Rustic 4-8 Person Traditional Outdoor Sauna Cabin - Home Living Luxury

Rustic 4-8 Person Traditional Outdoor Sauna Cabin - Home Living Luxury

Genuine Finnish Sauna Experience

The 4-8 Person Traditional Outdoor Sauna Cabin offers exceptional adaptability, capable of withstanding heavy snow loads, making it suitable for both mountainous regions and your private backyard. Inside this rustic looking sauna cabin, you have the option of choosing between our stylish electric or wood-burning heaters for your authentic Finnish sauna experience.

This sauna cabin is designed for the ultimate sauna experience, featuring construction with solid, thick spruce log sections precisely profiled to ensure a perfect fit. With multiple sizes and configurations,, it comfortably accommodates four individuals and can easily host up to 10 if needed.

The cabin's rustic and contemporary design adds a woodland ambiance to your sauna, enhancing the natural feel of the experience and making it an eye-catching addition for your neighbours and friends. 

Key Features   

1. Premium Grade Spruce Logs: The walls and flooring of the rustic sauna cabin are meticulously crafted from premium grade Norwegian spruce logs. This exquisite wood not only lends natural beauty to the interior but is also carefully selected for its remarkable durability and the appealing grain patterns.
2. Exterior Painting: The rustic sauna cabin is professionally spray-painted in your chosen colour, providing a high-quality preservative finish that enhances durability and aesthetics. See the painting dossier below for colour swatches.
3. Seating and comfort: The sauna benches span the entire perimeter of the sauna, offering ample space for individuals to fully recline, allowing you to stretch out and make the most of your sauna session. This sauna can accommodate between a maximum of 10 individuals in the largest model, and the smallest model can squeeze up to 6 .
1. Additionally, we provide four headrests for you and your guests. These headrests are designed to enhance your comfort and relaxation, ensuring that you can fully unwind and savour the soothing warmth of our rustic sauna cabin.
4. Luxurious Deciduous Wood Benches and Spacious Design: Inside the rustic sauna cabin, you'll discover meticulously crafted benches and backrests fashioned from premium deciduous wood. This carefully chosen hardwood, sourced from trees like oak or birch, boasts aesthetically pleasing and alluring grain patterns, elevating the luxury and sophistication of your sauna experience.
5. Harvia Heater Selection and Essential Accessories: This sauna is designed to cater to your preferences, and this extends to your heating choices. You have the privilege of selecting from two exceptional heating options:
   
1. The Premium Harvia "Vega" or "Trendi" traditional electric heaters, prized for its efficient performance in consistently delivering soothing heat, ensuring that your sauna sessions are not only comfortable but also incredibly convenient.
2. The Harvia "M3" woodburning stove, which offers an authentic and atmospheric sauna experience. The crackling of wood and the delightful aroma of burning logs add a sensory dimension to your relaxation.
3. Safety is of paramount importance within our saunas. Regardless of your heating choice, each option comes with a dedicated heater safety fence.
4. To further enhance your sauna experience, we have included a bucket and ladle with your heater selection.
5. In addition, we have incorporated an accurate thermometer and hydrometer. These instruments provide you with the means to monitor and adjust the temperature and humidity levels, ensuring that your sauna environment is perfectly attuned to your preferences.
6. Harvia Sauna Light: Renowned for their excellence in sauna heaters, Harvia extends its expertise to sauna lighting. Our saunas feature Harvia Lights, ensuring premium illumination that contributes to the highest-grade sauna ambiance. The carefully chosen wattage and brightness levels create an optimal setting for relaxation.
7. Premium Grade Roof Shingles: Our roofing solution is as exceptional as the sauna itself. The roof is expertly crafted with a 6-layer bitumen tile system, starting with a durable fiberglass base coated with a polymer-reinforced bitumen mix. This high-quality bitumen and aggregate blend ensures the utmost in strength and resistance. To protect against UV exposure and various weather conditions, the top layer is surfaced with mineral granules. These granules are meticulously treated at high temperatures using a thermal method, guaranteeing long-lasting colour durability. To ensure ease of installation, the bottom of the tiles is coated with an adhesive polymer-reinforced bitumen layer, safeguarded by a removable silicon membrane. Our roofing solution is not just about functionality; it's a testament to quality and longevity.
8. Lockable Door with Tempered Glass and Premium Quality Door Fittings: As you step into our rustic sauna cabin, you are greeted by a secure and stylish entry that takes your safety, and makes it a priority. The lockable door is a vital feature designed to prevent unauthorized access to the sauna when it's not in use. This grants peace of mind knowing that your sauna remains off-limits to children. We place safety as a top priority.
1. Every aspect, even down to the door fittings, has been carefully considered to accentuate luxury and quality throughout your entire sauna experience.

Assembly

The sauna is delivered to you in convenient modular components, making the assembly process a breeze. Detailed and comprehensive assembly instructions are provided, making it easy for your joiner to put everything together seamlessly. 

The assembly of the sauna can be completed in just one day (roughly between 6-8 hours), making the process quick and efficient. Assembly manuals will be provided upon delivery.

For more information on this, along with all technical data, refer to our "Specifications | Foundations | Installation | Electrical" tab, whereby we cover all of the relevant information.

Our Traditional Sauna Heaters

When it comes to traditional saunas, the choice of heater is paramount. That's why we trust Harvia, the global leader in wood-burning sauna stoves and electric sauna heaters, to provide the heart of our saunas.

With over seven decades of expertise, Harvia has set the gold standard for sauna heating solutions. We proudly feature Harvia heaters in our traditional saunas, ensuring that you experience sauna bliss at its finest.

The Harvia Vega and Trendi Series stand out with their ingenious designs. The controls are strategically positioned at the top, offering effortless and ergonomic operation. Our Harvia heaters guarantee even heat distribution across every inch of your sauna, including those lower benches where you love to relax. The heater chosen is based on the size selected.

Features of the Harvia Vega and Trendi Series

1. User-Friendly Integrated Control: Each Harvia model comes with an integrated control unit, simplifying the sauna heating process. With this user-friendly feature, you can effortlessly adjust settings to create your perfect sauna environment.
2. Optimal Heat Distribution: Say goodbye to uneven heating. The wall-mounted design ensures that every corner of your sauna is enveloped in warmth.
3. Durability and Aesthetics: The stainless steel shell not only guarantees durability but also adds a touch of modern sophistication to your sauna space.
4. Natural Sauna Stones: Enhance your sauna experience with the addition of sauna stones. These stones boost heat and steam distribution, taking your relaxation to the next level.
5. Finnish Craftsmanship: Crafted in Finland, these heaters embody Finnish excellence in design, engineering, and manufacturing.

Harvia Vega and Trendi Sauna Stones

Sauna stones are the unsung heroes of the Finnish sauna tradition, and they play a pivotal role in elevating your Harvia sauna experience. Placed in a basket above the sauna's Harvia stove, these rocks serve two primary functions that contribute to the unique and comforting atmosphere of your sauna:

• Absorb and Retain Heat: Sauna stones are inherently thermally conductive, just like those used in our Harvia heaters. This means they excel at absorbing and retaining heat. When placed inside the Harvia sauna, these stones absorb the heat generated by the Harvia stove. As they slowly release this stored heat into the air, they help maintain a comfortably warm temperature in your sauna.
• Produce Steam: To achieve their second function of producing steam, sauna stones, like those found in our Harvia Vega and Trendi heaters, require contact with water. This is easily accomplished by ladling water onto the rocks periodically, and many Harvia sauna enthusiasts keep a bucket and ladle within their sauna for this purpose. When water is poured over the sauna stones in your Harvia Vega and Trendi heater, it generates steam. It's important to note that this doesn't saturate the entire room with steam. Instead, it creates localised humidity, enhancing your sauna experience.

Harvia Steam Sauna

The purpose of generating steam in our saunas with Harvia heaters is not to envelop the entire room in steam but rather to amplify the sauna experience. The presence of steam encourages sweating and intensifies your body's perception of heat, making your sauna session more invigorating and effective.

Just as sauna stones are integral to the Finnish sauna tradition, they are equally essential to your Harvia sauna experience. Their unique ability to absorb and retain heat, coupled with their role in producing localised  steam, creates the distinct and comforting atmosphere that Harvia sauna enthusiasts worldwide have come to love. So, the next time you step into your sauna and see those rocks atop the Harvia stove, you'll have a deeper appreciation for the role they play in enhancing your sauna experience.

In our traditional saunas, the steam effect is optional and can be easily achieved by pouring water, using the provided bucket and ladle, onto the sauna rocks. It's essential to keep in mind that the amount of steam produced is directly proportional to the amount of water you pour over the sauna rocks. This allows you to tailor your sauna experience to your preferences, ensuring that you enjoy the level of steam and humidity that suits you best.

Painting

Below, you'll find our detailed in-house painting documentation. In this dossier, we present an extensive range of colour options to choose from, along with insights into our meticulous painting process and the high-quality paint materials we use ensuring your pod stays in tip top quality for years to come.

Sauna Brochure

Welcome to our comprehensive outdoor traditional sauna brochure, where you will discover an array of sauna options to suit your unique preferences. Our saunas are not just places to relax and rejuvenate; they are a blank canvas for your imagination. With high levels of customisability, you can configure your sauna to include additional features such as extra seating, advanced heating systems, lighting options, or any other personal touch you desire. We're here to turn your sauna vision into a reality.

Note:

If you see your dream sauna in this catalogue and we do not have it displayed on the website, reach out to us and we will be able to work a miracle!.. 

Specifications | Foundations | Installation | Electrical

Specifications

Foundations

A crucial part of achieving longevity and getting the most out of your sauna is establishing a solid foundation. An inadequate foundation can lead to structural issues, potentially causing cracks in the sauna. Uneven placement of the sauna may alter its geometric shape, resulting in twisting of doors and windows, as well as the formation of gaps. In this section, we'll delve into the essential considerations for the base and access to the sides of your pod, guiding you through the process of creating the perfect foundation for your outdoor space.

Access for Installation & Maintenance

For seamless installation and maintenance of our saunas, access to all four sides is essential. We recommend allowing approximately 300mm (about 12 inches) of clearance around each side of the sauna. However, allowing more space should never be overlooked.

In instances where the sauna is positioned in a tight corner or a confined space, it's important to consider the potential challenges this may pose for future sauna maintenance. Restricted access can hinder routine visual inspections, which are typically recommended every six months. This regular check-up is crucial to identify and address any issues promptly, preventing them from escalating into more significant problems. Therefore, when placing the sauna in a snug location, please be mindful of the potential maintenance difficulties it may entail.

Base

The sauna's foundation is the bedrock upon which your outdoor relaxation retreat will stand. To maintain the sauna's structural integrity and prevent warping over time, it's imperative that all of our saunas are fitted on a level and sturdy surface. We do not recommend installing any of our saunas on uneven ground, grass, or generally unsuitable surfaces. Instead, we advocate for the ideal base, which includes options such as concrete, tarmac, patio stones, or even a structurally sound patio decking.

To ensure proper weight distribution and stability, it is crucial that the full, complete base is in contact with the ground. 

It's crucial to avoid any substantial depressions or gullies on the base surface. A depression of more than 3/4 of an inch (20mm) at any point across the base can lead to undesirable consequences, such as the sauna's floor being pushed down or bowed up in the middle. This not only poses structural issues but may also hinder you or your clients enjoyment of the sauna.

An inadequate base for any sauna can result in gaps forming. Gaps may develop in the sauna's doors or walls. These gaps can have several consequences, including:

1. Reduced Insulation: Gaps in the structure compromise the quality of the "air gap" insulation of the sauna, making it less energy-efficient and potentially leading to temperature fluctuations inside.
2. Pest Intrusion: Openings can allow pests to enter the sauna, which could create hygiene and maintenance issues.
3. Water Ingress: Gaps may permit water to seep into the sauna, potentially causing damage to the interior and its contents.
4. Aesthetic Deterioration: Uneven gaps can mar the sauna's appearance and affect its overall aesthetics.

It's essential to ensure that the sauna is placed on a level and appropriate foundation to prevent these issues.

Note:

If our recommendations for building / choosing a suitable base are not adhered to, the warranty of the sauna will be nulled!

How to Verify Your Sauna Base

Checking the solidity and levelness of your sauna base is crucial to ensure a flawless installation and prolonged usage. You can follow these simple steps to confirm its suitability:

• Use a level, a straight piece of material, alongside a spirit level to check for any rocking or depressions exceeding 3/4 of an inch (20mm).
• For added peace of mind, consider consulting a local builder or landscaper to confirm that the surface is level, ensuring a solid foundation for your outdoor sauna.

Get Our Opinion

If you have any doubts or questions about the surface where your sauna will be installed, please reach out to us. We are dedicated to providing you with peace of mind and expert assistance throughout the process.

To facilitate a comprehensive assessment of your sauna base, we invite you to share images via email to sales@homelivingluxury.com. Please include the following details in your email, which will help us evaluate your situation accurately and efficiently:

1. Images: Attach 3-5 images of your preferred pod base. This visual information is crucial for our assessment.
2. Additional Information: If there are any specific details or noteworthy aspects related to your base, please provide them in the email. This may include any unusual features or conditions.
3. Contact Number: Include your preferred contact number, allowing us to reach out to you promptly.
4. Sauna Type/Model: Kindly, mention the sauna type, model and size you are interested in. This will help us tailor our guidance to your specific needs.

Installation

The sauna is delivered to you in convenient modular components, making the assembly process a breeze. Detailed and comprehensive assembly instructions are provided, making it easy for your joiner to put everything together seamlessly. 

The assembly of the sauna can be completed in just one day (roughly between 6-12 hours, depending on chosen size), making the process quick and efficient. Assembly manuals will be provided upon delivery.

Order Timeline

Once your order is confirmed, our artisans begin crafting your sauna, typically taking 15-20 business days. Following this, we allocate 5 additional days for secure delivery. We aim for a total delivery timeframe of 20-25 days, although this may extend to 30 days under certain circumstances, such as customisation or weather-related delays. Our commitment to communication ensures you stay informed throughout the process.

On the Day of Delivery

When the delivery lorry arrives, it's crucial to ensure unobstructed access for unloading the sauna. The delivery vehicle will be an arctic lorry, so it's essential to make certain that the lorry can reach your property or the closest possible point for a successful and smooth delivery.

Electrical

Electrical Guide for Your Sauna

Before embarking on your sauna installation journey, it's crucial to understand that this sauna model is not a 13amp plug and play unit. Instead, it requires a dedicated hardwired electrical supply. Please take note of this important distinction as you prepare for the electrical setup of your sauna. The following guide will walk you through the necessary steps to ensure a safe and efficient electrical connection.

Power Supply     

This electrical setup must be hardwired, providing a dedicated power source for your sauna. This connection will be made into a rotary isolator, which is a crucial component in the electrical setup of your sauna.

The rotary isolator serves as a safety switch and allows you to control the power supply to your sauna. It's an essential part of creating a secure and efficient electrical system for your sauna experience.

For expert guidance on wiring the rotary isolator from your fuse board and connecting it to your sauna's power supply, we recommend consulting with your local qualified electrician. They have the knowledge and expertise to ensure a safe and reliable electrical setup for your sauna.

Rotary Isolator Placement

Position the rotary isolator within 1-2 meters of the sauna, ensuring convenient access for electrical connection. Thus ensuring the cable length is sufficient for connection.

Booking an Electrician

Due to high demand for electricians, it's advisable to book their services in advance. This proactive approach helps streamline the installation process.

Choosing Your Timing

Depending on your preference, electrical work can be completed either before or after the physical sauna installation. If scheduled before installation, our team can connect the sauna to the rotary isolator, assuming it has been fitted by the electrician. Alternatively, if electrical work is planned after installation, the electrician can handle the connection without requiring their presence during sauna installation. The electrician does not need to be present on the day of installation.

Qualified Electrical Installation

Your safety is paramount when it comes to enjoying your Home Living Luxury sauna to the fullest. If you do not have a rotary isolator installed on your property (as pictured above), you will need to have one installed. To guarantee a secure and efficient electrical setup, it's imperative to entrust this task to a qualified electrician who is well-versed in adhering to BS 7671 regulations. This guide outlines the essential knowledge to make your sauna experience both enjoyable and secure.

• Qualified Electrician: All electrical connections for your new sauna must be carried out by a qualified electrician. The installation must conform to BS 7671 regulations to ensure your