sauna bench construction for others, there I sat in my backyard outdoor sauna thinking “why don’t I change out my sauna benches?” Like the cobbler’s kids having holes in their shoes, I was thinking “man,
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