Built to your footprint
A custom build starts from the length and depth you give us, at our standard 7-foot ceiling. The benches, door and glass are laid out around that footprint instead of squeezed into a catalogue size.
Year one
It started with a neighbor
For a few years we did what most sauna companies in Florida still do: order kits from overseas, meet the freight truck, and put them together in somebody’s back yard. It worked until it did not. A kit is engineered for the shipping container first and the customer second — thin boards that cup in our humidity, a footprint that never quite fits the patio, door hardware you cannot replace without waiting six weeks on a vessel. We spent more time apologizing for those saunas than building them.
The turning point was a neighbor. He wanted a sauna sized to his own corner of the yard, we were tired of selling the ones we could buy, and we had a table saw, one bay of a rented shop and a stubborn idea about how the joints ought to be cut. That first build took most of a summer and roughly three times the cedar it should have. It is still standing two streets over.
What stays with you is the smell. Open a fresh lift of clear western red cedar in a closed shop in July and the whole building changes for a week. Everybody who has ever worked here ends up saying some version of the same thing: you stop noticing the heat and start noticing that.
Year two
Why we stopped importing kits
Not out of principle, at first. Out of embarrassment. Once you have cut a joint that tightens as the wood takes on moisture, you cannot go back to shipping one that loosens and call it the same product. So we installed our last container kit, set up to mill our own board profile, and started buying cedar by the lift instead of by the pallet. Building every sauna ourselves also meant we could build it to the size of your space instead of the size of a box.
Building here costs more. American clear cedar costs more than the import grade. Domestic thermally modified hardwood costs more than pressure-treated pine. Paying carpenters to dry-assemble a whole sauna, run it, and then take it apart again costs more than taping a box shut at the end of a line. We think the difference shows up in year seven, which is the only year that has ever mattered to us.
No dealer network, no showroom script, no third party assembling what we designed. When you call, you get somebody who walked the shop floor that morning and can tell you which sauna is on the bench.
Today, on film
Walk the shop floor
Workshop Tour: Cube Sauna Shells and a Finished Glass-Front Build
A walk through our workshop past cube sauna shells at different stages — pale and black board cladding, open door and window openings — with a stop at a finished black unit with a glass front and downlit canopy.
Every sauna on this site starts in our Sarasota workshop. From here our own crew delivers and installs them anywhere in Florida — Pensacola and Tallahassee, Jacksonville and Gainesville, Orlando and Melbourne, Tampa Bay, Naples and Fort Myers, Miami and the Keys.
