Sauna heater – the most important part of the sauna you’re building
When you decide to construct your own sauna, keep in mind that the single most important thing there is a sauna heater. Wooden floor and walls, insulation etc. are also important, but not as much as a sauna heater. Improper heater can render your sauna almost useless or change the pleasure of staying in a sauna into a broken heater repairing game. Not to mention situations when you won’t have proper energy source or buy too weak sauna heater to heat it enough.
The energy source: wood, gas or electricity
The first thing you have to choose is the proper energy source: wood, gas or electricity.
An electrical sauna heater is easiest to install and operate, but they can prove to be quite expensive. Gas is probably a better solution, providing you have a gas installation.
Sauna heaters that use wood are probably the most cumbersome and impractical (unless you have some good and cheap source of wood), but they are probably the most climatic of all.
Stainless steel
After choosing the energy source, make sure that all vital parts of your sauna heater are made of stainless steel. If not, look for some other model – high temperature speeds up the rusting processes so much that a sauna heater not made of normal steel will quickly rust and become unusable.
Rock capacity
When you’ve made sure that a sauna heater you’re going to buy is stainless steel one, check if there is enough space for rocks. If there isn’t enough space for the rocks, or there is only little or no contact between rocks and the heating elements, you can expect troubles. Your sauna heater won’t work as good as you’ve expected. The time to prepare a sauna will increase along with your energy bills.
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