Ice Rooms and Ice Stations
Ice rooms and Ice Stations are extremely popular within Fitness Clubs and Health Spas with users looking to rebalance and cool down the body after a workout or heat treatment experience.
What is an Ice Room?
Also known as ice chambers, ice cabins, cold rooms, ice grottos or igloos, an Ice Room is a cold room where cooling technology is used to chill the air to below freezing point and create an invigorating thermal contrast to a sauna or steam room experience.
Designed to reduce body temperatures gently and ensure maximum health benefits, it creates the desired contrast that is so beneficial to our body, but in a less drastic way than a cold plunge pool.
This can be achieved through the distribution of precisely temperature-controlled air, ice walls water-cooled seats, “real” snow from water spray coming from small nozzles or even “snowfall showers”. Ice flakes from an Ice Station can also be rubbed on the body to help the cooling down process.
Ice Cool Solutions
Ice Room Construction Specialists
Whether you want an ice cave or snow chamber filled with real white snow or smooth glass block style outer shell or ‘Wedi Tiled’ style finish, we can advise you in detail on the structural conditions and the possibilities and design and build the perfect space for your needs.
Ice rooms can take different shapes and forms whether it be tiled or designed to replicate an igloo or the look and feel of a cave of ice with artificial rock blanketed with a fresh layer of snow to create a unique sensory experience. Other options include back-lit side walls clad with salt stone imitations resembling blocks of ice or modern illuminated glass façades.
The ice room experience can be further enhanced with ‘Ice Cool’ LED Lighting. It is even possible to use chromotherapy lighting with a succession of colours to create the right atmosphere, be it uplifting and invigorating or relaxing and calming. Indirect lighting and windows can also be embedded in the walls to create a spacious ambience.
Elevate Your Ice Cool Experience
Ice Station Design and Build
Complementing the ice-cold experience, an Ice Station or ice fountain dispenses cooling fine-crushed ice flakes through an ice chute into a bowl for an invigorating cool down body rub.
Having become increasingly popular as an aid to help cool down athletes’ inner body temperature after a hard work out and to reduce any swelling and ease aches and pains, they are now commonly found within spa, hotel or leisure facilities. The automatically dispensed ice flakes can be specifically applied to cool the extremities of the body, such as legs and arms.
Ice stations or ice fountains are often the focal point of an ice room. Free-standing or integrated into the wall, they come in various square or cylindrical shapes, and the materials used can include anything from ceramics, copper and glass to stainless steel. They are completely customisable adapting to the shape, colour and material of your wellness facility. There are virtually no limits to the ice fountain. Our ice station installations can also be placed on a wall or ceiling near a sauna or a steam room to achieve a prompt and optimal thermal contrast.
Ice Room Aftercare Support & Service
Ice Room Maintenance
We also offer a steam room maintenance service for customers across the UK. Designed to suit each individual customer’s requirements and budget, you can rely on Topline Pools and Wellness to keep your ice room in tip-top condition.
Our maintenance contracts are specifically designed to suit each individual customer’s requirements providing peace of mind that your ice room is being well taken care of.
Expertise and Industry Know How
Ice Room Design & Installation Recommendations
When designing an ice room and plant room layout, it’s essential to consider regulations and other factors such as space, insulation, drainage, ventilation, accessibility and ease of use.
Adequate space for the snow / ice delivery device, cooling plant, filtration and water sanitation equipment, pipework, pumps, fans, trimming and thermal protection and automatic machinery system must be all be allowed for.
Snow showers can be integrated in almost any space within a hydrothermal area. They can be designed as an open space or feature walls made of glass, natural stone or tiles. Sound or light effects can also be integrated.
Installing an ice station inside a snow room is recommended to obtain even greater effects from a contrast treatment.
The dispenser can be installed in the ceiling or in a side wall, both on the inside or outside of the ice room enabling the user to obtain even greater effects from a contrast treatment.
We have many years invaluable experience helping clients in the design, build, installation and maintenance of ice rooms and ice stations and have a thorough understanding of the considerations and complexities involved in the build of an ice room.
For more professional tailored guidance relating to wellness and plant room regulations in the UK or support with creating the best ice room layout for the space you have available, please don’t hesitate to contact our experienced team.