There are three basic options for sauna construction: prefabricated saunas, precut saunas, and custom-built saunas. Each option will product a comfortable, sturdy and efficient stoveroom. The option that suits you best will depend on a number of factors, including, your budget, your time, your construction knowledge, and of course the design of the sauna you want.

Prefabricated Saunas

The easiest and most common style of sauna is of course the prefabricated sauna. This type of sauna is simple to assemble as it comes completely ready to be put together. Often dealers of this type of sauna will provide installation services upon request. Prefab saunas are ideal for those with limited carpentry skills and little time, but who want to do their own work. A prefabricated sauna can usually be easily installed and fully operational in less than a day.

All the pieces of prefab sauna kits snow and lock into place, including walls, floor, ceiling, and benches. Like most other ready to assemble furniture a numbering or lettering system identifies the parts and you simply put them together. If you are looking to install your sauna outside, make sure your kit includes siding and roofing as well. Complete prefab sauna packages come with a stoveroom and other optional rooms such as dressing, relaxation, and shower rooms.

Precut Saunas

The precut sauna is the middle ground between a prefab and a custom built sauna. It usually includes the basic sauna structure, cut to your specifications by a sauna dealer. This essentially allows you to create your own design in an unassembled sauna which you can take home and put together on your own.

This type of sauna is well suited to individuals who have basic carpentry skills and who enjoy working with their hands. It is also a simple solutions for those who have an odd shape to fit the sauna into, or who cannot find a prefab sauna that is what they are looking for. Precut saunas do not have the easy "snap-together" construction style that prefab saunas do, but in most cases they can be easily assembled with a hammer and nails, or screwdriver and screws.

Price-wise, a precut sauna can be more or less expensive than a prefab one. It often depends on the design and size of your sauna.

Custom Saunas

Custom saunas allow you the most freedom in your design. They can be built to any size and shape, and can have many unique features added to make them your own. If you want a sauna with an unusual floor plan or shape, have a beautiful view that you'd like to have windows facing, want specially contoured benches, or have other special needs, then a custom built sauna is often your only option. Custom saunas are also the most expensive ones to build, but the cost can often be slightly alleviated by doing the simpler jobs yourself and only contracting out the more difficult portions of construction.