Today there are many options in home saunas. The options are almost unlimited the only limitations are your own mind's eye and the capitol to achieve what you covet. The earliest saunas were plain holes excavated into a incline, the sauna was heated up with a wood fire when the appropriate temperature was reached the smoke was vacated out and the sauna ritual started.

Today a wood fire is still normally utilized in a steam sauna but today electricity is the most used, propane is also widely utilized to heat up the Finnish sauna. Electricity is utilized to heat up rocks that radiated the warmth into the atmosphere, the most economical electric operated furnace is a far infrared sauna heater this heater uses radiant warmth from the end of the light spectrum this infr red heat will not warm up the air it heats your body directly. An advantage of far infrared heat is it only needs a quick warm up time and is more efficient.

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

It is much easier than ever before at this time to have a steam sauna almost all corporations make pre made sauna unit that can be without difficulty be built by most people one benefit one of these of sauna kits above a custom built one is that it could be disassembled and taken with you when you move.

In a Finish sauna the moisture level is kept by the bather using a ladle and placing water on the heated rocks the h20 evaporates increasing the moisture level making it a steam sauna. By using an Infrared sauna heater refrains from the use of h20 it is a non humid heat and usually operates at a reduced heat range than a Finish sauna.