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Almost Heaven Oasis Sauna: Assembly

I first flipped on the 30A (and 20A) breaker in our garage, followed by the non-fused disconnect switch attached to our deck fascia, then turned the dial on the Harvia 6kw KIP heater  that came with our Almost Heaven Oasis 3-person sauna to the reassuring (according to the manual) clunk  as I passed "1." Immediately, I felt heat. After a whole lot of work... We. Had. Heat. Since first having the conversation about did we want a sauna back in July, this project required two not insignificant steps: Roughing in and trenching the electrical conduit through the garage and backyard to the final location of the sauna Tearing up 1/3 of our backyard , grading it, building a retaining wall, building forms and pouring about two-and-a-half metric tons of concrete, then filling it all in with pea gravel Entirely ourselves. Well, our buddy Tony came and hauled a pallet's worth of concrete to our job site, also not insignificant. Both of which steps made building the sauna seem like ...

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