Radiant Health Home Sauna Installation & Assembly Guide: wondering how hard it is to install your home sauna? In this tutorial, I walk you through what it’s like to receive your sauna, set it up, and use it for the first time. This model is a Radiant Health E-2H 2 person infrared sauna model. The steps to install it are the same for 1 person, 2 person, and 3 person models, including these model numbers:
Radiant Health E-1H
Radiant Health E-2H
Radiant Health E-3H
Radiant Health E-4H (this model is slightly different with opposing benches)
Corner models (separate installation video)
Video Transcript (AI Generated)
Hey guys, welcome to today’s tutorial.
Today’s infrared sauna assembly guide is on radiant health saunas.
Now, I wanted to do this guide because this is absolutely, without a doubt, the easiest sauna that I have ever put together.
One of the biggest apprehensions that people always ask me about when they call in and say, “Hey Matt, is this the right sauna for us?”
or they’re trying to figure out the electrical requirements or things like that is, they’re really concerned with, “What’s it going to be like to receive this sauna?”
You know, “Is it something that I can do?”
“How many people is it going to take?”
“Are we going to have to hire somebody?”
And so, some saunas are pretty complicated to put together, especially the ones with corner glass on the front or the angled glass.
Some of the saunas have a door in the front, not radiant health obviously.
And then there will be two angled pieces on the sides and then it connects to the walls.
Some of that stuff can be really cumbersome to assemble or put together.
And I’m really excited to share this with you because this is the easiest sauna that I’ve ever put together.
Out of all the saunas that I’ve dealt with, this one by far takes the cake.
Some of it has to do with just the way the sauna is designed.
For example, the door comes pre-mounted in the front wall assembly.
So literally, you put the floor down, you put the back up.
You put the two sides on and you set the front, the whole front wall assembly with the door, the glass, everything all in it, right in there.
What a lot of sauna companies don’t do is have all that stuff pre-hung.
They won’t have the door pre-hung, the glass for the window won’t be pre-installed.
All that stuff’s pre-installed.
So it literally just snaps into place.
You put the roof on, you do your two connections and you’re done.
So with that said, let’s get right into the video.
I want to let you know about four things though before we start.
Please keep in mind that I have a ton of experience assembling a lot of different saunas.
So always follow the manufacturer directions.
Every once in a while, you’ll see me do something in the video that really isn’t like manufacturer approved, right?
So you always want to follow the instructions that come with your sauna.
You always want to keep in mind that putting together a sauna is really a two-person or more job.
A lot of the times you’ll see me do the instructional videos and it’s just me.
I don’t have a helper or anything like that.
Be really careful.
You know, use your head.
Don’t put yourself in a situation where you’ve got a glass door kind of teeter-tottering and there’s no one else there to give you a helping hand.
It’s not a good idea if you haven’t done this before.
But two people can easily put this sauna together in less than an hour.
So I’m going to take you through, but I just wanted to point out that, you know, everything that I do is not necessarily the way that the manufacturers tell you to do it.
So always follow the instructions.
For example, when you put the roof on, you might want to use spacer blocks and things like that.
I don’t personally do that, which you’ll see in the video.
So that would not be recommended by the companies themselves.
So just keep that in mind.
Always follow the instructions.
One more thing before we get started.
Before I roll the footage that shows me receiving the pallet from the box truck and the guys rolling it, the pallet, into the garage and starting to undo the packaging for the Radiant Health sauna, I wanted to point out that you might hear me say things in some of the installation footage that was recorded of me receiving the sauna that was months and months and months ago.
It is now August of 2019.
Some of this footage was from January and February of 2019.
But I want you guys to know the reason that it takes so long to do these kinds of things is because I will not do a formal or finalized product review or an installation guide or anything like that for any sauna that I haven’t personally vetted for months and months and months.
So if you hear me say anything funny like, “Now that the sauna is assembled, we’re going to test it for EMFs” or something like that, please keep in mind, that is not current date.
It’s old footage, but that’s the only footage that I had to show you guys how to put it together.
So without further ado, let’s get started for the second time.
Alright guys, welcome to the Radiant Health installation video.
Here I’m going to walk you through the exact step-by-step instructions to receive your sauna.
So the guys just left with the box truck and they dropped this off with the pallet jack.
This particular condo that I’m living in has a one-car garage.
If you’re in an apartment, I would suggest just having them drop this pallet in the space closest to the stairs or the door where you’re going to enter.
And if you’re in a house with a garage, obviously you want to do exactly what I’m doing here.
Now I’m pulling the boxes off one by one, and I’m opening them up.
And I’m going to take each piece of the sauna out and just lean it up against the wall.
Now I’ve got a little bit of distance to travel to carry these pieces from the garage into the house.
So what I recommend doing is not taking the pallet, not taking the boxes, not taking any of the packaging material into the house.
It doesn’t matter if you’re in a single-family home, in an apartment, or a high-rise.
It doesn’t matter.
In this particular instance, what you can’t see off-camera is that I have to carry these things in an elevator.
So all kinds of installations can be done.
Basically, I’m just going through and unpackaging the panels.
And I’m stacking them up against the wall.
And kind of, since I’m a little bit limited on space, I’m sort of cleaning up each box as we go, so I don’t get too cluttered in there, and I can lay each box down.
So I lay the boxes on their side, and then I cut the tape on the bottom.
And then I lay them down, take the lid off.
And then I’m taking each piece out, like you can see there.
And I’m very careful.
You know, I use some of the styrofoam pieces on the concrete.
If you’re going to lean them up against the wall, you can use some of the leftover styrofoam to kind of, you know, protect the pieces.
The main piece that you really want to be careful with is this one.
Many of the pieces that have the door attached, the door is going to be taped so it doesn’t just swing open wildly.
But you still want to take extra care and be really careful with that one.
You really need two people to–I mean, I know you see me dragging these boxes around and things.
One person can do it.
But when it goes to the actual assembly, you want two people to just steady things and make it easier.
So I recommend taking all the parts out, outside.
Get rid of all the packaging material.
Every once in a while, there can be some dirt or some sawdust or, you know, some things on some of this stuff, either from the delivery truck or the pallet itself or whatever.
So I recommend not taking that stuff inside if you can help it.
This is my preferred method of, you know, unboxing the saunas and prepping them for install.
There can be some, you know, dust and things like that.
But I’ll show you how to vacuum them out or wipe them down at the very end.
And let’s see.
What’s next?
So I’m just going through here and taking all the small pieces and stacking those separately.
I’m trying to clean up as I go to get rid of, you know, some of the mess.
It’s pretty simple to get rid of this stuff.
And that’s pretty much it.
You can see in the back of the garage that all the wall panels are stacked up.
We’re going to start with those.
And then I’ll go through in sequence, start to finish, exactly how to lay them down inside.
So now you can see I’m prepping the room.
I actually made a mistake here and I brought the door in and put it in the wrong orientation.
Typically you want to bring the parts in and lay them out exactly how you want to position the sauna.
So in this particular shot, I’m going to stop the frame right here.
The poster on the dock, lake poster on the wall there, that’s going to be my left-hand side of the sauna.
And I should have not placed this glass door panel to the right.
It really should just be in the front and you’ll see me move it in a second.
Once I realized my mistake.
Because what you want to do is you want to place the floor down, right?
And you want to orient it exactly where the sauna is going to go, especially if it’s on carpet.
If it is on tile, you can slide this relatively easily.
But you really want to have it as close to its final resting place as possible.
Now the one thing about the Radiant Health sauna that is super advantageous over a lot of other saunas is that there are no buckles on the outside of the sauna.
So generally, you cannot put a sauna together really close to a corner that has buckles.
But with the Radiant Health sauna, what makes it so nice is it has a slip latch system built into the walls that’s recessed.
So you can position the floor right next to the corner, nice and tight where you want it to be.
And it’s very easy to put the sauna together.
So in this, I’m doing exactly what I’m telling you to do.
You want to have the left wall up against the left wall, if that makes sense.
You want to position the right wall on the right-hand side so it’s easy to access and you know what is the front, what is the back.
It’s very easy because the heaters were always– these lower heaters will always be towards the front.
And the bench cutout will always be towards the back.
And then you’re going to start with the back panel.
After you have the floor positioned exactly where you want it, you’re going to put the back panel in place.
And then you’re going to start with the right or the left.
I’m starting with the right right here.
And they just kind of slip together.
You can kind of see how they fit.
Now it’s a good idea to definitely have two people.
Like I keep saying, you’re seeing this– me doing this by myself, but I don’t recommend that.
It can be done, obviously.
But, you know, I’ve had a lot of experience doing this.
And it’s much easier if you have one person study one panel and then you’re working with the other panel to get them latched together.
Then I go ahead and repeat the process on the left-hand side and get those walls done there.
And then I just take you in for a little zoom-in shot.
And it’s very simple.
Everything is labeled.
So it’s basically just connecting A to A, B to B, C to C, D to D.
And it’s extremely, extremely straightforward.
There is nothing that you can mess up here.
The connectors can’t really be swapped out.
Even when we get to the roof, it’s really simple.
You’re just connecting 1 to 1, 2 to 2, so on and so forth.
And we repeat the process.
I take the camera in to zoom in just a little bit just to kind of show you guys what the connectors look like.
And we go through here and just connect these.
And then a really cool feature of the Radiant Health, which I’m about to show here, I went through the extra effort of putting some lights in the sauna so that I could show you this.
And now I’m going to play this clip for you.
I really like this.
Almost every single infrared sauna I’ve ever used, if you push out on the sidewall, there’s always flex.
And those buckles, even though I hate buckles, I really love to see them in this sauna because it really just tightens everything.
So what I’m talking about here is the majority of infrared saunas, if you push out on the sidewalls from the inside, there isn’t anything that attaches the sidewall to the actual bench in a lot of the saunas.
So they kind of bow out.
And what I’m talking about here, even a few people have commented on some of the YouTube videos, and they said, “Hey, Matt, I thought you said that a Radiant Health doesn’t come with buckles.”
But then here I am saying buckles on the inside of the seat.
It’s only internal.
There are no external buckles like on the cheaper-made saunas.
But this adds a lot of rigidity and functional strength to the sauna.
And it also improves the fit and finish because things don’t bow and flex like they normally do.
A lot of the saunas are made from really thin wood, and they just don’t have a very firm feel.
And this really helps with that.
And I think I was just trying to point that out for folks.
I’m carrying in the front wall now, and it really just slides into place.
And once it slides into place, you’re going to want to go ahead and install the handle so that you can operate the door.
And one thing about this sauna is it has a really, really, really nice door handle.
And the door itself, the hinges are all top quality.
It seems silly to even mention this, but it’s pretty simple to install.
You basically just thread one side through, and you put the locking Allen nuts on the other side, and you’re off and running.
That’s pretty much it.
The final step is to install the roof.
Now, like I mentioned in the beginning of the video, I like to make sure everyone knows how to do things by the book.
You can bring in some Styrofoam pieces from the extra packaging.
Radiant Health suggests putting Styrofoam blocks in between the roof and the wall panels when you’re setting them up like this.
That does two things.
It’ll protect you from damaging the wood on top, and it’ll also give you a space to get your fingers in there to run the wires from the wall up into the roof.
Now, I’ve done this so many times on so many different saunas, I actually threw away the packaging.
I was just too lazy to go all the way back downstairs and get them, but it’s probably something that you want to do.
Now what I’m going to do is take the camera up top, and I’m going to show you exactly what it’s like to connect the wires.
There’s a little trap door by the radio side, and there’s a couple connections that you make in there.
You can’t mess them up.
They’re black to black, white to white, and they also have labels on each one.
They just snap together very easily.
Then you’ll want to take the screws out of the radio.
That’s just to secure it during shipping.
That’ll make sure all that works.
Then next we want to go to the other trap door for the other hatch on the other side and connect those cables.
Again, they’re all labeled.
It’s very simple.
They’re different sizes.
You can’t really mess it up.
It’s super simple.
The hardest part for me was getting my big hands down in there and just connecting the little connectors.
Once that’s done, the sauna is pretty much ready.
There is one extra step.
I cheated on this.
I actually turned the power supply on before I finished putting the sauna together, but then I took the camera and the light.
I put them back in the sauna because I realized, you know what?
Somebody else is probably going to follow the instructions to a T, and they’re not going to cheat.
Let me show you exactly what it’s like so there’s no steps missed.
You need to take the bench off if you have it assembled already, just the top, just enough so that you can get down in there.
I’m struggling here to hold the camera, show you this, and have enough light in there because it’s now dark out.
It’s no longer light outside.
I was doing this in the evening.
All you want to do is flip on the main power supply.
Okay.
You guys ready for this?
We’re going to turn the sauna on for the first time.
We’re going to do “on.”
Sweet.
Hopefully, the camera can pick up everything on the LCD.
I really like a few features of this control panel.
Some of you guys are going to think that this is crazy, but one of the things that’s really nice is to be able to switch back and forth from degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit.
I know in many saunas, I had to sit there and do conversions on my phone to figure out the temperature, so it’s really nice to be able to do that.
We’re going to go ahead and turn off the outside lights, which are working.
We’ll turn on the inside lights.
The other thing that I’m really excited about with this sauna is the delayed start.
Now, it does not have a smartphone app controller, but I like that because there’s no Wi-Fi in the sauna, so you don’t get RF radiation from that.
A lot of people want to set the sauna a couple hours before they want to use it.
Say you get home from work, and you’re going to go out and do a run, or you’re going to make dinner, and you want the sauna preheated at a specific time, there’s a countdown timer that can do that by the hour.
I’m really excited to get in here and start testing that out over the next week or two.
Obviously, I’ll do updated videos on that.
The current temperature in the sauna is 71.
We’re going to set it to whatever its max is.
This is my first time using it, so it looks like it’s 149 is the max.
I just want it to heat up as fast as possible.
The bench top heater, which is super cool, that’s the heater that’s in the seat.
You can turn that off or turn that on, which is really nice.
You can change the color of the chromotherapy.
I don’t usually use chromotherapy too much, so we’ll just hold it down for three seconds and turn it off.
Or cycle through, I think there’s like eight modes or something like that.
Then we won’t use the delayed start, but I’ll do an updated video on that.
The maximum time for the sauna is one hour.
It’s in five-minute increments, so we’ll leave it on 60 minutes and let it preheat.
This is the Radiant sauna.
Hopefully, you guys have enjoyed the unboxing video.
I’m really excited to test this thing out over the next couple of weeks.
I’ll be personally using it.
We’re going to get started with its first preheat session.
I like to just do what I call a burn-off phase, which is just let the sauna heat up to its maximum heat.
The first time, you don’t get in it.
You just let it heat up and dissipate any smells or sawdust or anything that’s in there.
We’re going to bring the vacuum cleaner in, vacuum up any Styrofoam stuff and anything that I may have messed with.
Then preheat the sauna.
Then I’m going to do a separate–Oh, I forgot about that.
It’s really nice.
This has a control panel on the inside and the outside, and the controls are identical.
I’m super happy about that.
Very, very excited about that because sometimes you don’t want to go in the sauna to make adjustments.
In my case, doing a demo for somebody, if there is somebody over here and I was showing them how to use it, it’s very nice to be able to do the controls from the outside and have them see what’s happening on the inside.
Anyway, overall, the finish of the sauna looks great.
By the way, just a quick tip.
If you are vacuuming the sauna out and you have it preheating at the same time, you’ll want to stretch the cord to the vacuum to another room and put it on a different circuit because if the sauna is preheating–I’ve got photography lights going on here–and we fire up a vacuum, it’s going to trip the breaker because it’s too much for the circuit.
Just a little pro tip, if you’re cleaning and you’re heating the sauna and you’ve got other things powered on in the room, stretch the vacuum cord into the bathroom or in another circuit, use an extension cord somewhere else in the house, and that won’t happen to you.
Hope that helps somebody.
A lot of people like to wipe down the sauna before they begin to use it or before they preheat it for the first time.
I have the sauna preheating, but I had some dust and stuff in mine, and I just like to go ahead and vacuum the saunas out.
A lot of times–this might not apply to you guys–but a lot of times, you know, I have to be careful not to have my shoes on.
When I am assembling the sauna, I’m usually stepping in and out of it a lot more than normal people because we’ve got camera lights and tripods that have to be moved around, and I generally get, you know, dust and hairs and other things, and the vacuum just makes really quick work of it.
You can wipe it down with a damp paper towel if you’d like, but I start with the vacuum and just make sure everything is dust-free and clean, and I would recommend only cleaning the inside glass with a non-toxic cleaner because if you use something like Windex, it’s going to heat up, and if you do it the first time and you just do a burn-off session where you’re not in the sauna, it’ll take care of it, but as a general rule, you don’t want to do that all the time.
You want to use a non-toxic glass cleaner.
And we are done.
My beautiful new sauna is here.
I wanted to flip the camera around and take you into my personal sauna, show you exactly what it looks like.
Oh, I missed some styrofoam down there with the vacuum.
I wanted to show you the cup holder is removable.
It basically just slips over this little notch that’s pre-designed for it right there, and this is what the inside of your sauna is going to look like.
You’ve got the beautiful glass door there.
You’ve got the control panel on the inside.
This is what I wanted to show you.
If this is your first time using it, you’ll probably want to turn the sauna on for the first time.
If you didn’t see earlier in the video, I suspect most people will fast-forward to the part that accommodates them.
This goes in five-minute increments, so we’ll preheat to the max time of 60 minutes.
I want the max temperature.
If you’re in Canada, you can switch back and forth from Celsius to Fahrenheit pretty easily, which is really nice.
That was one of the complaints that I got last year about other Canadian saunas that don’t have that feature, so that’s really cool for Americans.
From there, this is my personal sauna.
I just wanted to take you inside and show you–actually, I forgot one thing.
The one thing that I forgot is the radio from the inside just flips down like so.
You’re more than welcome to do a wired connection if you want to do your iPhone.
I’ve got a couple of cord recommendations that I can make a subsequent video for if you want to do a wired hookup.
There’s all types of–I think there’s even a USB on the front of that if you wanted to play something off an MP3 player or what have you.
Most people read a book or do all kinds of different things, use it as meditation, or just play a CD if you want to have a meditation CD.
Actually, I should show you guys that stuff.
When I do that, I just don’t really talk about it.
Some of the CDs that I like a lot are some of these calming ones.
If a lot of people want to know about it, just comment down below.
One of the things that works really well for a lot of folks is healing frequencies like these hole frequencies.
Again, I don’t think everyone is interested in that, but if it’s something you’re interested in, just comment down below, and I’ll make a separate video and show you where to get them.
They’re really cheap.
Some of them are like $10 on Amazon.
I like to use this as a quiet time, almost like a meditative time or a healing time.
That’s what the sauna should be anyway.
If it’s your first time using the sauna, congratulations.
This is going to preheat, and it should be ready for you in about 25 minutes.
You’ll be getting your sweat on in the comfort of your own home, and enjoy.
If you have any follow-up questions or you need help, I’ll be working on the detox protocols.
I’ll be working on the detox program course and also the supplement guides.
One of the biggest things for everyone is if you’re having health troubles, if you have leaky gut, if you have heavy metals, if you have pesticide poisoning or anything like that, dealing with mercury fillings or something like I was, one of the things you want to be cognizant of is taking binders.
I’m going to do special videos just for that because I don’t want you guys to suffer like I did.
Hopefully, this will help a lot of people out there.
Hopefully, you get a really good idea of what it’s like to put this sauna together before you even buy it so that you’re comfortable when it arrives and you know what to do.
If you need any help, let me know in the comments down below, and I’ll see you in tomorrow’s video.
Have a great day, guys.