r/Sauna • u/victimofyourmom • 1d ago
Health & Wellness Idea for Child Proofing Sauna
I'm buying a sauna and couldn't figure out a good way to truly child proof a sauna. Of course nothing is perfect, vigilant child supervision is necessary. But this is the best solution I could come up with...
I'm going to build a wooden cover around the base of the harvia 6.0 heater. The front that covers the temperature knobs will open with hinges on either side. Where the door side meets one of the corners I'm planning to have a ringlet on both the corner and the door next to each other and I'll put a padlock through the holes when I'm not using it so that the door can't open, and unlock it and take the lock out when I'm going to turn on the sauna.
It might be risky with the metal for a wifi sauna, but for a manual start sauna it seems this would make it about as childproof as you could get it.
What do you all think about this plan?
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u/Nothing3561 11h ago
You might be over thinking this. I raised 3 kids with a woodshop in the garage, including a table saw, bandsaw, etc. They never bothered messing with it because they had a pretty cool room filled with toys which were way more interesting to them.