Recovery zones sized on the busiest hour

Throughput is the number that matters

Two to four minutes in the water plus changeover gives ten to fifteen people per tub per hour. Size on your busiest hour rather than your membership list.

Almost every club that comes to us with a two-tub plan leaves with three, because the queue is what members remember — and a queue at the one facility your competitor does not have is a wasted advantage.

Hygiene is the design

Warm ambient accelerates everything that grows in water. Circulation, cartridge filtration and an ozone or UV stage are mandatory, not options, and a rinse shower at the entry point turns a weekly water change into a monthly one.

A visible cleaning schedule with a name against it does more for water quality than any single piece of equipment. We write it, train the team on it and check it at six months.

Floor, slab and supply

Falls to a channel drain, a non-slip surface that survives chlorine, and a towel point that keeps wet feet off the gym floor. A 900-litre tub is close to a tonne before anyone gets in, so the slab is checked before we quote — and many African clubs are on upper floors, where that check is not optional.

Then the whole zone goes on circuits the changeover feeds. A club whose ice baths are warm every time the grid drops has an ice bath nobody trusts, and members notice within a fortnight.

In short

• Sized on the busiest hour, not the membership list
• Circulation, filtration and ozone or UV mandatory in this climate
• Rinse shower at entry turns a weekly water change into a monthly one
• Slab checked before quoting, whole zone on the essential board