USD 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 page covers one room: what it is, how we engineer it and what it costs in US dollars. Under each sits the country version, because the specification changes with the climate and the price with the currency. All of them are made in our own factory and installed by our own crew.
Thirteen rooms
Every room we build, with an indicative USD band
USD 2 100 – 30 000
Cold plunges
Buying an ice bath for a hot country is really buying a small refrigeration system with a tub attached. On most of thi…
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USD 5 200 – 16 800
Steam rooms & hammams
A steam room is a sealed box full of hot vapour, and every weakness in the box shows within a year. In Africa's humid …
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USD 7 000 – 13 000
Carved stone basins
A plunge cut from a single block is the thing on a property that guests photograph before the view. We build them in l…
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USD 2 000 – 3 400
Infrared cabins
For an apartment, a rented villa or any home where nothing may be fixed to the walls, an infrared cabin is the heat ro…
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USD 1 200 – 8 200
Chillers & plant
A chiller that never reaches setpoint is rarely broken. Far more often it was matched to a smaller tub, a cooler clima…
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USD 26 000 – 138 000
Hotel & resort spas
A hotel spa is judged at its busiest hour, on the evening the generator takes over, by a guest who will write about it…
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USD 12 000 – 90 000
Safari camp & lodge spas
A safari camp spa is an off-grid engineering job with a hospitality brief on top. Guests want it in the ninety minutes…
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USD 11 000 – 51 000
Home wellness suites
The difference between a home spa used twice a week and one used most evenings is almost never the equipment. It is wh…
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USD 7 300 – 15 500
Gym & club recovery zones
A recovery zone is judged at seven in the evening, when a class ends and a dozen people want the same two tubs. Size i…
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USD 1 400 – 7 000
Coastal & island builds
On a coast or an island, putting up the room is rarely the hard part. Getting it to the spot where it will stand — alo…
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USD 1 500 – 5 500
Power & off-grid integration
In most of our markets the grid is a backup rather than the supply. Heater and chiller are simply two big loads, and t…
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USD 160 – 5 400
Service & repairs
Most of the repair work on this continent has one of four causes: an undersized heater, a blanketed condenser, a scale…
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