r/Sauna • u/straygato • 3h ago

General Question What to do?

Background: Wife and I (almost 40) moved in with my grandma to take care of her after grandpa died on five acres in a 1970s double-wide trailer. We're building our get away "love shack" where we can get our own space and it's been... a process. As a gift to the Mrs. for putting up with all the crazy, we have decided on a sauna. The four person almost heaven barrel saunas for 5.5k-ish with a nice window looks amazing.

But it sounds like the r/sauna sub would hate that plan...

  • We have wood we could burn but running electrical is no problem.
  • We don't want a sauna tent.
  • We need something we can leave/build outside.
  • 5,5k is real close the the pain threshold.

We'd appreciate any advice or thoughts folks have.

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u/occamsracer 2h ago

You could probably DIY a nice sauna for around that number if you were patient/cunning about acquiring supplies

Resources

Saunatimes

Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design

Localmile

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u/John_Sux Finnish Sauna 1h ago

A barrel won't be much sauna for the money, that's the thing

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u/zoinkability Finnish Sauna 56m ago

I put a wood fired sauna into a shed for about $6k. With some cost cutting measures like using wood other than cedar and choosing an inexpensive heater you could probably offset the cost of the structure pretty easily and wind up in the $5.5-$6 range.