u/Callmeagile

Would you consider this dangerous? As you can see, it maintains a healthy bend radius, and there is no other sheath damage. Retire, or fine?

Like many of you I recently learned about the benefits of sauna, then started daydreaming how great it would be to have one in my backyard. I fell down the trumpkin rabbit hole, researched all the options, almost went with the knotty kit, but ultimately decided that the best approach was custom design and build to get exactly what I wanted. It was built by a contractor friend of mine based on designs we collaborated on and I'm very happy with the result and have been using it daily for the past month and loving it!

Specs:

Interior and exterior walls: hemlock

Benches and backrests: poplar (i tried to source basswood, but couldn't find any)

Interior dimensions: 8x8x8.5

Heater: Harvia club 12.5 with Fenix FX45 controller

Intake above heater with backflow prevention

Exhaust below footbench with an AC Infinity Cloudline T6 pulling

Feel free to ask any questions! Next phase is a deck that connects the sauna door to the back door, then turning what used to be an old rotting deck into a shower and changing room!