We design and build heat and cold rooms across Kenya — a cabin in a Karen garden, a plunge deck at Diani, a thermal suite for a Mara camp. Nairobi sits at 1,795 metres, which changes the heater in every quote we write for the capital and makes cold water cheaper here than almost anywhere in Africa.
Thinner air carries less heat per kilowatt, so a heater chosen from a sea-level chart underperforms and the cabin never gets properly hot. We apply an altitude correction and show it as its own line — the commonest fault we are called to fix in the capital is a heater that was quoted nationally.
Cool Nairobi nights mean a shaded, insulated, lidded plunge barely gains heat overnight. The compressor cycles instead of running, the bill is modest and the unit lasts longer. At the coast none of that applies, and we size and price the two completely differently.
A4 stainless and sealed enclosures at the coast. Dust packages and off-grid sequencing in the bush. Altitude corrections and half-yearly service inland. One national specification is wrong in at least two of them.
Nairobi sits at about 1,795 metres — higher than Denver, higher than Addis Ababa. That single number changes the heate…
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Highland, coast, bush and lake are four different engineering problems. Each page here has its own altitude, its own enemy and its own answer.
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Read more →Panels, benches, doors and sub-frame steel are made in our Nairobi workshop and delivered as sections. You can come and see a cabin in build and a heater running before choosing anything.
Every quote shows the heater calculation including the altitude correction, and separates access, services and the coastal or dust package. If it is the elevation, the salt or the murram road that makes your project expensive, you will see which.
Imported components land at Mombasa, so there is no border crossing and no landlocked road leg. We order long-lead items first and do the groundwork while the container travels.
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Read more →Yes, and more than most people expect. At 1,795 m we size the heater up a step and show the calculation. A cabin that never gets properly hot in the capital almost always has a heater quoted from a sea-level chart.
For a reliable 8 °C, yes, but a smaller one than the coast needs. For a shaded insulated tub at 14–16 °C, often none at all — and we will tell you that rather than sell you a machine.
Yes — Diani, Mombasa, Watamu and Malindi, to the full marine specification, with quarterly service including a corrosion inspection. Trips are scheduled in blocks so several properties share the travel.
Yes, with the heater and chiller sequenced so they never start together, and the plunge sized to the water budget rather than the brochure.
Six months inland, three months at the coast and in the bush. Coastal visits include a corrosion inspection; bush visits include a dust inspection and a filter change.
For a steam room, a great deal. Rift Valley and coastal borehole chemistry varies enormously, so we test at the property before specifying the generator.
Usually, and cheaply. Nine times out of ten it is an under-sized heater. Replacing it in a sound cabin is a fraction of a rebuild.
40% to start the drawing and order materials, 40% when panels leave the workshop, 20% on commissioning.