Istanbul
+90 (532) 215 64 78
info@saunadekor.com
Location
Ziya Gökalp, Metal İş Sanayi Sitesi Yolu 20. Blok No:17-19,
34490 İkitelli Osb/Başakşehir/İstanbul/Turkey
Dubai
+971 58 558 1295
info@saunadekor.com
Location
Latifa Tower Dubai, World Trade Centre, Dubai UAE
Boston
+1 (617) 645 13 50
info@saunadekor.com
Location
66 Long Wharf, Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02110 USA
Sauna Dekor is a sauna and steam room contractor in Bahrain, and the spa fit-out contractor in Bahrain that manufactures the package as well as installing it. We have manufactured in Istanbul since 1987 — this is our 40th year — have delivered in more than 35 countries, and supply, install and commission the complete sauna, hammam, steam room and cold-water package for hotel, resort, club and villa projects in Bahrain.
Sauna Dekor does this work. We are a Turkish manufacturer and the turnkey spa fit-out contractor in Bahrain — founded in 1987, in our 40th year, delivered in more than 35 countries — supplying Bahrain from our own Istanbul factory, with the Gulf side of each project coordinated through our Dubai office. In Bahrain we work either as the specialist thermal and wet-area subcontractor under a main contract, or directly for a private client on a villa suite.
Contracts are structured per project: international supply and installation invoiced from Türkiye in USD or EUR, or regional invoicing through our Gulf entity in Dubai when a client or main contractor needs a GCC counterparty. One point of contact from tender to handover, and one contractor in Bahrain carrying the whole wet scope rather than four trades meeting at an interface.
A wellness floor in Bahrain passes three desks: the municipal building permit, fire and life-safety approval through the General Directorate of Civil Defence at the Ministry of Interior, and electrical load and water connection through the Electricity and Water Authority. Imported heaters and panels add a fourth — product conformity. We produce the drawings, calculations and certificate file each of them asks for, and confirm the current issue of every reference with the project consultant rather than reprinting an old submittal.
Cabins, benches, hammam marble and mosaic wet rooms are produced in our own Istanbul workshops. Our company certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015, scoped to sauna and spa product manufacturing and after-sales service. The heaters, controls and steam generators we install carry CE / EN 60335, TÜV, GS and VDI 6022 certification issued to their manufacturers — EOS, Sentiotec, Condair. Both sets go into the submittal; we never present a supplier’s certificate as ours.
Contrast therapy is our craft. Every temperature on this spectrum is a facility we design, manufacture and install — and on a Bahrain project they are almost always specified together, as one wet package with one set of drawings.
Plus salt rooms, ice fountains, experience shower systems, hydrotherapy pools and treatment rooms — specified as a single wet package rather than as separate trades. For hotel, resort and members’-club floors in Manama, Bahrain Bay, Amwaj Islands and the southern resort developments, and for villa wellness suites in Riffa, Saar and Janabiya, the whole suite is scoped, drawn, built and commissioned by one contractor.
Every discipline a wellness project needs — design, manufacture, logistics, installation and after-sales — under one contract, coordinated for Bahrain from Istanbul and Dubai.
Feasibility, area programme, layout and conceptual design, 3D visualisation, cost estimation, specification and BOQ preparation.
Explore → 02Spa MEP and wet-area coordination, material submittals, shop drawings and the full technical file consultants and main contractors ask for at approval stage.
Explore → 03Sauna cabins, hammam marble, mosaic wet rooms and joinery produced in our own Istanbul facility, then crated as numbered modules for site assembly.
Explore → 04Our own supervisors and crews travel to site, assemble the package, then test and commission it. We work as a specialist installation contractor in Bahrain and mobilise from Istanbul and Dubai under the main contractor’s programme — we keep no resident crew on the island, and we say so at tender stage so the programme carries the real mobilisation time.
Explore → 05Numbered modules crated in Istanbul, the product conformity file prepared before departure, sea freight into Bahrain or road across the causeway from the Eastern Province, customs clearance and delivery to site — handled as part of our scope, not handed back to the client as an action item.
Explore → 0624-month warranty on the installed package, a spare-parts schedule at commissioning and a named engineer. Service visits to Bahrain are scheduled rather than same-day — spares are held in Istanbul and Dubai — so commercial operators are quoted a planned maintenance contract instead of a call-out arrangement.
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Bahrain is an island with a bridge, which gives a wellness package two very different delivery routes — and one import conformity route that has to be closed before either of them starts.
A contractor in Bahrain cannot improvise a cabin on site. The cabin is built and dry-assembled in Istanbul, every panel numbered, then dismantled and crated; hammam and steam-room marble is cut, dry-laid and labelled to the same drawing. What lands in Bahrain is a kit already proven to fit, not material to be worked out on site while the crew is on a visa clock.
Sauna heaters, control panels and steam generators are low-voltage electrical equipment, so they fall under the Gulf technical regulation behind the G-Mark, administered by the GCC Standardization Organization and applied in Bahrain through the standards and metrology directorate at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. We build that file on the manufacturers’ own CE / EN 60335 evidence and close it before the goods leave Türkiye, because a certificate chased after arrival is demurrage.
Bahrain’s container traffic runs through Khalifa Bin Salman Port at Hidd, usually reached from Türkiye with a transhipment call in the Gulf. The alternative is road: trucked through Saudi Arabia and across the King Fahd Causeway from the Eastern Province. Sea suits a programme with float in it; the causeway is how a late-running wet area gets recovered.
The interface every contractor in Bahrain has to get right is the handover of the shell. Our crew arrives once the wet-area shell is genuinely ready: tanking laid and flood-tested, drainage falls set, power and water terminated at the coordinates on our drawing. That interface is the commonest programme risk on a Gulf spa — the thermal contractor in Bahrain is booked before the MEP that feeds it is built. We issue builder’s-work and MEP requirement drawings at design stage, then re-check them on site before the crew flies.
Everything above arrives as a document set: shop drawings, material submittals, manufacturers’ certificates, method statement and commissioning records — the file a Bahraini consultant or main contractor asks for at approval stage. See how we work as a specialist thermal and wet subcontractor and as a spa design subconsultant.
Bahrain’s design problem is not the dry-bulb temperature. It is humidity and salt — and on reclaimed coastal ground, water arriving from below as well as above.
Bahrain sits in shallow, very warm Gulf water on every side, so its summer design condition is dominated by moisture rather than air temperature. Inland Riyadh and island Bahrain can share a dry-bulb and still need completely different plant, because the wet-bulb, in the sense used in the ASHRAE design conditions, is what sizes dehumidification and every condensation detail in a pool hall or steam lobby. We calculate wet-area ventilation on latent load, and detail vapour barriers and cold-bridge breaks on the assumption that the surrounding building will run cold air against a saturated room for most of the year.
Coastal and reclaimed-island sites — Amwaj, Bahrain Bay, Diyar Al Muharraq, the southern resort plots — put outdoor plant, roof condensers, fixings and ice fountain bowls into salt-laden air. That is a specification decision, not a maintenance one: marine-grade stainless where exposed, protected condenser coils, isolation between dissimilar metals, and outdoor timber finished for coastal rather than inland exposure. Getting it wrong shows up in year three, long after handover.
Bahrain’s municipal supply is desalinated water distributed after blending, and the island’s groundwater has grown steadily more saline over decades of abstraction. A blended supply is exactly the case where a national average tells you nothing about the building you are standing in: soft, low-TDS desalinated water attacks copper and carbon steel rather than scaling them, while a groundwater blend can do the opposite. So we sample the building’s own supply before specifying the steam plant. Softening on the steam feed is a commercial default regardless: EOS requires a softener on commercial installations whatever the measured hardness.
Sources: EOS steam-generator installation instructions; GSO technical regulation for low-voltage electrical equipment (Gulf Conformity Mark); Bahrain Electricity and Water Authority connection requirements; General Directorate of Civil Defence, Ministry of Interior, fire-safety approval route. Code editions and authority names are re-confirmed with the project consultant at design stage rather than copied forward from an earlier submittal, and we do not publish a delivered water-hardness figure we have not measured on the project itself.
The two segments diverge at the specification, not at the finish — and in Bahrain the hotel side carries an extra complication: demand that arrives in bursts.
A hotel, resort or members’-club sauna runs ten to fourteen hours a day, and that alone changes which contractor in Bahrain can carry the job. That moves the heater to a continuous-duty unit, the bench timber to a section that will not cup, and the steam generator to a duty/standby pair so the room does not close when one unit is serviced. Bahrain adds a peak-load question inland markets do not have in the same form: leisure demand concentrates heavily into the weekend, so a suite sized on average occupancy is under-planted on the days that matter. We size reheat and water turnover on the peak — see what commercial duty means for a gym sauna and a hotel spa.
For a private house the contractor in Bahrain is judged on access rather than on duty cycle. Bahrain’s residential wellness work is villa work, often on reclaimed or low-lying coastal ground where a basement suite meets a high water table. Tanking and drainage bind first, then access — will a 2.4 m panel turn that stair? — then plant location, condensate falls and acoustic separation from the majlis and the bedrooms above. We survey before we design, keep plant serviceable through a door rather than a hatch, and size modules to the route into the room.
We work for developers, hotel operators, main contractors, fit-out contractors and private clients. Whichever the route, the deliverable is one contractor for the drawings, the manufacture, the installation, the commissioning and the after-sales. The same work in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Doha, and the factory behind it in Istanbul.
Survey or drawing review, area programme, 3D visualisation, material selection and the full technical file — including the builder’s-work and MEP requirements the main contractor needs from us early, not late.
Production in our own Istanbul facility — cabins, marble, mosaic and joinery — with certified heaters, controls and steam plant bought in from their European manufacturers.
Crated modules, conformity file closed before departure, sea freight to Hidd or road across the causeway, customs clearance and delivery to site.
Our supervisors and crew fly in, assemble, pressure- and flood-test, commission, and hand over with the operator’s staff trained on the controls.
24-month warranty on the installed package, spares schedule at handover, planned maintenance contracts for commercial operators, and a named engineer who stays on the project.
Sauna Dekor does this work: design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of saunas, hammams, steam rooms, cold plunge and the wet areas around them. We are a Turkish manufacturer and turnkey spa contractor in Bahrain, established in 1987, now in our 40th year, delivered in more than 35 countries. The package is produced in our own Istanbul facility and installed in Bahrain by our own supervisors and crews.
No. We do not operate a Bahrain office and we do not publish a Bahrain line. Enquiries are handled from Istanbul, where the manufacturing is, and from our Gulf office in Dubai, with survey, installation and commissioning visits by appointment. Where a project needs continuous local presence during construction, we work under the main or fit-out contractor already mobilised on site.
Two separate things, and we keep them separate. Our own company certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015 quality management, scoped to sauna and spa product manufacturing and after-sales service. The equipment we install carries CE / EN 60335, TÜV, GS and VDI 6022 certification issued to its manufacturers — EOS, Sentiotec and Condair among them. Both sets go into the submittal.
Electric heaters, control panels and steam generators are low-voltage electrical equipment and fall under the Gulf technical regulation behind the G-Mark, administered by the GCC Standardization Organization and applied in Bahrain through the standards and metrology directorate at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. We close the conformity file before the container leaves Türkiye and treat clearance — by sea into Hidd or by road across the causeway — as part of our scope.
Through humidity and salt rather than heat. Wet-area ventilation is sized on latent load rather than air temperature, vapour barriers assume a saturated room inside a cooled building, and anything exposed outdoors — condensers, fixings, timber — is specified for marine conditions. On reclaimed coastal plots we also design tanking and drainage for a high water table.
Both. On a hotel, resort or members'-club project we work as the specialist thermal and wet-area subcontractor under the main contract, and can also act as spa design subconsultant to the design team. On a villa we work directly for the client or alongside the interior contractor. The scope is identical either way: drawings, manufacture, installation, commissioning and after-sales.
Send the architect’s drawings or the tender documents to the contractor in Bahrain who will actually build the rooms and we will come back with a position-by-position quotation, a preliminary plant schedule and a delivery programme. We respond within one business day.
Manufactured in Istanbul, delivered to Bahrain
Regional coordination from our Gulf office in Dubai
+971 58 558 1295
info@saunadekor.com
We do not operate a Bahrain office or a local line —
enquiries are handled by the Gulf team and on site by appointment.
