The sauna is finally starting to look like something! We attached the walls together tonight (and it actually stood upright afterwards!) and plan to drop in the ceiling tomorrow.
The french door (Home Depot) was my idea (claustrophobic tendencies) and still has to be cut down a bit to fit Hopefully the glass panels in it will hold up to the heat (they are not insulated, so I worry). If not, I guess we're out $120 and whatever it will cost for a replacement door, which is still a far cheaper than the $400-$1200 doors we've priced at sauna dealers. We took the dog for a wintery walk on the beach today (Lake Superior) and found some great pieces of driftwood to use for the door handles.
We're dealing with some height and space restrictions in this corner, which is forcing us to deviate quite a bit from the basic sketches we started with. What started as a 5 x 6 sauna is now a 4.5 x 5 sauna. We sort of forgot to factor in the width of the framing when doing our original calculations (oops, I should have known better Dad). This size will still work just fine, but now the heater we ordered is too big for the space. The heater we selected was designed to heat between 210 and 300 c ft. Now were only dealing with about 145 c ft. A heater too large for a sauna will heat up all of the air in the room before the rocks in the heater have the change to fully heat up. Ultimately, the heat inside the sauna will then feel less natural. No worries, though. The heater we placed an order for hasn't been ordered from the manufacturer yet so still have time to switch to a smaller size.
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