03/09/2026
Details matter. But walls are hardly a detail.
Whether it is your house or a sauna you are considering buying, how the walls are built and what they are made of is fundamental.
Yet when choosing an outdoor sauna, it is easy to focus on design, size, heater and price. The construction itself may receive much less attention.
So it is worth knowing how your sauna is actually built.
In our latest blog, we compare four of the most common construction methods used for freestanding garden and backyard saunas, from DIY kits and flat-packs to fully assembled saunas:
• lightweight timber
• stick-frame
• CLT
• log construction
Two saunas that look quite similar can be built in very different ways, and the materials and construction method can make a significant difference to how the sauna performs, ages and feels to use.
Read the full comparison on our website (hetkisauna.com).
📷 The signature dovetail corner joint of a Hetki log sauna.