A sauna is a room made from softwood that incorporates a heater that can be either electric or wood-burning.
An average healthy individual can tolerate that kind of heat because it is a dry environment with extremely low humidity. This is called a dry sauna experience.
However, one other integral traditional sauna component is sauna stones. These are placed in or on the heater, and when they’re good and hot, you sprinkle some water on them to create a burst of steam. This is called a wet sauna experience because it generates humidity.
So to summarise, a sauna is a wooden room with an exceptional heater that is capable of producing either dry or wet heat.
Any health benefits attributed to sauna usage are linked to the fact that sauna rooms get hot.
These benefits include improved circulation, lower blood pressure, enhanced immune system, improved mental health, respiratory relief, detoxification, burned calories, reduced inflammation. Improved sleep, better skin tone, and joint and muscle pain relief.
Our barrel and indoor saunas are made for easy self assembly with the sauna units components having been hand crafted and pre assembled – ready for an easy installation. The experts have done all the prework with the front and end panel sections, ceiling (indoor) and benches pre-crafted at the factory, and all of the holes are pre-drilled for your ease with putting it together on site.
Generally two or three people can put a sauna together in just a handful of hours, so grab someone you love and have fun bonding over the building of your new sauna. Or we can arrange a professional assembly team to have it completed for you.
How hot or cold is it where you live, on average? The time it takes a sauna to heat up is contingent upon the ambient temperature surrounding the sauna.
So if you have an outdoor sauna and you live in a northern climate and it’s the dead of winter, give your sauna a little more time to heat up.
Furthermore, some people like their sauna hot and some like it blazing, and that’s a factor that will influence heat-up time too. However, as a rule of thumb, you can start enjoying the heat of your sauna within 30 minutes of turning it on.
Each Heavenly Sauna comes with a Limited Lifetime Warranty against manufacturing defects on all components through Almost Heaven Saunas.
Taking a sauna is traditionally a rotation of dry, wet, dry, wet, etc. with cool-down breaks in between.
A cool-down break can be anything as basic as sitting outside the sauna until you’re ready to enter again or it can be something fun like jumping in and out of your swimming pool or spa.
However, sitting in the sauna for an extended period of time with no breaks is not recommended.
The rest is up to you. Some say that the rule of thumb for sauna usage is whatever makes you comfortable. The moment it ceases to be comfortable, it ceases to be the proper way to take a sauna.
Every Heavenly Sauna package comes with all the pieces you need to assemble your sauna room – the sauna unit, a sauna heater, sauna stones, thermostat and hygrometer, bucket with ladle and a dimmer LED light.
The unit operates on an efficient 240v heater and draws approximately 32 – 40 amps of power depending on which KW heater is required.
Furthermore, it only draws power when you use it. You turn on the heater, let it get nice and hot, use the sauna, and then shut off the heater when you’re finished. As a result, the operational costs are negligible under normal use, much like the cost of a clothes dryer or electric oven.
A licensed electrician who knows how to do wire according to local electrical codes is required. He or she will have to hard-wire the heater back to the main switch on its own dedicated circuit. You have to think of the sauna heater just like a kitchen oven.
Very little, actually. If you purchased an outdoor barrel sauna, you may need to tighten the bands or add additional filler staves after a period of time, usually within the first few months.
Depending on the humidity and weather conditions in your area, the wood will either shrink or expand based on the amount of moisture absorption. The desired effect is to have the wood expand into the bands. To keep the inside clean, you can periodically scrub the floor or benches with a mild solution of water and baking soda.
