Service, repairs and second lives

What a visit includes

Sauna: stones out, sorted, turned or replaced, element resistance checked, thermostat and overheat cut-out tested, bench fixings tightened, timber cleaned, vents cleared.

Steam: generator descaled to an interval set by your actual water, probe cleaned, trap flushed, silicone checked, extract tested. Plunge: condenser cleaned, pressures read, cartridge changed, ozone cell checked, water tested.

Every visit in these islands includes a corrosion inspection, because every site here is coastal.

The spares kit

We leave a box on site with the parts that fail most and their numbers: an element, a thermostat, a cartridge, hose seals and a handful of A4 fixings. On Praslin or an outer island that box turns a fortnight's wait into a ten-minute job.

Refurbishment and retrofits

An old cabin with a sound shell is usually worth re-lining rather than replacing. We also retrofit proper marine specification to installations built to a mainland standard — replacing plated fixings with A4, enclosing and filtering plant, lifting a cabin onto a ventilated void — which is inexpensive and dramatically extends what is left of their life.

In short

• Quarterly service everywhere, because every site here is coastal
• Corrosion inspection at every visit
• Spares kit with part numbers left on site
• Retrofitting marine specification to a mainland-built cabin is cheap and worth it