[ Heat ]
Sauna
Dry heat. Benches in timber that stays comfortable to touch, backrests shaped for the heat and löyly from water poured on the stones. Ayous on the benches, thermo-aspen on the walls.
80–100°CDry heat
[ What we build ]
Sauna, Steam Room, Hammam and Pool Manufacturer for Hotels and Villas in the UAE and the GCC
Short answer: Sauna Dekor manufactures and installs saunas, steam rooms, hammams, snow rooms, salt rooms, cold plunge pools, ice fountains, shock buckets, hydrotherapy pools and swimming pools. Each room is built to its own drawing in our Istanbul facility. This page lists every product and links to its page.
8 groups · rooms, pools and plantSince 1987 · 41+ countriesDesign · Manufacturing · Installation
Sauna Dekor — saunas, Turkish hammams, steam rooms, salt rooms and pools, manufactured since 1987 in our own facility in İkitelli OSB, Istanbul; 5,000+ projects in 41+ countries.
Finnish sauna, bio sauna, infrared sauna, steam room, hammam, Moroccan bath, snow room, salt room, ice fountain, shock bucket, cold plunge pool, hydrotherapy pool and swimming pools.
Sauna Dekor is a sauna, steam room, hammam and pool manufacturer and turnkey wellness contractor working for five-star hotels, resorts, wellness centres and private villas in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and across the GCC. We have manufactured in Istanbul since 1987, this is our 40th year, and our rooms are installed in 41+ countries. Every product below is delivered as a room and a system — cabin, plant, controls, waterproofing and commissioning — not as a boxed appliance.
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Rooms we build
Every room on this page is designed, manufactured and installed by Sauna Dekor. Filter by type; each frame opens the product page.
Product range
Complete product range
Every room and vessel Sauna Dekor manufactures and installs, on one page, grouped by what the room does. Sauna Dekor has manufactured in Istanbul since 1987, this is our 40th year, and our rooms are installed in 41+ countries. Each entry links to the page for that product.
Heat
Dry heat rooms
Cabins in which the air is heated and the humidity stays low or is added in controlled bursts. All of them are built to the dimensions of the room rather than bought as a boxed cabin, and all of them are issued with an electrical load, a supply and extract air position and a door swing before the shell is closed. The family index is sauna; commercial duty cycles for health clubs are set out in our note on the gym sauna.
Finnish sauna
Insulated timber carcass with a vapour barrier, thermally treated interior cladding and benching on a concealed frame, with a floor-standing or wall-mounted electric stone heater from EOS or Harvia sized to the cabin volume.
Infrared sauna
Low-temperature cabin using radiant panels instead of a stone heater. Panel positions are set out around the seating so the emitter faces the occupant, and the electrical load and control position are issued for coordination with the electrical contractor.
Bio sauna
Soft sauna run at a lower temperature with raised humidity from a combined heater and evaporator. Lining timber, fixings and bench detail are selected for repeated moisture cycling and the extract rate is set higher than a dry cabin of the same volume.
Hybrid sauna
A single cabin operating in two modes, a stone heater for Finnish bathing and infrared panels for low-temperature use, switched from one control. The room is detailed around the higher of the two conditions, so the programme can be changed later without rebuilding.
Panoramic glass sauna
Cabin with full-height toughened glass on one or more faces, used where the spa sequence is meant to stay visually open. Glass changes the heat balance, so the heater is sized upward, the bench line is set back and the glass is carried on structural posts.
Russian sauna
Banya: the same timber cabin as a Finnish sauna, run wetter, with the venik as part of the ritual.
Portable sauna
A cabin built to a fixed size in our Istanbul facility and delivered ready to install.
[ Steam ]
Steam room
Saturated steam at a lower temperature than a sauna. Mosaic over a wedi core, a ceiling sloped against drips and the steam generator outside the room, in an accessible plant position.
40–50°CSaturated steam
[ Stone ]
Hammam
The heat comes from the stone, not the air: a heated marble platform, marble basins, dome lighting and a scrub surface at a working height. Traditional, modern and Moroccan.
40–50°CRoom air
Steam & stone
Wet heat rooms
Sealed wet rooms rather than cabins: a tanked substrate, a vapour-tight envelope, coved floor transitions and ceiling falls set so condensate runs to the wall. Substrates are built on Schlüter-Systems KERDI board. The family index is hammam and steam room.
Steam room
Tiled steam room finished in mosaic or large-format tile over a bonded and taped KERDI envelope, with a Condair Sigma or Omega generator sized to the room volume and located in an accessible plant position. Drain, water feed and electrical requirements are stated on the submittal.
Turkish hammam
Hammam built to the room, with a heated göbek taşı at its centre, heated perimeter seating and kurna wash basins fed from the wall. The stone is laid over a heating circuit and a screed build-up that sets the finished floor of the whole wet zone.
Modern hammam
The same room in a contemporary material language: large-format stone or micro-cement, concealed lighting and a simplified dome. The heating circuit, waterproofing and drainage detail are unchanged from the traditional build.
Moroccan bath
Built wetter and warmer than a Turkish hammam and without a central heated stone. Treatment is carried out on the floor and on low benches, so the room is detailed for continuous water contact with generous falls and a gully sized for treatment water.
Rasul and mud bath
Mud application room with a domed or flat ceiling, heated seating, a mud dispensing point and a rinse shower inside the same enclosure. Finishes and drainage are chosen for clay residue rather than for soap.
Steam generator
Generator selection, sizing and integration for the steam rooms above. The equipment is manufactured by Condair — Sigma and Omega series — and is supplied with the manufacturer’s own certification; we specify it, install it and commission it with the room.
[ Cold ]
Cold & Contrast
The answer to the heat: cold plunge pool, snow room, snow shower, ice fountain and shock bucket — the step a guest takes after leaving the hot rooms.
2–15°CCold plunge water
Cold
Cold therapy
The cold stage of a thermal sequence. In every case the plant, not the vessel, governs the layout: chillers, ice machines and refrigeration units need a ventilated position, a drain and maintenance access, and their heat rejection has to be accounted for in the adjacent room.
Cold plunge pool
Stainless steel or tiled in-situ tank sited next to the heat rooms, with chiller, filtration and dosing in a separate plant space. Step and handrail positions, water depth, overflow arrangement and the surrounding non-slip finish are set out on the layout drawing.
Ice fountain
Flake ice bowl in stainless steel or stone next to the heat rooms, fed by a Scotsman flake ice machine that needs a water supply, a drain and a ventilated position for its condenser.
Snow room
Insulated cold envelope producing real snow inside the room. Built as a cold store: continuous insulation, a thermal break at the threshold, a vapour barrier on the warm side and a floor detail that accepts meltwater, with the snow generator and refrigeration plant remote.
Shock bucket
Tipping bucket that releases a single volume of cold water on a pull cord, in timber or stainless steel. The bracket is fixed back to structure because the loaded bucket and the tipping action put a live load on the fixing.
Snow shower
A ceiling unit that releases snow on demand — the cold step where a snow room does not fit.
Cryotherapy room
Cabins made by their manufacturers; we plan the room, the power and the ventilation around them.
[ Water ]
Spa & Wellness
Showers, hydrotherapy pools and hot tubs between the hot and the cold rooms. Each is specified against the water pressure, the drain and the control position.
30°CSpa pool water, typical
Water
Showers and water
Programmed shower stations and water vessels. Each is specified against the water pressure and the drainage capacity actually available on site rather than against a nominal head size. The family index is shower systems and pools.
Experience shower
Shower station combining programmed water sequences — cold mist, tropical rain, side jets — with light and scent from a single control, with the solenoid and mixing group in an accessible service zone. Flow, pressure, drain and electrical requirements are issued in advance.
Vichy shower
Horizontal rain bar of multiple heads running the length of a treatment table over a tanked and drained floor. The continuous flow makes the space a wet room rather than a treatment room: the floor needs a fall and a gully and the walls are tanked to full height.
Hydrotherapy pool
Warm water vessel with air and water jets, seating positions and a controlled turnover rate, built in stainless steel or as a tiled tank with its plant, dosing and filtration in an accessible room.
Spa and wellness
The whole circuit in one scope: heat, water, cold, treatment and rest rooms designed and built together.
Jacuzzi and hot tubs
Built-in hydromassage pools and Wellis hot tubs, with filtration, dosing and controls planned with the room.
[ Pool ]
Pool
Indoor, outdoor, Olympic, infinity, prefabricated and ornamental pools. The hydraulics decide the result, not the tiles: overflow channel, balance tank, filter flow rate and heat recovery.
25–28°CCompetition pools · World Aquatics
Pool
Pool types
Seven pool types, each with its own hydraulics, lining and plant.
Swimming pool
Concrete or stainless steel tank with a perimeter overflow channel or skimmer arrangement and a balance tank, coordinated with the humidity load the pool hall puts on the ventilation system. Types: indoor, outdoor, infinity, Olympic, ornamental and landscape and prefabricated pools.
Indoor swimming pool
Indoors the load is humidity and ventilation, so the air handling is designed with the pool.
Outdoor swimming pool
Planned to the size and ground of the site: excavation, waterproofing, concrete and lining.
Olympic pool
Competition pools to the World Aquatics facilities rules: 50 × 25 m, depth at least 2 m.
Infinity pool
One edge ends in a weir below the water line; the work is in the catch channel and the balance tank.
[ Rest ]
Salt, rest & therapy
Salt room, float tank room, hyperbaric chamber room, treatment and relaxation rooms: the quiet end of the circuit, each planned around the equipment it holds.
8room typesSalt · float · hyperbaric · treatment · rest
Rest
Salt, rest and support rooms
The quiet end of the circuit, plus the rooms a wellness floor needs around the thermal sequence. These are planned away from the plant and from wet-zone circulation so the heat and cold rooms can run at their own noise levels.
Salt room
Room lined with backlit salt brick or salt panel on a supporting frame, with a halogenerator dispersing micronised sodium chloride aerosol. Because salt is hygroscopic the room is detailed around humidity control, with a sealed envelope and a dedicated air handling arrangement.
Wellness room
Relaxation room for the rest stage of a sequence: heated loungers or a warm bench on a heated screed, indirect lighting on scenes, acoustic lining and a low, steady air change.
Massage and treatment room
Treatment room fitted out with the table, joinery, storage, lighting scenes and the acoustic and ventilation specification a therapist works to, detailed as part of the same package as the wet rooms.
Float tank room
Room built around a flotation vessel: acoustic isolation from the plant, a rinse shower inside the room, a salt-tolerant floor finish and filtration and dosing in an accessible position. Background reading: the float tank guide.
Hyperbaric chamber room
Room fit-out around a hard-shell hyperbaric chamber supplied by its manufacturer: floor loading, clearances, compressor position, acoustic treatment and the ventilation and electrical points the chamber requires.
Relaxation room
The last stop of the circuit: lounger count from capacity, quiet light and wipe-clean surfaces.
Heated relaxation lounger
Contoured stone, marble, ceramic or mosaic loungers with a heating circuit inside.
Red light therapy room
Beds and panels made by their manufacturers; we fit out the room, power and ventilation.
[ Movement ]
Fitness and sport centre wellness area
The wellness area of a gym or sports club planned as one zone — sauna, steam, cold plunge and showers — and specified for commercial duty cycles and cleaning access rather than domestic use.
1zoneSauna · steam · cold plunge · showers
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Complete installations
Where the brief is a circuit rather than a single room.
Thermal suite
The heat, cold, shower and rest rooms above, sequenced as one circuit and sized against guest numbers, with the plant, waterproofing and MEP interfaces coordinated as a single package.
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How our product range is organised
Everything on this page is delivered as a built room or an engineered vessel: a cabin or a shell, the plant that drives it, the controls, the waterproofing detail and the commissioning record. We manufacture the joinery and the metalwork in Istanbul and integrate equipment from established European manufacturers — heaters, steam generators, chillers and snow units — whose own certification travels with the equipment. Our company quality certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015.
| Family | Rooms and vessels | Typical brief |
|---|---|---|
| Heat | Finnish sauna, bio sauna, infrared cabin, steam room, hammam | Hotel thermal suite, gym wellness floor, villa spa |
| Cold | Cold plunge pool, ice fountain, snow room, shock bucket | Contrast circuit, recovery centre, performance gym |
| Water | Swimming, indoor, outdoor, infinity, Olympic, ornamental, prefabricated pools, hydrotherapy pool | Resort, residential and competition projects |
| Air and rest | Salt room, float tank room, massage and treatment rooms, hyperbaric room fit-out | Longevity clinic, day spa, wellness centre |
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Choosing between them
Most projects do not need one product, they need a sequence. Which rooms belong together, in what order and at what capacity is the subject of our guide to the thermal suite; how that sequence is sized against guest numbers and revenue is covered in hotel spa design. If you are at the stage of writing a tender document, our note on commercial sauna specification sets out what a usable specification has to contain, and what a spa consultant does explains where independent advice fits against a contractor’s scope.
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Who manufactures these rooms, where they are made, and what is bought in
The rooms listed on this page — the sauna cabins, the steam rooms, the hammam, the salt and snow rooms, the massage rooms and the shock stations — are manufactured by Sauna Dekor in its own workshop at İkitelli OSB, Başakşehir, Istanbul, where nineteen people work, and are installed and commissioned by the same company in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Pool shells are built on site by the same contractor rather than in the workshop. Sauna Dekor has manufactured since 1987, is in its fortieth year and has completed work in 41+ countries.
The appliances inside those rooms are not ours. Sauna heaters, steam generators, halogenerators, snow units, flake ice machines, filtration and dosing plant are bought-in equipment, made by their own manufacturers and supplied with those manufacturers’ certification. Sauna Dekor’s own certificate is TS EN ISO 9001:2015, covering the manufacture of sauna and spa products and after-sales service.
Comparison
Saunas, steam rooms, hammams and cold rooms compared
Operating ranges of the rooms we build. A Finnish sauna is the hottest and driest; a steam room and a hammam run cooler with far more moisture; cold rooms close the circuit.
| Room | Temperature | Humidity |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish sauna | 80–100 °C | 10–20 % RH (dry air) |
| Bio sauna | 50–65 °C | — |
| Infrared cabin | 45–60 °C cabin air | — |
| Steam room | 40–50 °C | Close to 100 % RH |
| Turkish hammam | Room air 40–50 °C; heated platform 40–45 °C | — |
| Cold plunge pool | Water 2–15 °C | — |
| Snow room | About −10 °C | — |
Sources: Sauna Dekor approved operating ranges (29 September 2026); Finnish sauna humidity: Hussain & Cohen, 2018; snow room: TechnoAlpin.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What does Sauna Dekor manufacture?
Saunas, bio saunas, infrared cabins, steam rooms, hammams and Turkish baths, cold plunge pools, snow rooms, ice fountains, shock showers, salt rooms, float tank rooms, treatment rooms and swimming, hydrotherapy and ornamental pools. Joinery and metalwork are manufactured in our Istanbul workshop; heaters, steam generators, chillers and snow units are integrated from established European equipment manufacturers.
Do you supply equipment only, or install as well?
Both. In the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the wider GCC we work as a turnkey contractor covering design, manufacture, delivery, installation and commissioning. Elsewhere we supply the package and provide installation supervision to a local fit-out team. The scope is agreed per project.
How long does a wellness room take from order to handover?
A single private sauna takes about 2 weeks from approved drawings through manufacture and installation, with shipping time on top; a hammam in a home takes 3–8 weeks. A hotel thermal suite runs longer, because waterproofing sign-off, MEP coordination and main-contractor sequencing sit on the critical path rather than the joinery.
Which countries do you work in?
We have manufactured in Istanbul since 1987 and delivered projects in 41+ countries. Our regular installation regions are the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the wider GCC, alongside Turkey and Europe.
Last updated: 12 November 2026
Who are these products specified for?
Five-star hotels and resorts, spa and wellness centres, recovery and longevity clinics, gyms and sports facilities, residential developers, and private villa owners. The same room is detailed differently for each: duty cycle, cleaning access and compliance change far more than the finish does.
[ Manufacturers we install ]
Heaters, steam generators, waterproofing, glass and snow technology come from these manufacturers; the equipment and its certification are theirs, the rooms around it are ours.
Equipment we supply and install
Which room fits your space?
Send us the plan; we will work out the room mix and the budget range with you.
Last updated: 12 November 2026