Video Transcript (AI Generated)
So, I’ve got to admit, I’m not a huge fan of putting these portable saunas together.
For one thing, it’s fairly cumbersome.
And for another, it just smells like plastic.
Like this is PVC, you can smell the rubber in there.
Just not a huge fan of that.
They’re kind of a pain in the ass to put together.
I’m really not super thrilled with how it’s going, I guess you could say.
But I’m just tired of testing portable saunas and them either being filled with crap or they’re just not what they say they are.
Every single time they say they’re low EMF.
I mean I’ve got the Relax sauna right here, I’ve got the other sauna dome behind me that I just finished up, and it’s just like, one right after the other.
It doesn’t matter which one it is.
This is a steam sauna, so hopefully it’ll be a little bit better because it’ll keep the heater away from you, so the EMF should be really good.
However, it’s going to be a trade-off.
I mean, you’re going to have to, and this is wrong again.
This is such a pain in the ass to put these fucking things together.
The instructions suck, so it’s not just me.
This is the instructions.
So it doesn’t tell you anything about the labeled pieces.
So the pieces are labeled, but they don’t tell you which order they go.
So now you see why I’m getting so frustrated with putting it together, because not only does it smell like crap while I’m doing it, it’s just all the way around not the best way to go.
I mean, these saunas are hard for me to get into.
Every single time, they’re just not.
Everyone says, “Oh yeah, but they’re portable.
You can do this and you can do that.”
But dude, you can’t even sit in the thing and relax because you’re crouched down.
I mean, it’s fine if you’re a small person or whatever, but anyway.
This is what I go through testing these things.
I cannot figure out where these two pieces go.
Of course, they wouldn’t just tell you.
That would make it too easy.
Much too easy.
Well, I don’t know.
Who knows?
Okay.
This, obviously, goes here.
And maybe these go like that.
That’s not what the picture looks like, but it sure does look like it fits better.
Much better.
I don’t even think you guys can see this.
No, you can’t.
I need to pan you up here.
There you go.
Disaster of a sauna room.
Can’t wait till this stuff is done.
I really don’t need these.
I mean, there’s so many good sauna solutions that we’ve got now that are all verified.
There’s really no reason to even do this.
I was just doing this to be nice for somebody.
I’ve had a bunch of people ask me about portable saunas.
Still haven’t found a good solution.
Had a couple people, had somebody from YouTube and the blog ask last week about these steam ones.
I would have never, I’ve never really given them a legitimate shot because, as you can tell, it’s like a rubber vinyl, it’s like a raincoat.
You know when you take a raincoat or a shower curtain out of a wrapper, you got to air it out?
Well, that’s pretty much what this smells like.
For me, I’m not really interested in using something like this, but I understand.
Fucking thing.
PVC pipes.
I need to get the glue out, huh?
I’m not really interested in using something like this, but I understand.
I moved to this giant place from a, let’s see, I don’t know what the front and back is.
I think that’s the back.
I moved to this giant place from a studio apartment, so I know what it’s like to have to work with a small space where you can’t fit a sauna or not be able to afford a large sauna.
So, I will continue to try to find other solutions for people that are in that position or just need to use a portable sauna for six months or so until they can afford something else, get space for something else, or do whatever it is that they need to do.
Come on, baby.
Get over there.
Get over there.
This thing’s really giving me trouble.
I don’t know why.
They always do.
These portables love to give me a hard time.
So this time, I thought I’d show you guys what it’s like to put one together and test it all the way through.
Usually, people get mad because videos are so long when I do this, so I don’t really do them anymore.
They don’t show me screwing around with them for the first time or whatever.
But I thought for this one, okay, I either did something wrong or something.
I hate these things.
All right.
Camera’s still rolling.
We got…
I don’t know where these pieces go, guys.
I mean, obviously, I’m doing something wrong.
It’s got to be these pieces that I put in extra on the back, but it just didn’t seem right without them.
I guess, I mean, I don’t know.
My expectations might be a little high too for…
I think this thing was like $100 or $200.
So my build quality expectations might be a little high for something in this price range.
But, I mean, they could at least have better instructions or, you know, I don’t know, something.
But that’s me.
All right.
That’s obviously where I went wrong.
One thing I didn’t think about, because there’s only one other piece to this, is that, shit, the damn thing doesn’t come with a stool.
That’s a problem.
Well, maybe I can take the one out of the Relax sauna and get it in there.
I got something to sit on.
And just so, I mean, I hope no one will even ask, because if you’re asking about VOC testing in a portable sauna like this, I probably just won’t even answer you.
I mean, you shouldn’t even be asking about VOC testing for something that’s made out of a vinyl or rubber type material and it’s just filled with cloth and everything else and PVC frame.
So if you’re looking for a portable sauna, I mean, I would just assume that you’re not concerned with VOCs at all, because those two things don’t really, you know, go together.
Which is fine.
It doesn’t matter.
That is the tube.
Okay.
Whoa.
What did I do?
Where’d that come from?
Oh.
What the heck, man?
I don’t know how this little guy works.
Okay.
Put that on there.
Get a little steam guy there.
Okay.
I’m going to go fill this up with water and I’ll be right back.
Actually, does it say anything about that?
Fill it up with water?
There’s got to be other instructions.
These are like the worst instructions you could ever create.
Okay.
All right.
Put some water in there.
Water?
I don’t even talk like that, but it’s funny.
We’ve got the water in there.
Let’s go ahead and get it hooked up around the back.
Now, obviously, if you’re looking for a portable sauna or a steam sauna, you understand that there’s pros and cons and all, you know, you already understand what you’re getting into.
Because really, you shouldn’t put chlorinated water in one of these things.
Ideally, that’s not a good idea.
Oh, shit.
I’m going to make it a mess.
Put it on 60.
Work.
That little power light’s not lit up, though.
Well, okay.
I don’t really know what to expect from this.
I don’t really know how it’s going to work.
All I know is if it starts steaming…
Oh, I’ve got to move it over.
I hear it.
It’s starting to steam.
Okay.
Yeah, there’s about 10 milligauss.
Let’s keep the cord away.
Let’s keep all the cords away.
I would say that this is a low-emission solution.
Because you can keep the steam heater…
Yeah, we’ve got about 0.5 milligauss, maybe.
It’s more like 0.3 of an increase.
So while this is a low-emf solution, it’s probably a toxic hell solution.
Anyway, what I was saying earlier is I’m not a proponent of steam saunas.
If you are going to be using a steam sauna, please don’t ask me about VOCs or anything like that.
I mean, technically, you would want to be using filtered or distilled water.
If you’re going to be steaming, you really don’t want to use chlorinated water.
It’s just not conducive to…
I don’t know what’s going on here.
We’re just going to have to wait, I guess.
We’re just going to have to wait to have some steam going.
I can hear it, though.
It’s building.
I either put this together wrong or something, because…
I mean, obviously, this chair is a lot bigger than you’re supposed to put in there.
It’s not really built for it.
Now you see why I couldn’t test the portable saunas a few months ago.
I can barely get in them now.
I can’t imagine using something like this every day.
This would be a little bit nuts.
I don’t know if the camera can actually see me or not.
I have no idea how to get it.
All right.
Infrared sauna, man.
Back again.
Craziness.
Oh, yes.
All right.
Woo-hoo!
Ah!
That’ll be the YouTube thumbnail.
Come on, now.
I’m going to fix my tucks.
There we go.
Awesome sauna.
All right, let me reach back and see.
Simon says, “Steam.”
I can hear it.
I’m not really feeling any steam yet.
I think these do work.
They smell like shit.
I mean, they smell awful.
It smells like a shower curtain.
I’m pretty sure these will work.
It probably will make you sweat.
And it is low EMF, because the actual steam generator is not anywhere close to you.
I mean, an infrared sauna is going to work better.
We probably have a little bit of sweat going already.
I have no idea how long this thing takes to heat up.
I don’t know if I’ll sit through it, because I’m kind of bored already and got other things to do.
But I can hear the steam building.
I just can’t get past the smell.
Anyway, I hope this was helpful for somebody.
I don’t know if this is going to be a–oh, there we go.
Isn’t that some heat?
No, no steam.
It’s just heat for me.
I don’t know if this is a good fit for anybody.
I just ordered one to help someone, because I kept getting questions about, “Are the steam saunas low EMF?”
I didn’t know, so now we know for sure.
Most steam saunas are probably low EMF.
Now, if this was a–oh, boy.
I’m going to crush this thing.
It just came apart.
Now, if this was a wooden steam sauna with a giant 220-powered heater sitting on the wall, and you sat next to that, just because it’s steam doesn’t mean it’s low EMF.
So take that with a grain of salt.
Well, I’ll just take you back here, because I don’t really know what’s going on.
I don’t really know how long this is going to take.
I’m used to infrared.
I like infrared.
But as you can tell, I’ll be quiet.
It’s making noise.
The light is on.
We’ll probably have to wait a while to get steam.
I don’t see any steam coming out yet.
But hopefully when it does, we’ll have some sweating.
So I totally screwed up.
I was quite busy unloading camera files, and I forgot all about the steam sauna.
So I guess it ran for its 60-minute timer thing.
Let’s see.
Hopefully it’s okay to open this.
A little bit of water left in there.
And let’s see if it actually made–oh, wow.
So that is covered.
Oh, crap.
I don’t know how I feel about that.
Generally, I do not like to bring moisture–oh, it’s the whole thing.
Duh.
I guess it was going to be steam.
I don’t know how I feel about that.
I guess I should get that off the carpet as quickly as possible.
Crap.
The floor is fine.
Sorry, guys.
I didn’t know this was going to be like this.
I didn’t really intend on–okay, so it’s not wet.
That’ll ruin the hardware floors, too.
I didn’t really intend on forgetting about it.
I was just going to let it preheat.
But I guess it did make steam.
It is completely soaked and saturated.
Yeah.
I don’t really know what to say.
Maybe this is what some of you are looking for.
This is not my thing.
This will be a little bit for me to clean up.
Probably not something I would use but hopefully it helps somebody out there that requested it