Saunas & cold plunges in Curepipe & Floreal

Damp is the whole engineering problem

Persistent rain and high humidity mean nothing dries on its own, indoors or out. Mechanical extract on a humidistat, continuous vapour barriers, ventilated voids and thermo-treated or charred timber throughout.

Untreated timber here fails faster than anywhere else on the island, including the coast.

Cool enough for a plunge to behave

Mains water up here arrives cooler than on the coast and the nights are genuinely cool. A well-insulated shaded tub still needs a chiller for a reliable 8 °C, but it works far less hard than the same tub in Belle Mare.

Older houses

A lot of the good housing stock here is older, with limited electrical capacity. We survey the board before promising a heater size, and sometimes the right answer is a smaller cabin rather than an upgrade.