$3 300 – 25 000
Saunas
A sauna is the simplest room we build and the one most often specified wrongly, because almost every sizing chart in e…
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Each one is a continental page: what the room is, how it is engineered, and what it costs. Every one of them also has a country page underneath it, because the specification changes with the climate and the price changes with the currency.
$2 100 – 30 000
Cold plunges
In most of the world a plunge is a tub. In most of Africa it is a machine, and the single commonest fault we are calle…
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$5 200 – 16 800
Steam rooms & hammams
We are called to more failed steam rooms in Africa than failed saunas, and the cause is nearly always the same: the ro…
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$7 000 – 13 000
Carved stone basins
This is the one thing we make that could not be made anywhere else, because the block comes out of the ground near whe…
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$2 000 – 3 400
Infrared cabins
For an apartment, a rented villa or any property where nothing can be fixed to the structure, this is the answer that …
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$1 200 – 8 200
Chillers & plant
Two thirds of the chillers we are asked to repair on this continent were sized for a smaller tub than the one they wer…
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$26 000 – 138 000
Hotel & resort spas
A commercial suite has one requirement above every other: it has to work on a Friday evening in high season, whether o…
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$12 000 – 90 000
Safari camp & lodge spas
A camp spa is an off-grid engineering problem with a hospitality brief attached, and the peak is the ninety minutes af…
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$11 000 – 51 000
Home wellness suites
The difference between a room used twice a week and one used most evenings is almost never the equipment. It is whethe…
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$7 300 – 15 500
Gym & club recovery zones
Shared cold water in a climate that is warm every day of the year is the hardest hygiene case in this trade, and it is…
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$1 400 – 7 000
Coastal & island builds
On most of the sites we work, the hard part is not the building. It is getting the building to the place where it will…
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$1 500 – 5 500
Power & off-grid integration
In most of our markets the grid is not the primary supply. A heater and a chiller are simply two large loads to be pla…
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$160 – 5 400
Service & repairs
Most of the repair work we do on this continent has one of four causes: an undersized heater, a blanketed condenser, a…
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