Fed up with having to traipse your way to the local spa or high-end gym to enjoy the wonderful relaxation and recovery benefits of a good sauna session?
If so, a home sauna could be a great investment. Home saunas are one of the most impressive and practical luxury items it is possible to have inside your home, and what’s better is that in the past few years they have become significantly more affordable.
Regular sessions in a sauna located in the comfort of your own home is not only an incredible luxury for you, your family, and your friends to enjoy, it also offers a range of practical health benefits that can aid in sports recovery and help you to relax after a long day.
Home sauna use has been proven to soothe aching muscles, detoxify the body, help both your body and mind to relax, and reduce the impact of stiff joint conditions such as arthritis.
A quick internet search will reveal a myriad of home sauna and steam room options, from bespoke professionally designed, and installed rooms that are built into a custom designed house to DIY kits that you have to build inside the home.
Costing close to £9,000, whilst a quality home sauna is more affordable now than in the past does not mean that they are exactly cheap. This is still a luxury item and doing the proper research is essential.
Despite what you might think, installing your own sauna can actually be more expensive in many situations.
This article will help you choose the perfect option for your needs and compare the benefits of each different installation approach.
Purchasing a pre-built sauna
If you are an experienced joiner who wants to take on a major project, you may decide to purchase all the materials and individual components that make up a home sauna and build yourself a bespoke set up completely from scratch.
There is only a very small number of people with the skills, time, and desire to do this, however.
For the majority of those who are looking to install a home sauna, there are two realistic options to achieve this.
One, have a professional company design, provide, and install the sauna for you; or two, purchased either a pre-built, or ‘flat-packed’ home sauna and attempt to install it yourself.
You should expect to pay around £2,000 more to have your sauna professionally installed, but doing so guarantees a certain level of competence that can avoid extremely expensive
If you or anyone else for that matter, attempts to move your new home sauna without professional help and damages it, this could end up costing you a LOT more than the £2,000 you might have saved.
Even if you do have the skills required to install the sauna yourself, you will still need to hire a qualified electrician to check that it has been installed safely and meets all the required standards.
This will take a significant chunk out of any savings that you made by avoiding professional assistance.
Many professional home sauna suppliers, have BOTH qualified joiners and qualified electricians as part of their installation team whose services are included within the cost of professional installation.
Professional Sauna Installation
With the exception of the occasional DIY expert who is trained in the required skills, DIY home sauna installation should not be attempted.
Hiring a respected professional company is worth the cost of sauna installation and is by far the best option for the following reasons, among many more:
- Warranty protects you from any accidental damage or electrical faults
- Perfect fit guaranteed
- Expert installation from experienced professionals
- Both joiners and electricians on hand throughout
- Huge selection of custom designs
What about customisation?
One of the biggest potential benefits that people cite as a reason to build their own custom sauna rather than using a professional company is that they have complete creative control over the shape and aesthetics.
If you are someone who cares about maintaining consistency of design throughout your home this is particularly important.
Despite the massive range of practical benefits to home sauna ownership such as muscle recovery, stress relief, and detoxification, this is still an incredibly luxury asset to have in your home.
You want a sauna that looks fantastic and will impress your family and friends when they come to visit.
Professional sauna companies are fully aware of this and at INKA we have a huge selection of different bespoke designs to choose from. There really is something for everyone.
Professional sauna installers have put a huge amount of investment into the design of their products, and we have everything from stylish classic wood built Finnish saunas to the very latest contemporary designed infrared units.
Even the most competent DIY installer will struggle to match the quality of product and installation offered by a professional.
This is a treat that you have worked hard to afford, and you deserve the very best.
This is exactly what professional home sauna installation provides.