Congrats. For those of us who can’t afford to build one, we still enjoy the heat through other means.
Or at least I do.
There’s just something extraordinarily relaxing about going from the high heat (though obviously not too high) until one can’t bear it, then transitioning to a cool off.
It’s nice. Sauna doesn’t have to be that expensive. On par with a hot tub. Way less maintenance. Can be installed outdoors. It does suck if you can’t. Public Sauna run at a nice temp are not easy to find in the US.
Got any from countries with electrical codes from this century? GFCI protection has been required by code in bathrooms basically everywhere for 50 years.
In the US, I regularly see bathrooms and kitchens without GFCI.
I looked up the history:
1961 GFCI invented by a professor at UC Berkeley
1971 Added to NEC code for outdoor outlets
1981 … bathrooms
1987 … kitchens
2005 … laundry rooms and unfinished basements
2014 … crawlspaces, around pools and hot tubs
Lots of bathrooms haven't been renovated (or at least not with permits) in the last 45 years, apparently!
Sometimes posting on Hackernews.
It’s one of the high points of my day (the soak, not the posting).
This “I wonder” just screams lazy thinking.