SaunaLife G11 | Outdoor Sauna with Changing Room · 8-Person
An 8-person outdoor sauna suite with a full changing room, covered porch, and Thermo-Spruce construction built to outlast the elements.
In stock
Estimated delivery
14–22 days after you order
Stock checked Oct 9, 2026
- Two rooms: 8-person sauna + dedicated changing room.
- Thermo-Spruce outlasts cedar by up to 2× outdoors.
- Heater sold separately: choose electric or wood-fired to fit your setup.
- Description
- What's Included?
- Specifications
- Installation & Care
- Shipping
- Documents
- Warranty
What the SaunaLife G11 is
The SaunaLife G11 is a two-room outdoor sauna suite supplied as a kit. Under one shingled barrel roof it holds a sauna room seating up to eight on two tiers and, beside it, an equally sized lounge and changing room, separated by a partition wall with a tempered bronze glass door. A covered porch runs across the rounded front facade with a table, benches and firewood storage. The structure measures roughly 161" wide by 118" deep by 98" high and ships at a crated 3,196 lb. The heater is chosen separately, and the G11 takes either an electric heater or a wood-burning stove.
Two rooms, and what each one is for
The G11's layout is what separates it from a single-room barrel sauna: you are not changing, cooling down and storing your things in the hot room. The sauna room holds the two-tier Thermo-Aspen benching and the heater, and SaunaLife rates it at about 300 cubic feet. The second room, the same size, is a lounge and dressing room with its own seating and a rectangular window at the back, reached through the lockable exterior door in the facade. Because the two rooms are separated by a glazed partition rather than an exterior wall, the changing room stays sheltered but is not itself heated.
The facade and the porch
The G11's front is a flat rounded facade rather than the open end of a barrel. It carries a 35-inch round window, a lockable spruce laminated exterior door with three decorative round windows set into it, and a covered porch 22" deep under the roof overhang. The porch is furnished from the kit: a table and benches for cooling off between sessions, and a second table with open firewood storage beneath it — which is where the wood-burning option starts to make sense.
Materials and construction
The G11 is built from full-length thermo-treated spruce staves 1.65" thick, drawn together by stainless steel barrel bands 1-7/8" wide and 1/8" thick. The roof is finished with black bitumen shingles over roll-on underlayment, both supplied. Benches and backrests in the sauna room are knot-free Thermo-Aspen 1.1" thick over a 0.7" floor grid; the front-room benches are 1" thick and the porch benches and table 1.1". Thermally modified spruce is more dimensionally stable and more resistant to decay than untreated softwood; SaunaLife's own documents still describe surface cracking and moderate movement as normal for wood in a sauna, and require the timber to be treated (see Installation & Care).
Included in the G11 kit
- Full-length thermo-spruce staves, 1.65" thick, plus two spare staves
- Stainless steel barrel bands, 1-7/8" wide × 1/8" thick
- Two-tier Thermo-Aspen sauna benches and backrests, 1.1" thick, knot-free
- Front-room bench seating, 1" thick
- Porch benches and table, 1.1" thick
- Sauna room floor grid, 0.7" thick
- Tempered bronze glass interior door, 0.31" glass, 28" × 74"
- Lockable spruce laminated exterior door with three round windows, 28" × 74"
- Round facade window, 35" diameter
- Openable rear window, 15" × 26"
- Black roof shingles and roll-on underlayment kit
- Spruce cradles and spruce fascia board
- Air intake and exhaust vents with their covers
- Fastener kit and installation instructions
Not included — ordered or arranged separately
- The heater. An electric sauna heater and control unit, or a wood-burning sauna stove with its chimney and floor protection. Choose a package in the configurator above.
- Sauna stones, unless the heater package you choose includes them.
- Lighting. The G11's lighting is an optional package, not part of the kit — see below.
- The foundation. A level, load-bearing pad has to be ready before delivery.
- Electrical supply and installation. SaunaLife requires a qualified specialist for all electrical work, including installing an electric heater.
- Exterior wood preservative, required immediately after assembly.
- A forklift or crane and an operator to unload at delivery.
What the optional lighting package adds
If you add the lighting package to the G11, it brings a white exterior LED sconce that mounts beside the front door to light the entrance and porch, indirect white lighting behind and under the sauna bench, and LED valance lights on each side of the partition wall that switch between white and colour. All of it is dimmable and runs from one handheld remote with a wall mount. Without the package the G11 has no lighting of its own.
SaunaLife G11 specifications
| Model | Garden-Series G11 (SL-MODELG11) |
|---|---|
| Capacity | Up to 8 people in the sauna room, plus seating in the changing room |
| Layout | Two equally sized rooms side by side — sauna room and lounge/changing room — plus a covered porch |
| Sauna type | Traditional, outdoor; electric heater or wood-burning stove, selected separately |
| Exterior dimensions | Approximately 161" W × 118" D × 98" H, porch included |
| Base frame footprint | 123" × 109.7" — the rectangle the foundation has to carry |
| Sauna room volume | About 300 cu ft, as rated by SaunaLife — the figure to size a heater against |
| Porch | 22" deep, across the front facade, under the roof overhang |
| Benches | Two tiers of Thermo-Aspen in the sauna room, upper at 25.7" and lower at 11.4" above the floor |
| Stave thickness | 1.65" full-length Thermo-Spruce |
| Barrel bands | Stainless steel, 1-7/8" wide × 1/8" thick |
| Roof | Black bitumen shingles over roll-on underlayment, both included |
| Exterior door | 28" × 74", spruce laminated frame, lockable, with three round windows |
| Interior door | 28" × 74", 0.31" tempered bronze glass, between changing room and sauna |
| Windows | 35" round window in the facade; 15" × 26" rear window, openable |
| Ventilation | Vent holes 4.33" in diameter, drilled during assembly, with the supplied upper and lower covers; the rear window also opens |
| Lighting | Optional package; not included in the base kit |
| Shipping weight | 3,196 lb |
| Packaged (shipping) dimensions | 197" L × 47" D × 47" H |
| Heater | Not included; electric heater or wood-burning stove selected separately |
| Warranty | SaunaLife limited warranty, five years residential (Rev 260915) |
SaunaLife's G11 drawings
These are SaunaLife's own dimensional renders for the G11, reproduced as supplied. Read them alongside the table above; the exterior figures in the table are taken from them.
What installing the SaunaLife G11 involves
Site and foundation
The G11 sits on a base frame that lays out to 123" by 109.7", and that rectangle is what the foundation has to carry — level, stable and squared, which the manual has you confirm by checking the diagonals are equal before anything goes on top of it. The barrel's curved sides and the roof overhang extend past the frame, so plan the clear area around the roughly 161" by 118" exterior, and leave the approach to the front facade open: the exterior door, the porch furniture and the firewood store are all on that face.
Assembly
SaunaLife supplies the G11 as a two-person, two-day DIY kit. It is a genuine build rather than a flat-pack: the staves are raised in rows and drawn together with steel barrel bands that have to be tightened with a wrench and handled with gloves, the ceiling boards are measured, cut to length and glued before being tapped home with a rubber mallet, the window opening is marked and cut with 0.39" of clearance added on each side, ventilation holes are drilled, and the shingles are cut and nailed from the ridge down. Plan for a saw, a drill/driver, a rubber mallet, a wrench and gloves at minimum, and read the whole manual before the first stave goes down — several steps depend on decisions made earlier.
Heating: electric or wood-fired
The G11 is sold without a heater and takes either kind. The sauna room is rated at about 300 cubic feet, which is the number to size against, and the packages offered on this page cover a 9 kW electric heater, a 10.5 kW electric heater and a wood-burning stove kit with chimney, sheath, floor protection and stones; the Harvia Cilindro 9 kW package is the one marked Recommended in the configurator above. If you go wood-fired, the porch's firewood store is already built into the kit. If you go electric, SaunaLife requires all electrical work, including installing the heater, to be carried out by a qualified specialist, so budget for a licensed electrician alongside the heater. Either way, follow the heater manufacturer's own manual for clearances, chimney routing and flue protection.
Caring for the G11
SaunaLife requires the wooden parts of the G11 to be treated with a suitable wood preservative immediately after assembly, and states that the manufacturer is not responsible for products damaged by untreated wood. Re-treat at least once a year, more often with heavy use, and do not use paint or varnish, because the wood needs to breathe. Inside, wipe the benches with a clean damp cloth after each session, ventilate until the surfaces are dry, and use seating pads or a towel on the bench. Do not pressure wash the timber or clean it with a running stream of water. SaunaLife's own documents are explicit that temperature and humidity swings can make a wood surface crack or warp, and that the timber nearest the steam may darken over time; both are normal and neither is a defect.
How is the SaunaLife G11 delivered?
The SaunaLife G11 ships by LTL freight. The listed shipping weight is 3,196 lb crated, and delivery is curbside with the shipment lowered to ground level on a pallet. A delivery appointment is required. Buyers should plan how the sauna components will move from the curb to the prepared installation area before the truck arrives. The G11 ships in a single long crate, so check that the route to the install area can take its length before delivery day.
| Freight type | Freight truck |
|---|---|
| Delivery point | Curbside — forklift or crane required to unload |
| Listed shipping weight | 3,196 lb crated |
| Crate dimensions | 197" L × 47" D × 47" H |
| Contiguous-US shipping shown on page | $1,990 |
| Appointment | Required |
| Freight protection | Full-value, included on every Topture freight order |
The carrier will reach out to book the appointment once the shipment arrives at their local terminal, and someone needs to be there to inspect and sign for it. The sauna arrives protected on a wooden pallet, sometimes encased in wood.
Inspect and photograph the shipment before you start assembly. SaunaLife's warranty does not cover damage — transport damage included — that would have been detectable by visual inspection before installation, so documenting it at delivery is what keeps both the freight claim and the warranty open.
View the SaunaLife G11 installation guide — the full kit contents list, the base frame layout with its dimensions, step-by-step wall, door, window, bench, porch and roof assembly, and the shingle and underlayment instructions.
