About this guide

Backyard Sauna Guide is a small independent publisher. We don't make, sell or install saunas, and no sauna brand owns or directs the site.

How pages are made

Pages are written with AI assistance and then checked against their sources — heater manuals, manufacturer spec sheets, government energy data and public cost guides. Each number links to where it came from. When a figure is our own arithmetic (for example, a monthly electricity estimate), we say so.

We don't publish customer reviews, star ratings or product-testing claims (we haven't tested the products we write about), and there are no expert personas here. If we haven't used a product, we compare what its maker publishes.

Illustrations

If a page has illustrations, they are AI-generated to help you picture the situation. They are not photos of real homes, saunas, jobs or people, and we never present them as our own work. We use them only where a drawing explains something — how heat moves, what sits in a kit box, how a circuit runs — and every one carries a note under the article.

How the site earns money

The site is meant to earn through affiliate links to sauna sellers on the Awin network. No link earns a commission yet. Once a program accepts us, its links sit in a box marked "Affiliate link", and if you buy through one, the seller may pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. Commissions don't change the planner's math or what we write. Details: affiliate disclosure.

What we don't cover

We don't make health claims about sauna use, and we don't give wiring or stove-installation steps: a sauna heater is wired by a licensed electrician, and a wood stove is installed to its manual and local code.