Sauna is a room where people can take steam bath and can make themselves relaxed and stress-free. It improves the functioning of the body and strengthens the immune system. For sauna installation, a typical sauna blueprint is given below:
Efficient: A 6’X8’ room is a perfect size. It is big enough to accommodate six persons at the most and also small enough to heat quickly and efficiently at the same time.
Compact: The overall building dimensions for sauna is 8’x12’.
Proportion: The sauna room should encompass everything that is needed for a perfect sauna bath including insulated walls and ceiling and a glass door. The sauna room should be created in a way that requires minimal cutting and wastes.
Two rooms: A perfect sauna blueprint has to have two rooms. A room for taking steam bath and another for changing. The sauna bath is not a success if the door opens to the outside. It is imperative to have a room for changing.
Seating: 24” wide benches would be perfect for the sauna room.
Versatile: A sauna place should be versatile. It should be a place for the children to play during the day time and a place where one should forget all the office works and tensions at night. There can also be a storage room above the hot room.
There are few tips to be remembered and taken care of before the installation of sauna:
1. The light should be dimmer in the hot room.
2. There should be the supply of electricity for the heaters and other electrical appliances to work.
3. There should also be an efficient ventilation system for the proper circulation of the air.
4. The walls and ceiling of the sauna room should be insulated and can be made up of Abachi or Cedar wood types.
5. The heater should come along with the heat controlling system which will maintain the temperature and humidity at an optimum level.
6. Lastly, the door of sauna room should be an all glass door. An all glass door will be transparent due to which the activities of the bathers can be checked. The glass door is also resistant to the fluctuations in higher and lower temperature and humidity levels.