Sauna At Home? Who has/uses them?

[brunner]

We are thinning of selling our hot tub and buying a sauna when we move in to our new house.

We enjoy using a sauna at our gym and feel rejuvenated afterwards.

Health benefits are pretty awesome!

Anyone have one, purchased one, justified in usage at home?

TIA


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[glen]

Keep this thread updated if you do it. I like you love the sauna but have always feared the cost to operate. I don't care if I ever set foot in a hot tub again but I use a sauna whenever I have one available.

[eastxhunter]

Have looked into this myself . Supposedly if you enjoy the high temps the ones at gyms get then you would be dissapointed with the external home ones that can only get in the 140-150 range. So I would think as with anything if you’re gunna get one get a good one.

I’m merely just talking about the lower end plug in type - it’s prolly a different case for an actual built in steam room if that’s what you’re thinking of doing. Would be curious to hear from actual first hand experience.

[RascalArms]

We have a Blue Wave cedar sauna in the garage. After 4 shoulder surgeries and neck problems, if I don’t get in this thing at least once a week I regret it. Has the infrared heaters vs the ceramic. Wife loves it as well. We have had it for more about 10 years now. The cedar still smells nice and it’s tough...it has survived 2 moves already. 👍

It’s been a great investment for us.

Blue Wave 2 Person Cedar Carbon Sauna https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0064SZD7C..._f24BEb4TX0K4R

[Acameron52]

Not at home but we have them at work that I try to get in several days a week!

[RascalArms]

Have looked into this myself . Supposedly if you enjoy the high temps the ones at gyms get then you would be dissapointed with the external home ones that can only get in the 140-150 range. So I would think as with anything if you’re gunna get one get a good one.

I’m merely just talking about the lower end plug in type - it’s prolly a different case for an actual built in steam room if that’s what you’re thinking of doing. Would be curious to hear from actual first hand experience.

Not sure where you are receiving that info? Our’s tops out and holds at 140 degrees. More than 30 minutes in it is not recommended....I seldom make that time personally. Anything longer is brutal and quite frankly unsafe. I can’t imagine the commercial gym versions being any hotter.

[eastxhunter]

^fair enough. I coulda sworn our sauna at 24hr fitness was always in the 175 range? I dunno - if you say 140 is good enough well I believe you

[topwater blowup]

They were a stable item in the houses that I rented while working in Finland, had the stone heater in them that you could put water on and create steam. was super nice.

Also had wood fired hot tubs.

My next house will have a Finnish style Sauna in it.....

Brazil had them and use eucalyptus leaves was super kool too.

[RascalArms]

^fair enough. I coulda sworn our sauna at 24hr fitness was always in the 175 range? I dunno - if you say 140 is good enough well I believe you

I don’t have first hand knowledge of the ones in the commercial gyms so I’m no expert. I can’t imagine temps of anywhere near 175. I’m telling ya....140 sucks.

Personal story: My daughter was in the Navy stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman. On one of her deployments a serviceman was found below deck locked up in some sort of hidden out of the way storage room. He had apparently unintentionally locked himself in without being able to get out and no one was alerted. My understanding was the temps in the room were in excess of 130 or so. They found him the next day naked and he had hung himself in some fashion. No proof but they speculated he was in such a panic state and stressed that he saw no other solution to the suffering.
I often think of the feeling he felt when in the sauna. There’s a whole lot of suck in that 😕

[Hooverfb]

I have not, but would follow your build if you did it. I use the gyms enough I've thought of building a dry sauna with a separate unit for an ice bath.

[cbd10pt]

I've built a few over the years.
Just enclose the top of your walk-in shower and you have a sauna
Of course you have to install a steam unit but again no big deal.

[Graysonhogs]

Got in one a few months ago that was 188. That didn't last long.

[double bogey]

Chances are you already have one in your home 6 months of the year. Go into your attic and enjoy. Complete with fiberglass external skin stimulation.

[BDann]

We have a near infrared sauna that used tungsten light bulbs. The enclosure is basically a canvas tent, and takes up maybe 4’x5’ of space. I really like the near infrared sauna over the steam saunas.

[Big H]

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