Thought I'd share my recent "urban" sauna build. The cedar panelling, benches, doors, windows etc are all made from re-purposed materials salvaged from a cedar deck that was well past it's useful life. This is a combined tool shed/sauna, with a footprint of about 10 x 14 feet. About half (7x10) is sauna (dressing and steam room) . The old decking was severely weather checked and covered with peeling stain, so I needed to get it down to fresh wood. I do own a surface planer, but it would have been dulled very quickly, so instead, I surfaced the wood with my table saw outfitted with a cheap 7 1/4" construction grade circular saw blade which cost me about $10. No biggie if I hit a nail. First step is to edge the boards. With the blade all the way up on the saw, I can only cut 1 1/2" deep, so I will have to surface the board in two passes. After getting the board edged on both sides I set the fence to 11/16", and r...