Today there are many options in home saunas. The options are almost inexhaustible the only real limits are your own mind's eye and the assets to do what you desire. The first saunas were minimal pits burrowed into a mound the sauna was warmed with a wood fire as soon as the right temperature was achieved the smoke was cleaned and the sauna ceremony began.

Today a wood fire is still generally utilized in a steam sauna nevertheless today electricity is the most used, propane is also widely utilized to heat up the steam sauna. Electricity is utilized to heat up rocks that transfer the heat into the air, the current electric powered furnace is a far infrared sauna heater this heater utilizes radiant warmth from the far end of the light spectrum this infrared heat will not warm up the sauna enclosure it heats your body directly. The best part of infrared heat is it necessitates a very short warm up and is more efficient.

The 4 basic kinds of sauna heaters are:
1. Wood fired heaters
2. Electric Heaters
3. Far Infrared Electric Sauna heaters
4. Natural Gas and propane sauna heaters

It is much easier than ever before today to have private Finnish sauna in general all manufactures offer for sale pre built sauna kits that can be almost effortlessly be assembled by handy people one thing about one of these of sauna units over a built in sauna is that it could be broken down and be put in storage.

In a Finish sauna the amount of humidity is maintained by the bather utilizing a ladle and placing water on the warmed up rocks the water changes to steam increasing the humidity level making it a steam sauna. The use of an Infrared sauna heater eliminates the use of water it is a dry warmth and in general works at a lower temperature than a Finish sauna.