How to winter your cabin sauna in Minnesota

Most Upper Midwest cabin owners follow the same rhythm. The cabin opens Memorial Day, runs hard through summer, hosts a few fall weekends, and gets closed up by Thanksgiving at the latest. Then it sits for five or six months in the cold, dry winter. If a sauna is on the property, what happens to […]

The space blanket inside your sauna wall

A space blanket is a thin sheet of aluminized mylar. Wrap one around someone in a survival situation and it reflects most of their radiant body heat back toward them. Their core temperature stabilizes. The material itself is doing almost no insulating. It’s redirecting heat that would otherwise dissipate into the air. The foil vapor […]

The four ways saunas die in your yard.

There is a question buyers should ask before they ask about price. How long will this sauna run before it falls apart? Most people don’t ask it. They look at the photos, the wood, the heater. They compare prices across saunas for sale. They pick something that looks good and works for now. Three years […]