Sauna, Hammam and Steam Room Build Notes by Sauna Dekor

Short answer: an experience shower is a ceiling-recessed plumbing and control assembly, not a fitting you hang on a wall. A single hotel-grade station needs a 150 mm ceiling recess, a flat wall behind it for the side jets, at least 25 L/min at 3 bar dynamic pressure, its own floor drain and a thermostatic valve, plus a control unit of roughly 525 × 500 × 150 mm somewhere dry. On a Vancouver hotel spa this year, the available ceiling void was 150 mm — exactly the recess depth, before any pipework. That is the clash that decides the job. Experience showers — adventure showers, sensation showers, whichever term the consultant used — are the cheapest room in a thermal suite and the one most likely to arrive on site unbuildable. They are drawn as a symbol on the reflected ceiling plan. They are procured as a fitting. They are, in fact, a ceiling assembly with a services zone above it and a drainage strategy below it. Sauna Dekor has manufactured and installed spa wet areas since 1987,...