Warm wood sauna with backlit slat backrests, curved headrests, bucket, ladle and folded towel

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Gumush Residence Spa

Baku · Azerbaijan

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Sauna Dekor Spa Solutions — designing, manufacturing and installing saunas, steam rooms, hammams and pools since 1987, in our own facility in İkitelli OSB, Istanbul.

Hammam, sauna, steam rooms, ice fountain, shock bucket and fitness fit-out at Gumush Residence, Baku — heated marble, joinery and wet-area tanking.

Sauna
Steam room
Turkish bath & hammam
Fitness & sport centre
Shock bucket
Ice fountain

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[ The build ]

Overview

Sauna Dekor is a sauna, hammam and spa manufacturer and turnkey contractor. We have built thermal areas since 1987, we are in our 40th year, and our joinery, marble and cabin work is produced in our own workshop in İkitelli, Istanbul before it ships. Projects have been delivered in 41+ countries.

This page records the residents’ spa and fitness fit-out at Gumush Residence in Baku,Azerbaijan. The zones listed for the project are sauna, relaxation room, steam rooms, fitness and sport centre, shock bucket, Turkish bath, hammam and ice fountain.

Scope of work

One of the broadest packages on this portfolio: a marble hammam, a sauna, steam rooms,treatment rooms, a relaxation area, the cold side — an ice fountain and a shock bucket — andthe fitness centre fit-out including decorative mashrabiya screens and joinery. Our photographicrecord covers all of it. The contract ran from room build-up and tanking through stone, mosaic and joinery to equipment, ventilation terminals, drainage and commissioning.

When the spa and the joinery are one contract

A package this wide is normally split between a wet-area contractor and a fit-out joiner,and the split is where the problems appear: the joiner’s screens meet the wet contractor’stanking, and neither owns the junction. Taking both under one contract removes that argument.It also lets the same workshop that cuts the marble produce the screens and the benching, sothe geometry of a mashrabiya panel can be set out against the stone grid rather than fitted to whatever is left. Everything was dry-assembled and checked in ourIstanbul workshop before shipping, which for a project this size is the only way to know the parts will meet. Seeservices.

The cold side and the wet side together

An ice fountain and a shock bucket in the same area as a hammam and steam rooms means hot,humid air and cold surfaces a few metres apart, and the space between them is where condensation forms. Each cold appliance needs its own drainage rather than a shared floor gully— an ice machine produces meltwater and condensate continuously, and a shock bucket deliver sits whole volume at once, which a general floor fall will not clear. Both need floor falls that carry water away from a bare-foot area. Product pages:ice fountain,shock bucket andTurkish bath.

Heated marble, air zoning and tanking

The hammam is heated through its slab, navel stone and benches warmed from below, with slab thickness and circuit spacing set together and a soak period before use. Air is zoned by room type: sauna supply low at the heater with low extract opposite; hammam and steam rooms on continuous extract that runs past closing; relaxation, treatment and fitness areas kept dry and slightly positive against the wet circuit so humidity does not migrate onto upholstery,mirrors and equipment. Wet rooms were tanked before finishes — bonded membrane over the screed,tape into corners, movement joints and penetrations, falls in the screed, epoxy grout above.

What we solved on site

The scheduling problem on a package this broad is that the wet trades and the joinery want opposite site conditions: tanking and screeds need a wet, uncontrolled environment, decorative joinery needs a dry, finished one. We sequenced the two so the wet zones were closed out and dried before any screen or panel was delivered, and used the numbered-lot delivery system to keep finished joinery out of the building until it was ready for it. Seespa contractor.

Frequently asked questions

Why take the spa and the fit-out joinery as one contract?

Because the junction between them is where wet-area problems start. One contract removes the argument over who owns it, and the same workshop can set the joinery geometry out against the stone grid rather than fitting it to what is left.

What drainage does an ice fountain need?

Its own, not a shared floor gully. It produces meltwater and condensate continuously, and the floor around it must fall away from a bare-foot area. A shock bucket needs the same, sized for its whole volume arriving at once.

How do you keep humidity out of a gym next to a spa?

By pressure zoning. The wet circuit runs on continuous extract and sits slightly negative; relaxation, treatment and fitness areas are kept dry and slightly positive, so moisture does not reach upholstery, mirrors and equipment.

How are wet trades and decorative joinery sequenced?

Wet zones are closed out and dried before any screen or panel arrives. Finished joinery is held off site and delivered in numbered lots only when the building is ready to receive it.

Sauna Dekor’s own certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015 quality management, covering sauna and spa product manufacturing and after-sales service. The equipment we install carries CE / EN 60335, TÜV, GS, GREENGUARD Gold, FSC and VDI 6022 certification from its own manufacturers — EOS, Sentiotec and Condair among them.

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Sauna Steam room Turkish bath & hammam Fitness & sport centre Shock bucket Ice fountain

Gumush Residence Spa

Overview

Scope of work

When the spa and the joinery are one contract

The cold side and the wet side together

Heated marble, air zoning and tanking

What we solved on site

Frequently asked questions

Why take the spa and the fit-out joinery as one contract?

What drainage does an ice fountain need?

How do you keep humidity out of a gym next to a spa?

How are wet trades and decorative joinery sequenced?

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