Minnesota Custom Built Saunas
(651) 769-5015
North Branch, MN
Barrel Sauna Features
- Unique Modified Barrel Sauna Construction with Insulated Roof
- Adjustable Stainless Steel Compression Straps
- 6 or 8kW Finnish Electric Sauna Heater with Rocks
- Selected Knotty Western Red Cedar
- Side Wall Construction with Ball & Socket Joints
- End Wall Construction with Tongue & Groove
- Walls and roof staves are fastened to each other with 6” screws.
- Decorative Cedar Leaf-Fascia
- Cedar Duck Boards
- Upper and two lower White Cedar Sauna Benches & Backrests (other layout options, also)
- Sauna Base Constructed of Treated Wood with Composite Floor and Built-in Skids
- Sauna Accessories: 2 headrests, wooden bucket, brush, ladle & thermometer
Available Barrel Sauna options include
- Changing room
- Choice of wood, gas, or electric stoves (electric being standard)
- 36" Porch with Cedar Benches



“I wish I would have seen yours before I bought theirs.”
-- Dave N., Kost, MN
Cedar Barrel Sauna
Barrel Saunas are available in 4 and 6–7 person seating starting at $5,100.
NorSauna's Cedar Barrel Sauna offers the sauna in a form that will bring uniqueness and beauty to any setting. Built more like a building than a barrel, one can imagine this sauna design virtually anywhere. Add customization to this sauna model's basic form, produced by your imagination, and you will have the exact, high quality, and personalized sauna that will provide you with years of pleasurable sauna experience...just your way!
We believe our Cedar Barrel Sauna design is not only a guaranteed head-turner, it is also a more practical and an outright smarter choice. Compare NorSauna’s common sense features with any other barrel sauna style out there. We receive many compliments on our details, such as decorative wooden leaf-fascia and hinge designs, and overall appearance with integrating the roof, porch, and outside benches with the shape of this Barrel Sauna model. It’s a beauty!
NorSauna’s Cedar Barrel Sauna roofing system not only looks great, it will protect your investment for many years. Why consider an outdoor sauna with a roof protected only by a thin coat of stain? Perhaps you know of cedar decks, even though stained periodically, eventually needing replacement. The constant thaw-freeze-thaw-freeze cycle in our harsher climates can lead to early structural damage to exposed wood. Over time, this would primarily effect just the upper roof staves of traditional cooperage constructed Barrel Saunas, where the surface is flatter, and more adversely effected from sunlight and the elements. Our construction sauna design and techniques allow us to incorporate an insulated roof, not an added pitched roof which looks out of place. We apply an aluminum foil vapor barrier and add fiberglass insulation, so as to more effectively hold heat in, obtain higher temperatures quicker, and maintain these temperatures better, especially in colder temperatures.
Our Barrel Sauna model is roomier with a 7-foot diameter, which allows us to offer a layout with one high and two low white cedar benches. Other Barrel Saunas usually offer only two side benches. A high bench offers you the option of sitting in the hottest area of the sauna. You would need to heat the sauna longer and hotter with other Barrel Saunas having only a design for lower benches so as to gain higher temperatures at the lower bench level. Our better-designed NorSauna Barrel Sauna utilizes otherwise wasted heating.
Another advantage of this Barrel Sauna model layout is the 6 or 8kW electric heater located on the end wall next to the door, out of way of seating. Because of its circular shape, you are not heating the corner areas of a Barrel Sauna as in a rectangular shaped sauna. This concentrates the heat more in the middle of the hot room versus dispersing it to sides, also.
Our Barrel Sauna model actually has an attached treated wood base with built-in skids (NOT A CRADLE) and waterproof tongue and groove flooring. This makes moving this model more portable than other saunas, and gives you the option of utilizing it in more than one location. An RV type hook-up at both locations is all you need for year-round relaxation.
NorSauna's Cedar Barrel Sauna Prices
| Size | Hot Rm Only |
Hot Rm w/ Porch |
Dressing Room |
Dressing Rm & Porch |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Person Barrel Sauna |
4'6" x 7' x 6'6” | $5,100 | $5,850 | $6,750 | $7,650 |
| 6 - 7 Person Barrel Sauna |
6’6" x 7' x6’6” | $5,850 | $6,450 | $7,350 | $8,250 |
Shipping costs are determined on an individual basis.
"There is no comparison in quality."
-- Ken B., Hastings MN