Custom saunas for Mahé hillsides, Eden Island and Praslin

A plinth on the rock that is already there

The Inner Seychelles are granite islands, and on most hillside sites the bedrock sits close to the surface. A plinth of split granite pinned into it is usually cheaper and more permanent than benching the slope for a slab; where the ground is too steep, an engineer sizes a galvanised steel frame on pad footings.

Whichever it is, a cut-off drain above the platform sends storm water round the cabin rather than under it.

Salt and humidity, with no inland to retreat to

No site in these islands is far from the sea, so every cabin is built to marine specification: A4 stainless for every fixing, end grain sealed in the factory before assembly, a ventilated void underneath, drained cavities and the chiller in a filtered cabinet. Humidity is constant, so the design gives moisture a way out rather than pretending to keep it out.

Glass and the heater sum

Most clients want the sea in view, so glazing drives the design: one glass wall to the bay, or two meeting at a post-free corner. Each square metre of glass adds about 0.4 kW to the heater calculation, which starts from roughly 0.85 kW per cubic metre of insulated cabin; at sea level there is no altitude correction. PUC supplies 240 V and 415 V, and heaters above about 8 kW go on three phases.

From our factory to Port Victoria

Each cabin is made at our Istanbul works and stood up there in full for inspection before it is packed, panel by numbered panel, for Port Victoria; orders for Praslin or La Digue take the inter-island cargo boat from Victoria. Our own installers put it together, test it and show you how it runs. Production takes six to ten weeks from the signed drawing, and the sea passage comes on top.

Prices here are guides for a fitted cabin; we fix them once we have seen the plot, in person or on a video call. The carry, slope access and any crossing get their own lines. A photo of the spot and a few measurements are enough for a first itemised figure.

In short

• Granite plinths pinned into bedrock; engineered steel frames on steeper ground
• A4 stainless, sealed end grain and ventilated voids as standard
• Panels sized to the carry route surveyed before quoting
• Factory-built in Istanbul, landed at Port Victoria, installed by our crew