The Review of Outdoor Saunas 2020 – Prices

No big decision is taken without preparation and time spent looking for the best offer. An outdoor sauna is not an everyday purchase, therefore a lot of things have to be taken into consideration, and the price is one of them. In order to help you understand the prices going on the market right now, at the beginning of 2018, we decided to do a little comparison of the most similar product that we found -outdoor barrel sauna. Take a look at this table, and let’s discuss it below.

Barrel sauna

	TimberIN	Royal Tubs
Country	Lithuania	United Kingdom
Wood type	Spruce	Spruce
Length	300cm	300cm
External diameter	220cm	220cm
People capacity	4-6 people	4-6 people
Oven	Electric heater “Harvia VEGA”	HARVIA ELECTRIC (model not indicated)
	Or wood burning	Or wood burning
Window	A small window in the back	Two small windows in the back
Dressing room/porch	1m porch included in total sauna`s length	2m porch included in total sauna`s length
Door	Wooden door with window	Wooden door with window
Wood treatment	Oiled if assembled	Oiled
Chimney	If wood burning oven	If wood burning oven
Wooden fence in front of the heater	+	x
Decorative cornice	+	+
Stainless steel rings	+	+
Shipping unassembled	+	x
Shipping assembled	+	+
Total	3290€ (VAT incl.) + shipping	5144€ (VAT incl.)+ shipping

As you can see there are some differences in the configuration as well as in the price. As not all of the compared companies deliver unassembled outside saunas, we took the assembled sauna as an example, so the final calculated price is for the already built outdoor barrel sauna. However, it is necessary to mention that two companies, TimberIN and Garden wellness 24, offer sauna as a kit, flat packed which, most of the time, is less expensive.  We tried to make the configuration as similar as possible, however, Sauna&Badetonne produce saunas only from thermowood, Garden wellness 24 only from spruce, and even though TimberIN and Royal Tubs have both and more, we had to select one of them, to be able to compare the prices. As we have chosen spruce, the least expensive variant, please note that saunas from thermowood are more expensive, so the comparison is not that accurate. Almost all of the compared outdoor barrel saunas are of the same size, length, and diameter, only Sauna&Badetonne offers a little bit smaller one. All companies offer electric and wood-burning heaters, small windows at the back and a porch. However, the size of the porch is different, for example, Royal Tubs provides a two meters porch option, but as in all cases, the porch’s length is included in the total length. Two meters porch or changing room usually is recommended for bigger, 4 or 5 meters saunas, but there was no 1-meter option on the website. For a 3 meters sauna, 1 meter of changing room or terrace is definitely enough. Three out of four companies apply the wood treatment, whereas Garden wellness 24 does not have this option, or at least it cannot be chosen on the website when selecting the features. Usually, shipping is calculated separately for the exact location, and only Sauna&Badetonne has a precise price for the whole United Kingdom.

	Sauna&Badetonne	Garden wellness 24
Country	Estonia	Lithuania
Wood type	Thermowood	Spruce
Length	274cm	300cm
External diameter	205cm	220cm
People capacity	4-6 people	4-6 people
Oven	Harvia Moderna V60E electric heater incl. remote control	Electric heater “Harvia VEGA”
	Or wood burning	Or wood burning
Window	(If ordered) a small window in the back	A small window in the back.
Dressing room/porch	Ca 75cm porch included	Porch included, length not identified
Door	Wooden door with window	Wooden door with window
Wood treatment	Oiled	-
Chimney	If wood burning oven	If wood burning oven
Wooden fence in front of the heater	x	+
Decorative cornice	x	+
Stainless steel rings	+	+
Shipping unassembled	x	+
Shipping assembled	+	+
Total	4045€ (VAT incl.) + Shipping to UK 460 €	3589€ (VAT incl.) + shipping

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