About Home Performance Guide

Home Performance Guide covers the equipment people put in their homes to train and recover: saunas, cold plunges, red light, hyperbaric chambers and golf simulators.

The guides here are built from one rule. Every specification comes from the manufacturer's own published documentation or the relevant code, not from another blog. When a number can't be verified against a primary source, it doesn't go in, and when a claim is uncertain the guide says so.

That sounds obvious. It isn't common. Most equipment content in this category is rewritten from other equipment content, which is how three different websites end up publishing three different "required" breaker sizes for the same sauna heater.

How we research and correct our guides is on our editorial standards page.

Who writes these guides

Evan Reid runs Home Performance Guide, a site for people deciding whether a sauna, cold plunge, red light panel, hyperbaric chamber or golf simulator will actually work in their home. He and the HPG Research Team read the makers' own manuals, spec sheets and policies so you don't have to. We don't test products ourselves unless a guide says so.

Evan Reid is a pen name. The person behind it owns Home Performance Guide and signs off on every guide.

The HPG Research Team reads the makers' manuals, spec sheets and policies, plus the codes that apply, and checks every figure in a guide against those documents before it goes live.

The purpose of this site is to answer the questions that decide whether a purchase works in your actual house, before the money is spent.

We also post room ideas and the makers' numbers behind them on Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook.

Home Performance Guide earns commissions on some links. That never determines what gets covered or what gets said about it.