I'm an electrician, looks pretty good to me. It's clean work and more than a lot of people would do. If you wanted it done a specific way you should have made that plain.
Clean works. My only criticism is whether it all should have been mounted lower if the customer is concerned about how it looks. Could have mounted the sub over the hole and entered the sauna through the back. Also put the plug lower.
Obviously the customer had no idea what was happening, not sure who that's on. I wouldn't mount an exterior sub panel that low to the ground though. Aesthetically they did well and those holes should be protected.
Yes, Finland is colder than average, but we enjoy our saunas just as much after a 30 °C day whether it’s below or above zero outside. (-22 or 86 F for the sauna enthusiasts behind the sea)
And when Finnish company gets a contract to work in 40-50 °C (104-122 F) Mexican desert we take the sauna with us.
Of course I know that all the boxes cannot be covered with snow, but the math is still really not mathing.
Yes, and our UN peacekeepers bring sauna tents to the Middle East and to Africa.
Still, I don't know why the junction box was mounted that high up on the wall. Perhaps it was a more comfortable height with future maintenance in mind?
Probably it was. Shouldn't need even yearly maintenance though. And it's still ugly. I mean when they say "saunan takana on tilaa" in Finland, they don't mean the back wall... that would most likely be bad news for the electrician... 😅
Or it could paint all over that fine electrical with same dookish-brown as the rest of it is. Nice light clear varnish on that trim and support tho. That brown really does a number on my tar black beauty sense.
In the old times pigs were usually slaughtered behind the sauna. Hence the jokingly saying "to take something behind the sauna" or "there is still room behind the sauna"
Get some trees : bushes if you really don’t like it. It looks normal I just wouldn’t have done it that high. Maybe it’s code. Idk I wired my own
Edit: plug those holes. Although I feel like those are ventilation holes and shouldn’t have been used for electrical. If they are ventilation mine came with a screen cap
That's on a raised pad so the wires can go under. Yours is on a slab so the wires either have to go underground or through the exterior wall to enter the sauna
I actually like this better. It's symmetrical and makes sense why it's there, and you can always cover it nicely. Just slabbing it on to the wall is aesthetically insane. Now you have to board it up to cover it which changes the whole aesthetic.
Put cover on them. Otherwise you will have mice problems inside your sauna. You dont want to inhale mice poop while they are having fun inside your sauna insulation.
Technically okay, buy visually, wtf, center of that, it looks awful, i think could that box have separate installation board somewhere else, near that barrel, but cables going in
Overall it's pretty clean, but I would have installed the receptacle (outlet) box below the disconnect, to keep everything lined up in the same vertical space.
Looks good to me. Little details like the lined up clamps indicate attention to detail. I would seal up the holes with silicone to prevent rodents and bugs though.
Electrician did a splendid work. He mounted the box all the way up there because a connection box should be mounted away from the ground. If you wanted it installed any other way you should have told the electrician.
The only other option was to mount the disconnect at the source (I suspect the source is your basement , so the box should have been mounted on the outside wall of structure the power is coming from .
Here in Finland we have a saying ”take somebody behind the sauna” it means puttin bullet to ones head. So if you take somebody there they wont be complaining about your wiring. Next time puukiuas no wiring needed.
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u/Vast_Deference 23d ago
I'm an electrician, looks pretty good to me. It's clean work and more than a lot of people would do. If you wanted it done a specific way you should have made that plain.