所以,你刚从朋友的桑拿房里大汗淋漓回来,你决定你也要洗个桑拿。这个目标有多现实?嗯,这肯定需要一些时间和精力,但作为一个帮助朋友建造传统圆顶桑拿房的人,我知道桑拿房是一种令人惊讶的简单的奢侈品。
The biggest obstacle is just making yourself get started.
This article will explain the basics of what every sauna needs, and then give you some tools to improvise a design for your specific situation. Toward the end I will talk about my personal experience with building a yurt sauna, but the majority of this article will cover the basics skeleton of any sauna project. Let’s get started, from the ground up!
Decide Where To Put Your Sauna
你选择桑拿的地点是一个多方面的决定,基本上取决于每个人的情况。你要建一个离网桑2022世界杯四强亚盘赔率拿房吗?它能连接到任何东西吗?你想要容纳多少人?还有一个“舒适”的因素——为了达到最大程度的放松,你可能想要选择一个隐蔽的、有一些特殊风景的地方。你必须解决任何位置的独特特征,所以本指南旨在成为结缔组织,汇集任何设计的问题。
The most important factor is that you pick as flat of a spot as you can—because you’re going to have to level the ground next.
Build A Foundation
Once you have your spot, it’s time to level the ground and build a foundation.
You have several options for the foundation. The best choices are concrete, wood, or gravel.
Concrete is durable, rot-resistant, and is easy to get. It’s hard to remove though. And expensive. A good variant of a concrete foundation is a pier foundation; these foundations don’t use as much concrete, and just require a few holes filled with cement.
木头是个不错的选择,因为它可以移动。It is considered a temporary structure so you won’t have building code inspectors knocking on your door.
Gravel requires only very simple prep, is easy to level, and will shed water run-off. Class 5 gravel is ideal for saunas. I strongly recommend getting a truck to haul in a large load, instead of trying to haul smaller loads back and forth in your car.
Get Your Equipment
You’ll need a way to fasten boards together, such as a hammer and nails, an air compressor and a nail gun, or screws and a drill motor. All will work. A nail gun will be faster, but is probably not worth buying just for this project—and if you don’t have experience using one, you may split the wood. You will definitely need a jig saw, ideally a table saw too. A skill saw wouldn’t hurt either.
Install Insulation
To prevent mold, insulate your sauna in this order.
- Exterior of your choice.
- Tyvek or some other breathable vapor barrier.
- OSBor plywood to act as an inner siding
- 2X6 studs with no less than R-19 insulation
- interior cedar interior finish.
The idea behind this arrangement of materials is that while moisture will pass through the walls, droplets won’t form. Cheaper insulation like foam board will block the passage of moisture through the walls, and your sauna will get moldy. Your walls need both insulation and a vapor barrier. Fiberglass insulation is a common solution. But it is not a joy to work with. You have to protect your body head to toe, and you can’t enter your house until you’ve been thoroughly cleaned. It gets everywhere. Recycled cotton insulation is an environmentally-friendly alternative. It is only slightly more expensive than fiberglass, and instead of being composed of glass shards,it’s just shredded blue jeans.
Install Your Heating Element
A smoke sauna is the time-honored method. It’s low-maintenance and follows the ancestral type of sauna culture that many traditionalists pine for. The good ol days before chimneys were invented, and the only way to heat a building was to light a fire in a stove, let the fire burn out, let the smoke out, and get inside. Considered superior by connoisseurs as the purest way of enjoying a sauna, as it only stays warm for ideal half hour timespan, and how the smoke with the interior wood siding produces essential aromas.
‘Wood-heated’ saunas were the next evolution in saunas. If you have a good source of wood, it’s going to be the cheapest way to go, even more so if you are truly off-grid. If you choose wood heat you’ll need to build a chimney or flue, which will require to you to research your county building code for the respective regulations. The best types of wood to burn for sauna stoves are: White Aspen, Western Red Cedar, White Cedar, Hemlock and Finnish spruce. But your choices will vary with location.
The electric sauna heaters are the kind you see in hotels all across America. Clean and cheap to run, the electric heater heats up stones just like the oven method and nothing is really lost. They are much easier to set a specific heat for a sustained period of time. No need to tend to a fire that ebbs and flows. You won’t have to build a chimney, or worry about a part of the sauna that has an open flame in it. Electric heaters can be wall-mounted or freestanding, with a range of sizes.
其他的选择,如地热供暖或锅炉发电,需要专门的知识和设备。
Install Lighting
Unless you are planning on going with a sensory-deprivation-themed sauna, you will want to have lights. Although I do recommend turning them off sometimes. If you wire your sauna for an electrical heating element, it will be easy to also wire the lights. Installing basic lighting is not nearly as hard as it seems. If you’re off-grid, solar led lights are a valid option. For a truly ancient experience, leave a sky light at the top for moon rays to cast themselves into the sauna.
Install A Water Source
所有的桑拿房都需要排水系统。这可能是一个基本的管道,把水从基础。但是用来制造蒸汽的水可以用水桶从附近的任何水源带进来。如果你想要更多的东西,你的特殊情况会导致不同的考虑。Some of the most important things to think about are:
- 最近的空管道连接处还有多远?
- Are you willing to find a way to hook it up to your sauna?
- Do you need a shower or a bath?
Let me know in the comments what your situation is and we can work something out.
That is the basic foundation of what you need to consider when building a sauna. There are limitless ways of building a sauna—fromthe 4,000-year-old stone sauna unearthed in Scotlandtothe portable saunas of British Columbia. Don’t let tradition stop you from experimenting!
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Caitlinsays
What was the cost of building your sauna?
Chris Winterssays
Christopher, I can see why the heating element would be one of the the most important elements of your sauna. My wife and I have been wanting to make a nice relaxing area in our backyard. I feel like a sauna would definitely make a nice touch.
Juliansays
恭喜你有了自己的桑拿房。这个设计真的很酷很独特。我一周用两次,你呢?
Marcinsays
Hello
I have some questions. Ale you online?