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A modern approach to traditional steam bathing ..

HELO offers a wide range of products to make a domestic leisure facility a simple reality. Check below to see how easily our products may be incorporated into your home - a small generator in the loft delivering steam to your shower enclosure - a compact 1 metre square sauna cabin, paired with a shower enclosure to replace a bathtub - or a larger sauna in your garage or spare room to enjoy relaxing with family and friends.


For many years Helo has brough the time-honoured tradition of the Turkish Steam Bath to the British bathroom by adding steam conversion kits to regular showers.

At the same time, our Roma modular steam rooms have been offering safe, hygienic and comfortable steam bathing in countless leisure centres across the country.

Now with a new range of compact sizes, these highly efficient plastic steam cabins may be integrated into the modern luxury bathroom. With family or guests, you can enjoy the social and relaxing benefits of steam in the privacy of your own home.


Roma Steam Room

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Roma Steam Room

If you want a steam room to enjoy with family and friends at home, there is no better choice than Helo's Roma Steam Cabin!

The modular construction using durable lightweight ABS plastic panels offers significant benefits over more traditional tiled rooms:

ECONOMICAL - Superb insulation means lower power generator, usually less than half the kW required for conventional steam rooms

CLEAN & HYGIENIC - continuous smooth white panels are easy to keep clean and sideline worries over dirty grout, cracked tiles etc.

CONVENIENT & COMFORTABLE - ready for use in 10 to 15 minutes, the plastic moulded seats are warm and cleverly shaped to double as a bench for complete relaxation

SELF-CONTAINED & HASSLE FREE - As Roma is a free standing structure, you have only to provide the space and a drained floor for HELO to assemble your steam room with the minimum of fuss. The exterior may then be finished in the décor of your choice.

Roma rooms are offered in a variety of sizes suited to domestic situations - our 1.6m square and 2m x 1 m models, seating four in comfort are particularly popular - and you have the assurance that HELO provides the complete package: all panels and fixings, a quality safety glass door, steam generator with controls, low voltage lighting and vent outlet - with installation by our own fitting team.


Tiled Steam Room

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Tiled Steam Room

A bespoke built steam room designed by Helo's in-house architect and created by our own craftsmen provides you with the opportunity to own a unique steam room. Utilising modern composite materials to create a fully watertight enclosure, Helo can fit an unlimited choice of porcelain, ceramic or granite tiles to create a luxury steam room of virtually any appearance, shape or size.

Helo's philosophy regarding the internal finishes of such a steam room is to ensure that it complements the style used in the adjacent area. We accomplish this by working closely with you, your architects and interior designers.

Helo tiled steam room benefits from the tried and tested quality of the Helo steam generator. Designed for simple effective operation, Helo steam generators are exceptionally reliable resulting in long uninterupted service.


Helo Domestic Steam Kit

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Helo Domestic Steam Kit

For many, the idea of installing a Turkish Steam facility at home - to capture the unique pleasure of steam bathing in hotels and clubs - may seem daunting. In fact using HELO's steam kit to upgrade a regular shower, it could hardly be simpler! Over the past 15 years, many thousands of customers have taken this easy route to a luxury leisure facility in the bathroom:

Fit a steam generator in the loft or suitable cupboard - rest a purpose made acrylic dome on the shower frame - fix a fold up seat to the shower wall.

What you will need:

  • Regular shower tray - acrylic, steel or ceramic - in shape and size of your choice. When mounted 300mm above rim, steam outlet will not affect this. An optional "Weep Box" is available to catch drips and prevent marking the tray.
  • Shower door/enclosure of your choice - a sealed door is not appropriate, since a little steam escaping helps ventilate the steam room. Fit an extractor in the bathroom as you would for a normal shower. The shower door will need a frame for the dome to rest on. Some shower brochures note which models are tested for steam.
  • Shower enclosure built with backer board - WEDI or similar - and tiled surface with good quality grout. Better still, use Helo Shower Wall boards which will reduce heat up time, remove worries about grout discolouration and simplify fitting out.
  • Site for steam generator - usually the loft where you can link to cold water main, suitable electric supply and pipe a standard 22mm copper pipe to the steam outlet head.

    What we provide:
  • Fully automatic steam generator with scale resistant elements and low water level protection.
  • Controls to mount within the shower: ON/OFF safety button, LED for built in 25 minutes time and thermostat control with digital readout (NT model)
  • Acrylic steam dome with perimeter flange to trim to exact size and fixing brackets for shower walls. Clear or Opaque finish.
  • Fold up seat in polycarbonate or wood finish with neat wall brackets and tested to maximum weight 16 stone (subject to wall fixing)

Helo Domestic Sauna

For Finns, sauna is a way of life - from early times, sauna was the key room in any Finnish household - once used for cleaning, curing illness and even delivering babies, this form of bathing has become best known for relaxing the body and mind and for the ultimate sense of well-being which it imparts.

The concept is simple - a timber-lined room is heated to a temperature of 75 to 80°C; where normally such heat would be uncomfortable, in sauna, the wood absorbs the moisture and the dry atmosphere is pleasant for short periods, promoting heavy perspiration, opening the pores and deep cleansing the skin. Time spent in the heat is interspersed with an invigorating cold shower or plunge and enhanced by “loyly” - the Finnish term for sprinkling a little water on the hot rock, raising the humidity and creating a “wave” of heat which heightens the sense of relaxation and contentment. A period of rest following bathing consolidates the rewards of the sauna and is a social time to enjoy with family or friends.

Here are a few examples from our wide range.

 

 

 

Original Sauna

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SoftHot Sauna

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Bathroom Sauna

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Original Sauna

Original Sauna is Helo’s traditional home sauna line; offered in the most popular sizes and with fixed layout, there is no compromise in build quality. Carefully selected kiln dried Spruce panelling with Helo’s unique “softline” profile is used on all surfaces, discreetly pinned to a strong, insulated frame with foil vapour barrier. Interior furniture, including benches, duckboard and heater guard, is cool, splinter-free Abachi wood, and the classic Finnish heater has convenient built-in controls with up to 23kg rock for generous steam. The door is traditional Finnish timber framed with 3 glazed panels for a light airy interior.

SoftHot Sauna

Built to the same high standards as Original sauna, the SOFTHOT model includes a number of useful enhancements, in particular Helo’s Softhot heater (4.5kW and above) with convenient side mounted controls, an extra deep rock tray for plentiful steam and optional floor stand, offering greater versatility.

SOFTHOT is supplied from stock in 44 standard sizes and may be further modified as required by our fitters during assembly.

Bathroom Sauna

With overall size around 1 metre square and corner safety glass door, this sauna could be included in nearly any bathroom - indeed when fitted opposite a popular “Penta” style shower enclosure no more room is required than for a luxury bath! The smart Knotless Pine panelling will blend with light bathroom furniture or may be stained or painted to suit alternative finishes.
At 3kW the heater is wired to the ring main via a fused spur - choose between standard compact heater with easy, side mounted controls or optional Junior model with low voltage touch pad operation. A Bathroom Sauna Type II with similar specification but overall size 1.5 metres square is also available to special order.

 
 
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