Overview
Sauna Dekor has been building saunas, hammams, steam rooms and wet spa areas since 1987 — this is our 40th year. We manufacture in İkitelli, Istanbul and take single-point responsibility for design, production, installation and commissioning. More than 35 countries to date.
This page records sauna work at the Pelikan Hill residential development in Istanbul. Thezone listed for the project is a sauna. Individual residents are not named.
Scope of work
Cabin work for a residential development rather than a one-off installation: the insulatedcabin build-up, internal linings and benching, heater and control, glazing, lighting, and theventilation and electrical interfaces with the building. Manufactured and dry-assembled in ourIstanbul workshop, then numbered, delivered and installed.
Designing a cabin to be repeated
A sauna built once and a sauna built repeatedly across a development are not the same designproblem. Repetition rewards decisions that a single cabin can get away with ignoring: a benchand lining module that can be cut without waste, a heater and guard arrangement that works inmore than one room geometry, a control position that suits both a left-hand and a right-handdoor, and a set of components that can be stocked as spares for the whole development ratherthan sourced per unit. It also rewards getting the ventilation strategy right once, because amistake repeated is a mistake multiplied. Seesauna andFinnish sauna.
Sizing, supply and unattended use
General practice sizes a cabin at roughly a kilowatt of stone-heater output per cubic metreof volume, with additions for glazing and for any masonry surface inside the envelope. In aresidential building the electrical supply per unit is often the real constraint — heatersabove a modest rating need three phase — so the available supply is confirmed before the cabinis designed. Because residents use these rooms without supervision, the heater is guarded withthe correct clearances, the control sits outside the cabin with a maximum setpoint and anautomatic run-time cut-off, and the door opens outwards without a lock. Oursauna rules page is written for thisaudience.
Ventilation, vapour barrier and the building
The cabin is an insulated box built inside the room: insulation, a continuous foil vapourbarrier with taped laps, a ventilated cavity, then the lining. That barrier is what protectsthe building — a cabin lined straight onto a masonry wall pushes moisture into the structureevery time it runs, and in a residential block that structure is shared with someone else’shome. Air enters low, near or under the heater, and leaves low on the opposite side, ductedinto the building’s system rather than vented into a corridor. More atsauna ventilation.
What we solved on site
Working across a development means installing in units at different stages of completion,sometimes with residents already in the building. We handled it by finishing everything in ourIstanbul workshop — dry-assembled, checked,dismantled, numbered — and delivering per unit, so each installation was a short, quiet,dust-free operation rather than a construction event. Seeservices.
