Sauna Installation - Lots of Choices
Where Will You Put Your Sauna?
Once you have decided how you will generate heat in your home sauna, the next
step is to decide where you will put the sauna. As has been mentioned, your heat
source may impact where you decide to locate your sauna.
For example, if you intend to heat with electricity, you may not be able to put
your sauna down on the edge of the lake without special wiring brought in. If
you plan to cut your own wood, you may want to place your sauna close to the
woodpile.
In addition, for steam saunas, a water supply is an important consideration when
deciding on a location. Indoor saunas may need to have plumbing and drains
installed. Outdoor saunas will also need plumbing unless you intend to collect
water or haul if from a faucet or nearby pond.
But many of these choices are purely for convenience or budgetary reasons. In
reality, your choices for a sauna location are limited only by your imagination,
and people have come up with some very creative sauna locations and designs.
In addition to more traditional home saunas built in bathrooms, basements or in
separate sauna buildings, people have put saunas on floating platforms in a pond
or lake; they have built them on trailer beds, and even in a van or the back of
a pickup. Of course these unique plans may require a bit more adaptation or
special materials, but the Internet is filled with design plans for all types of
saunas from standard to sensational.
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