As part of extension works at Salt Ayre Leisure Centre, Helo (UK) has provided a new health suite comprising four thermal rooms, shower and ice feature. The rooms were fi nished with large format tiles, decorative mosaic banding and wide glass frontage for a spacious, contemporary style with excellent heat experiences. Delivered within budget and program.

The centre piece is the Water Mill sauna with the water wheel invoking the old industries of the town. The water wheel heater brings theatre and infusion to the sauna. The water wheel rotates slowly in a counter-clockwise direction. At programmed intervals it rotates in the other direction scooping up water from the basin under the wheel and pours it directly into the cascade mounted over the heater creating a powerful and invigorating infusion effect.

The herbal bath is a lovely combination of gentle heat and humidity from a Bi-O-Max sauna heater. Theatre is added to the heat experience through regular sauna infusion of water and seasonal essence onto a copper tray above the heater. A decorative copper ice bowl and chute sits neatly in a mosaic tiled semi-circular recess. The ice in the bowl is lit from above and below. The ice level is automatically controlled by a sensor within the copper bowl so as to be permanently filled for the bather.