Where to locate a sauna

The beauty of a sauna kit is that it is intended to fit into an exiting room, garage or out building. This means that it is

• Very versatile.
• Designed to be trimmed or manipulated to fit into a space.
• Down to the buyer to decide where the sauna should be located.

Put simply, these kits are put together to give them maximum flexibility and this means that, providing that you have some free space in a room, you can install a small sauna just about anywhere.

Which rooms make the best locations?

The only minor concern that some people have in locating a sauna is the heat and possible humidity of the sauna and the effect that this may have on the room in which it is located.

In the case of an infrared sauna kit, this is not an issue as the infrared heaters heat the bodies in the sauna and have not perceptible warming or humidifying of the air. They can be situated in a bathroom, the corner of a bedroom, or any other room in a home. They will not add to the humidity of a room.

Saunas that use stoves (usually electric in domestic locations) are in fact just as versatile.

The aim of a sauna is to produce very hot dry heat, so humidity and high moisture levels are something that sauna users generally want to avoid. (The exception to this rule is if water is splashed over the sauna rocks to produce a steam shock.)

For this reason stove heated saunas are very versatile in terms of room location flexibility. However, if you wish to generate steam shocks it is advisable to locate the sauna in a room with an opening window or some other ventilation option. This will allow the sauna door to be left open and the humidity to escape once the session is over.

Typical locations for saunas include the bathroom, a converted study or store room, a utility room, a bedroom, a garage, an outbuilding or a cellar. In most cases the sauna is fitted into a portion of one of these rooms leaving the main function of the room unaffected.

Sauna location examples

Many saunas are fitted into bathrooms and they can take up as little room as a shower cubical.

When a bathroom containing a cupboard that holds a hot water cylinder and acts as a drying closet has the cylinder replaced by a combi boiler this can free up sufficient room for a small one or two person sauna kit.

Sauna kits are often fitted into bedrooms, or within the on-suite bathroom of a bedroom. They can also be located in recesses and alcoves use for fitted wardrobes.

Utility rooms that hold washing machines, tumble driers etc are popular locations for saunas.

Any disused area within a garage is often seen as an ideal sauna room location and the same is true of any outbuilding.

Finally, a sauna can be purchased as a complete prefabricated out-building that stands alone in a garden or back yard. This ensures that the sauna does not take up any room within a house and it enables a sauna without size restrictions to be selected.