Dundalk LeisureCraft CT Serenity Barrel Sauna with Porch

Name: Dundalk LeisureCraft CT Serenity Barrel Sauna | 4-Person Outdoor Sauna with Porch
Brand: LeisureCraft
SKU: CTC2245W
Price: 6127.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Dundalk LeisureCraft CT Serenity barrel sauna outdoors, showing the covered front porch and its benches

Canadian Timber Collection · Model CTC2245W

The CT Serenity — the Harmony’s sauna, with a covered porch on the front

Eastern White Cedar, solid single-stave walls, T6061 aluminum bands and a 5 mm bronze tempered glass door. The Serenity is the 94.5-inch outdoor barrel sauna, and here is the thing about it that nobody selling it will tell you — it comes straight off LeisureCraft’s own comparison table: its sauna is exactly the same size as the Harmony’s — 71 inches deep, 222 cubic feet, identical. The extra 15 inches on the outside is a covered porch with benches. You are buying somewhere to sit between rounds, not a bigger sauna.

Built to order in Melancthon, Ontario and shipped flat-packed with the cedar pre-cut. Wood-fired or electric. Freight is included to the contiguous 48 states — though at a 96-inch crate this one is past the liftgate limit, which is worth planning for before it ships.

Pay over time with Shop Pay Installments at checkout, or finance through APPROVE. Rates and terms depend on the amount financed and are subject to approval.

222Cu ft interior

4People

Wood
or electricHeater options

5 yrResidential warranty

See it in action

See the Dundalk LeisureCraft CT Serenity Barrel Sauna in action

LeisureCraft’s own footage of the Serenity. Worth two minutes before you read the specifications.

Straight answer first

Where the Serenity earns its place — and what it is not

We would rather be plain about this than sell you the wrong barrel. On LeisureCraft’s own specification table the Serenity and the Harmony have identical interiors: 71 inches deep, 83 wide, 79 high, 222 cubic feet, the same 20-inch benches. Stepping up from a Harmony to a Serenity buys you no additional sauna whatsoever.

What it buys is the porch — roughly fifteen inches of covered cedar deck on the front, with benches, under the overhang of the barrel. And that is a genuinely good thing to own. The part of a sauna session people underestimate is the cool-down between rounds, and a porch means you do it outside, in the air, still under cover, instead of going back into the house in a towel.

Buy the Serenity because you want the porch. If what you actually want is more room to sit in, do not buy this one — buy the Tranquility, which is the first barrel in the range where the sauna itself gets bigger.

The wood

Eastern White Cedar, on the barrel and on the porch

The barrel is built from Grade-A solid cedar in single staves — no tenon joints along their length — held by T6061 aluminum bands, which LeisureCraft describes as marine grade, with stainless steel hardware. Eastern White Cedar is naturally resistant to rot, decay and insects, and it is sourced from certified sustainable mills in British Columbia and Ontario.

Here is the part almost nobody selling a barrel sauna will tell you. The cedar is meant to move. LeisureCraft’s own care instructions say the goal is for the wood to expand into the bands, tightening the staves — and that you should tighten the bands after the initial installation, typically within the first month, then check them periodically. A three-quarter-inch wrench does it in minutes. It is the one maintenance job this sauna genuinely needs, and it is why a well-kept barrel stays tight for decades.

CT Serenity barrel sauna standing in snow, showing the covered porch and the full barrel length

CT Serenity construction

What you are paying for in a Canadian Timber cedar barrel sauna

Solid single-stave cedar

Grade-A solid cedar with no tenon joints running along the stave. It is the difference between a barrel that stays round and one that does not.

T6061 aluminum bands

Made in Canada, in the alloy LeisureCraft calls marine grade, with stainless steel hardware. They are also the part you tighten — see above.

20-inch benches, 5 mm glass

Benches are 20 inches wide on every barrel in the range. The door and window are bronze tempered single pane, 5 mm, per LeisureCraft’s specification sheet.

Choosing your heater

Wood or electric — both are offered on the Serenity

Every Canadian Timber barrel is a traditional sauna, and every one is available with a wood-burning stove as well as an electric heater; LeisureCraft’s own comparison table lists both as available on all three. For electric, LeisureCraft recommends 7.5 kW here — the same as the Harmony, because the sauna is the same size.

Electric — the simple path

Six electric heaters fit these barrels, from the wall-mounted Harvia KIP to the HUUM Drop, which holds 120 lb of stone. The heater sets the circuit, not the sauna, and the run from your panel to the yard is usually the bigger cost. Tell us the heater and we will put the electrical specification in writing. It has to be a licensed electrician — LeisureCraft voids the warranty otherwise.

Wood — and what it asks of you

Wood is slower to bring up and needs feeding mid-session, and it is the reason people put these at cottages: the fire is half of it. Electric is set-and-forget, and it is the only option if your township restricts outdoor burning — worth checking before you choose. A wood build also needs a chimney, and which chimney depends on your site.

Why the phone, and not a dropdown

Chimney routing — out the top, out the side or back, with an elbow, with a water tank — is a site decision rather than a shopping one, and it changes with your roof line and your local code. LeisureCraft accepts no returns, so a wrong kit is money you do not get back. We spec it with you instead and quote it alongside the sauna, so it arrives on the same order.

Choose your electric heater at the top of this page. It is added to your order as its own line, sized to this barrel per LeisureCraft. Prefer wood? Call (888) 500-5675 and we will spec the stove and its chimney with you before the order goes in.

Aluminium bands and cedar staves — the bands are what you tighten in the first month.

Living with it

What a week with the Serenity actually looks like

The round, then the porch

Fifteen minutes inside, then out onto the front bench under the overhang instead of back into the kitchen in a towel. That swap is the entire reason this model exists. Everything else on the Serenity is a Harmony.

Weather

The porch sits under the barrel’s own curve, so it is covered without anything bolted on. Rain and snow are when that earns its keep — you can take the cold air between rounds without standing out in the weather to do it.

Company

Four inside on the 20-inch benches, two more out front on the porch bench. The sauna itself is Harmony-sized, so the porch is what lets more people be part of it without anyone queueing in a towel indoors.

Who buys this one

Three people who choose the Serenity

The one who cools down outside

If your sauna habit is rounds rather than one long sit, the porch is the whole product. It is where a good part of the session actually happens, and it is the difference you notice every time.

The host

Four in, two out, nobody dripping through the kitchen on the way past. The sauna is Harmony-sized; the porch is what makes it social, and because it is covered, a wet evening does not push everyone back indoors halfway through.

The one who wants a Tranquility and does not have the room for one

Be honest with yourself here: this is not a smaller Tranquility, it is a Harmony with a porch. If six people need to sit down at once, saving now buys the wrong barrel — and the Tranquility is a different crate entirely.

Full specifications

CT Serenity specifications, and how the three barrels really compare

All three share an exterior width and height of 86.25 inches, an interior width of 83 inches, an interior height of 79 inches, 20-inch benches and 5 mm bronze tempered glass. Read the interior depth row before anything else — it is the row that tells you what you are actually buying.

Spec	Harmony	Serenityyou are here	Tranquility
Comfortably seats	4 people	4 people (they list 5)	6 people
Interior volume	222 cu ft / 6.3 m³	222 cu ft / 6.3 m³	297 cu ft / 7.6 m³
Interior depth	71″ / 180 cm	71″ / 180 cm	94.75″ / 241 cm
Exterior depth	79″ / 201 cm	94.5″ / 240 cm	118″ / 300 cm
Covered front porch	—	Yes	Yes
Recommended electric heater	7.5 kW	7.5 kW	7.5 – 9 kW
Wood heater available	Yes	Yes	Yes
Crate	34″ x 84″	34″ x 96″	34″ x 120″ x 45″
Crate weight (varies with options)	1,044 lb	1,113 lb	1,300 lb
Liftgate (84″ limit)	At the limit	No — 96″	No — 120″
Model code	CTC22W	CTC2245W	CTC2345W

Harmony and Serenity have identical interiors: 71 inches deep, 222 cubic feet. The Serenity is longer outside because it carries a covered front porch. The Tranquility is the only one of these three where the sauna itself is bigger. Dimensions, volumes, crate sizes and heater ratings above are LeisureCraft’s own published figures. One departure, and we would rather you saw it: their table lists the Serenity at five people and the Harmony at four, despite giving both the same 71-inch, 222 cubic foot room. Because the room is the same size we publish four for both and count the porch separately. Their figure is five — check it, and decide which is more useful to you.

Also in this family: Harmony and Tranquility. See every barrel sauna we carry, the wider outdoor sauna range, or the rest of the Dundalk LeisureCraft collection. Not sure which one? Compare the interior volumes in the table above rather than the exterior lengths — on these three, the extra length is porch, not room.

Ownership, in numbers

What the CT Serenity costs to use, once it is in the yard

We are not going to invent a cost-per-session for you — we do not know what you paid or how often you will use it. What we can give you is the denominator, and five years is not an arbitrary window: it is the length of the residential warranty.

780Sessions in five years, at three a week

3,120Person-sessions with a full bench

0Memberships, bookings, drive time or drop-in fees

Wood
or powerThe only cost that recurs is what you feed it

Divide your delivered price by 780, or by 3,120 if the bench is full, and you have your real cost per session. We would rather hand you the arithmetic than publish an average we made up.

What you are not paying for separately

Freight to the contiguous 48 states, and all cross-border duties
Cedar cut, shaped and pre-drilled — there is no carpentry on site
Benches, cradles, aluminum bands and stainless hardware
The bronze tempered glass door and window
A poured foundation — it sits on its own cedar cradles, which must be level and stay level
Assembly labor, if you and one other person build it yourselves

What arrives

What is in the CT Serenity barrel sauna crate

Pre-cut Eastern White Cedar staves and end walls
Solid cedar cradles and support stands
T6061 aluminum bands and stainless steel hardware
Two 20-inch-wide cedar benches and the front porch benches
5 mm bronze tempered glass door and window
Printed assembly instructions

CT Serenity barrel sauna on a stone patio, porch benches either side of the cedar door — Assembled. Everything above ships flat in one crate, 34″ x 96″.

The heater, chimney, roof, floor plate, lighting and accessory packages are all chosen separately and added to your order, so you get the combination that suits your site rather than a fixed bundle. We put that combination together with you before the order goes to the factory.

Every angle

The CT Serenity in detail

More angles on the CT Serenity, from LeisureCraft’s own photography.

CT Serenity barrel sauna in a wooded lakeside setting with a chimney fitted

CT Serenity barrel sauna, front elevation on white, with the two front porch benches

CT Serenity barrel sauna three-quarter view on white, aluminum bands and cedar cradles visible

Inside the CT Serenity barrel sauna: facing cedar benches, heater and slatted floor

Electric heater with stones and a cedar bucket inside the CT Serenity barrel sauna

Looking out through the CT Serenity barrel sauna window from the bench

Slatted cedar floor and bench supports inside the CT Serenity barrel sauna

CT Serenity barrel sauna rear elevation on white, showing the closed end wall

Assembly

Building the CT Serenity

LeisureCraft’s own build footage, filmed on this model. Two people, ordinary hand tools, no cutting. Worth watching before you order rather than after.

Assembly manual (PDF) Dimensioned drawing (PDF)

Free delivery

Barrel sauna delivery, and what to have ready

Freight included

Freight and all cross-border charges are already in the price, curbside to the contiguous 48 states. The Serenity crate is 34″ x 96″ and about 1,113 lb. At 96 inches it is past the 84-inch limit LeisureCraft sets for a liftgate, so plan on equipment or several people to take it off the truck — that is the arrangement to make before the delivery call, not on the day.

Built to order

Nothing is stocked. Your barrel joins the production queue in Melancthon once your order is placed, and we confirm the build and ship window in writing as soon as the factory schedules it. If that date does not work, say so straight away — nothing is cut in the first days, and that is the window where a change costs nothing.

What it sits on

No slab to pour — the barrel rests on its own cedar cradles. But the ground under those cradles has to be flat and stay flat: compacted gravel or level pavers under each cradle is the usual answer. Ground that settles unevenly pulls a barrel out of round, and improper installation is excluded from the warranty. Call us before you dig or pour.

Inspect before you sign

Photograph any damage and write it on the Bill of Lading before you sign, then call us within 72 hours. A clean signature makes a freight claim very hard to win, and on a crate this size a concealed dent is easy to miss in the moment. The crate is set down at the curb — not carried inside, not assembled — so have your help and your route sorted for the day it lands.

A few situations do add cost — a tilt-tow truck, an address change after the crate ships, or terminal storage if a delivery appointment stalls. All are avoidable and all are listed on our LeisureCraft shipping policy. Because each barrel is cut for your order, LeisureCraft does not accept returns or exchanges at any point; read our return policy before ordering, and call us with any doubt, because we would rather talk it through first.

Before you start. Heat loads the cardiovascular system. If you are pregnant, have heart disease, high or low blood pressure, a seizure disorder or diabetes, have a pacemaker or another implanted cardiac or electronic device, are recovering from surgery, have Raynaud’s syndrome, or take medication affecting blood pressure, thermoregulation or alertness, speak to your doctor first. This is not an exhaustive list — if you have any health condition, ask your doctor before you start. Never use a sauna after drinking alcohol, and children should not use one unsupervised.

Buyer questions

CT Serenity — the questions buyers actually ask

Is the Serenity a bigger sauna than the Harmony?

No, and this is the single most useful thing to know before you order. LeisureCraft's own table gives the Serenity and the Harmony the same 71-inch interior depth and the same 222 cubic feet. The Serenity is 94.5 inches long on the outside against the Harmony's 79. LeisureCraft publishes no porch depth; that extra length is a covered front porch with benches, not extra room to sit in. If you want a bigger sauna rather than a porch, the Tranquility is the one that grows: 94.75 inches deep and 297 cubic feet.

What is the porch actually like to use?

It is a covered cedar deck on the front of the barrel with benches, sheltered by the overhang of the barrel itself. Its job is the cool-down between rounds — the part of a sauna session people underestimate. Instead of walking back into the house in a towel you sit outside, under cover, and go back in when you are ready. In rain or snow the overhang is the difference between finishing the round outside and dashing indoors.

Will the Serenity fit where a Harmony fits?

Not in length. It is the same width and height — 86.25 inches on both — but 94.5 inches deep against 79, so you need about fifteen more inches of run. The crate is longer too, at 96 inches against 84, which puts it past the 84-inch liftgate limit. Measure the access route as well as the pad.

How does a barrel sauna heat differently from a square room?

The curve is doing a job. A square sauna has upper corners nobody sits in and a barrel does not, so it encloses less air for the same bench space. Heat-up time depends mainly on the heater you choose and the outdoor temperature, which is why we size the heater with you rather than publish a number that will not hold.

What is Eastern White Cedar, and why not Western Red?

Eastern White Cedar is what the Canadian Timber Collection is built from — lighter in color, tighter knots, naturally resistant to rot, decay and insects, and sourced from certified sustainable mills in British Columbia and Ontario. Western Red Cedar is a darker, more strongly scented species used in other sauna lines. Neither is short of cedar smell — the difference is closer to two coffees than to coffee and water. Every barrel we sell in this family is Eastern White Cedar.

How often do you tighten the bands on a barrel sauna?

Yes, and it is the one job with a deadline. LeisureCraft's own care instructions explain that the cedar needs to expand into the bands to tighten the staves, and that you should tighten them after the initial installation — typically within the first month — then check them periodically. A three-quarter-inch wrench does it. It takes minutes, it is the one job this sauna genuinely needs, and skipping it is how people end up with gaps between staves.

What does the warranty actually cover?

Five years, residential, against defects in materials and workmanship, starting the day you receive it. It is parts only — service, labor and installation are excluded, and a replacement part does not extend the five years. It does not cover normal wear, improper installation, insufficient maintenance or weather. One condition catches people out: all electrical connections must be made by a licensed electrician, and failing to do that voids the warranty. Heaters carry their own terms, which we confirm in writing with your order.

Can I pay for this over time?

Yes. Shop Pay Installments is available at checkout, and APPROVE offers financing on larger orders including business and commercial buyers. Terms, length and whether interest applies all depend on the amount financed and on approval, so the exact offer is the one presented to you rather than anything we can quote here. Call us if you would rather talk it through first.

What happens if I change my mind after ordering?

Every barrel is built to your order, so LeisureCraft does not accept returns or exchanges at any point — that is their policy, not a restocking arrangement, and we would rather you knew before you ordered than after. If your build has not started we will do everything we can to cancel at no cost, which is why calling the moment anything changes is the single most useful thing you can do. Our full LeisureCraft return policy sets out where you stand.

Is a traditional sauna safe for me?

For most healthy adults, used sensibly, yes — but heat genuinely loads the cardiovascular system, so this is a question for your doctor rather than for us. Speak to them first if you are pregnant, have heart disease, high or low blood pressure, a seizure disorder or diabetes, have a pacemaker or another implanted cardiac or electronic device, are recovering from surgery, have Raynaud's syndrome, or take medication affecting blood pressure, thermoregulation or alertness. That list is not exhaustive. Never use a sauna after drinking alcohol, and children should not use one unsupervised.

How long from order to delivery?

Every barrel is built to order, so the honest answer is that it depends on the production queue rather than on us — and that queue moves. We quote your build and ship window on the phone rather than publish a number that ages, and we confirm it in writing once the factory schedules it. If the timing does not work for you, the first days after an order are the window where a change costs nothing.

Is the five-year warranty valid in a gym, spa or rental?

The five-year term is LeisureCraft's residential warranty. If the sauna is going into a gym, spa, short-term rental or any commercial setting, call us before you order — commercial coverage is not the same thing and we will confirm the terms in writing rather than let you find out at claim time. Financing through APPROVE is available to business buyers either way.

Is Recovery Room Direct an authorized LeisureCraft dealer?

Yes. We buy directly from the manufacturer in Melancthon, Ontario, your barrel is built against your order, and we send the manufacturer's warranty registration with your order confirmation. When something needs sorting out, we deal with the factory on your behalf.

Authorized DealerOfficial LeisureCraft retailer — factory warranty on every order

Free FreightIncluded to the contiguous 48 states, duties paid

Recovery SpecialistsReal people who know this equipment — (888) 500-5675

Five-Year WarrantyResidential limited warranty from the day it arrives

Want the porch, or want more sauna?

These two questions have different answers. The Serenity gives you a covered porch and the Harmony’s sauna; the Tranquility gives you a genuinely bigger room and a porch. Tell us how many people sit at once and we will tell you which one to buy.

Speak with a Sauna Specialist — (888) 500-5675

Built to order in Ontario Freight included Authorized dealer Five-year residential warranty

Back to the top of the page