SaunaLife G11 Garden Series Outdoor Sauna Kit — 3-Space, Seats 8, Thermo-Wood

Description

The Model G11 is the largest structure in SaunaLife's Garden Series — not a single cabin but a three-space building under one roof: a sauna room, a separate changing room, and a full-width covered entry across the front. The two rooms are the same size, 7'7" × 6'4" × 7'7" each, and the covered entry runs the full 13'1" width of the building, projecting 1'10" to shelter the door. Total capacity is up to eight bathers, seated on two-tier L-shaped benching in the sauna room.

A separate changing room is the detail that changes how an outdoor sauna actually gets used. Without one, bathers undress indoors and cross the yard; with one, the building works the way a Finnish sauna is meant to — a heated room, a cooling room, and a threshold between the two — and it stays usable in winter.

Every exposed component is thermally modified wood. Thermal modification means kiln-treating timber at high temperature in a low-oxygen atmosphere, which drives out the moisture and breaks down the sugars that fungi and insects feed on. The result is wood that absorbs far less water, moves far less with humidity swings, and resists rot without chemical preservatives — which is why it is used on an unheated outdoor structure that will sit through freeze-thaw cycles. It also darkens the timber to a warm brown throughout, not just on the surface.

The shell is thermo-spruce over 1.65" full-length thermo-pine staves. Full-length means each stave runs the entire wall without a butt joint, so there are no end-grain seams to open up. Inside the sauna room, bench tops and backrests are 1.1" knot-free thermo-aspen — aspen is chosen for bench contact surfaces because it stays cool to the touch and has no resin pockets to weep at temperature, and knot-free stock means no hard, hot knots under bare skin. The sauna floor sits on a 0.7" thermo-pine grid. The changing room has 1" thermo-pine benches, and 1.1" thermo-pine terrace furniture is included for use outside.

Daylight runs through the whole building. The door between the changing room and the sauna is 8 mm tempered bronze glass. The front entry door is wood with three windows and is lockable. A round window sits in the front wall, and the rear wall carries an openable window for through-ventilation — useful for drying the room out after a session, which is what keeps an outdoor sauna's interior sound over years.

The roof is a black shingle kit with underlayment, both included. The G11 ships as a kit for on-site assembly and carries SaunaLife's limited lifetime warranty.

Sauna room volume is approximately 364 cu ft (10.3 m³) — the figure your heater supplier will need. A heater is not included with this kit.

Specifications

Kit contents: staves, benches, doors, windows, roof shingles, roofing underlayment, cradles, fascia, vents, fasteners and spare staves. A lighting package is available separately.

Not included: sauna heater and controls, foundation or base pad, electrical work.

Features

• Three separate spaces under one roof — sauna room, changing room, covered entry
• Seats up to eight on two-tier L-shaped benching
• Thermally modified wood throughout — dimensionally stable and rot-resistant without chemical preservatives
• 1.65" full-length thermo-pine staves with no butt joints
• Knot-free 1.1" thermo-aspen bench tops and backrests
• 8 mm tempered bronze glass door between changing room and sauna
• Lockable wooden front door with three windows
• Round front window and openable rear window for through-ventilation
• Black shingle roof kit with underlayment included
• Thermo-pine terrace furniture included
• Limited lifetime warranty