r/Sauna

I posted the other day —> https://www.reddit.com/r/Sauna/s/vIs0Gvm6u1

Remember my post about the baby powder all over the sauna? Well… apparently that wasn’t a one-time thing.

walked in today and honestly thought someone had opened a bakery in there. The benches? Dusted. The floor? Snow-covered. The mats? Powdered donut status.

I genuinely need to know what is happening. Is someone applying baby powder by the handful before entering? Are we seasoning ourselves now? Are we preparing to be breaded and fried?

And yes, I KNOW it’s baby powder and not dirt. But WHY is there enough of it to leave footprints?! Everytime someone moves, I feel like I’m watching a low-budget music video with a fog machine.

At this point I’m afraid to sit down because I don’t want to leave looking like I just rolled around in flour.

Posting the pictures because I promise I am not exaggerating.

hi all, i wanted to share what my wife and i built. we really enjoy it, it gets hot in about 30 minutes and does not take much wood to keep it hot 🔥😎

i took lots of advice in this group. might not be perfect to everyone but for us it's perfect.

the chimney height was adjusted with another 2 feet section it was not sucking enough air in.

thank you for all the tips and tricks over the years i read posts and comments for 2 years before jumping in.

i am open to criticism if you see anything that does not make you happy karen 😝

I've been using this sauna since christmas day but broke my wrist soon after so Ill be finishing it over winter when i have more free time. I'll do a proper detailed post then.

Hotroom interior 5.5' x 7' and 9' tall. White deal cladding covered with black sauna wax and poplar benches. Benches are removable. Lighting is worked by an ecoflow power station w' solar and aliexpress lights. Stove is a harvia cilindro 20 with 170kg of stones.

Stove takes about an hour and a half to heat up, its definitely overkill here. Its more like a steam room sometimes when Im throwing water over myself, Id never been able to cool the stones. Llolyl is very soft and long lasting, throwing on the chimney net creates a long quicker harsher llolyl.

Concrete uninsulated reinforced foundation, roof is standing seam, exterior cladding yakisugi style white deal linseed oiled. Entire build was about 6-7 thousand euros.

Hey everyone,
We’ve been seeing floating saunas pop up all over the place lately and we did already an Event for L’Oréal with a Sauna on the Sundeck and now clients are completely obsessed with the Wellness idea. Mixing a proper wood-fired hot session with an immediate water cold plunge straight off the deck seems like the ultimate setup.

I wanted to ask the community a few questions:

? For those who have used one: Is it as good as it looks online, or is it mostly just a gimmick for social media?

? For anyone who owns or built one: What are the biggest hidden headaches? Beside marine insurance and open fire on Board.

Layout preference: Do you prefer stationary floating sauna docks, or actual motorized sauna boats where you can cruise out to a quiet spot first?

Would love to hear your experiences, favorite spots, or any build advice!

Has anyone in Canada (specifically Alberta/Sask/Manitoba) or the colder norther States bought a sauna from Backyard Discovery?
I’m curious how it holds up in a place where we get a lot of snow and it’s actually cold in the winter

Hi-it appears my builder may have put the vapor barrier in backwards with the reflective surface pointing out instead of in.

Do we need to start over again and rip it all out, or can we just put some kind of aluminum material on the interior?

Hello,

I’m thinking about buying an outdoor sauna and keeping it in my garage. I just bought a polar dive cold plunge this week and want to add a sauna. I don’t have anywhere outside that would work and having it in the garage should save some $s on electric work.

Is it a silly idea to have an outdoor sauna inside?

kept skipping sessions so I built an app (ChillCommit)

it lets me:
log cold/heat sessions
set challenges / commitments
see if I’m actually consistent

basically trying to remove the “I’ll do it later” excuse

is this something you’d use, or am I just overengineering a willpower problem?

if you're curious, I'd love some feedback!

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/chillcommit/id6759469466
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kihle.chillcommitapp

Hey guys and gals!

I have a space that was originally intended to be a closet, measuring 2.50×1.50 m (about 8 × 5 ft), and Im considering using it to build a sauna. I have one major concern before I proceed.

My concern is whether, after a sauna session, the adjacent room will become an oven even with proper insulation. I live in a hot climate, and the sauna would share one 8-ft wall with the room. The sauna ceiling would also be directly adjacent to the same room/area.

Im asking because I know many people here have built saunas inside their homes, so I really appreciate some real world experience. How much heat actually transfers into the surrounding room after using the sauna?

I need to know this before committing to the design, because if this is likely to make the room uncomfortably hot, I could still build the sauna outside the house instead.

Been running my sauna for about 3 months now, pretty much daily. Yesterday I entered and was greeted by a sharp smell. Not something you want in your sauna. It smelled a little like hitting a rock with a hammer, if you've ever smelled that smell.

Today I started unloading all the stones (harvia black vulcanite) from the heater (harvia legend pillar heater). I discovered that some of them have become discoloured, see the pictures. Specifically the ones that sit in the centre of the heater. They've browned a little, taking on a bit of a toasted look. Additionally the stones around the sides of the heater, the ones that touch the cage, have started to degrade the cage, see the pictures.

There's also a fair bit of shrapnel at the bottom of the heater, so looks like stones have been cracking.

Theories? Is the heater running too hot? Are the stones packed too tightly and not enough airflow? I definitely didn't jam the stones in there but they have fit together quite snugly like a puzzle.

Thanks for any thoughts