Solutions / For recovery studios
The service your sauna-and-ice members ask for next.
Contrast therapy brought them in. A chamber is what keeps the membership climbing — a booked, timed, premium slot that runs while the rest of the floor keeps turning over.
The situation
Why this comes up.
Recovery studios live and die on utilisation. Sauna and plunge are cheap to run but hard to differentiate, and every new studio in the suburb offers the same stack. A chamber is a booked appointment rather than a walk-in, which changes the revenue shape of the floor.
What changes
Four things that make it work here.
Booked, not walk-in
A 60–90 minute session is scheduled, prepaid and predictable. It fills the quiet middle of the day rather than competing with your 6am peak.
A visible reason to upgrade
Chambers photograph well and give members a concrete reason to move to a higher tier rather than a vaguer promise of "more".
One power point
The TRIAD engine puts compressor, oxygen generation and cooling in one 82 kg cabinet. No plant room, no gas cylinders, no cylinder deliveries to manage.
Quiet enough for the floor
At or below 20 dB inside the chamber and 50 dB at the engine, it runs beside a class space without competing with it.
Recommended
Start here.
One recommendation, then the two we'd compare it against. Send us the room and we'll confirm.
CORE Solo
Most recovery studios start here. It is the widest single-person hard-shell that still fits a standard treatment room, and it photographs well enough to carry the upgrade pitch.
Full specification →CORE Solo
Sealed hard-shell · seated · 1 person · 2.0 ATAThe classic clinic width and the quietest platform we stock. A panoramic port, a touch console, and a door a client opens themselves.
- Chamber 2000 × 980 × 1700 mm
- Engine 570 × 520 × 905 mm · 82 kg
ARC Studio
Sealed hard-shell · seated · 1 person · 2.0 ATAA triangular footprint designed to take the corner of a room instead of the middle of it. The only true corner-fit chamber on either factory list.
- Chamber 1850 × 880 × 1520 mm
- Engine 590 × 520 × 903 mm · 82 kg
FLOW Seated 80
Soft-shell · seated · 1 person · 1.5 ATAUpright soft chamber with U-zip entry, for clients who would rather sit than lie flat.
- Chamber 1750 × 800 × 1320 mm
- Engine 420 × 400 × 768 mm · 40 kg
We carry far more than this. Three is deliberate — past three, buyers stop choosing and start shrinking the order. Tell us the room and we'll widen it if none of these fit. See the full range.
Before we deliver
What to have ready.
Short list. We confirm all of it in writing before anything is built or shipped.
- 01
- Room with a lockable door or a screened bay
- 02
- Standard power point on an RCD-protected circuit
- 03
- 5–10 L of purified water for the cooling loop
- 04
- Clear delivery access — measure the narrowest doorway
Room layout
Where it goes in the room.
Drawn to scale around the CORE Solo — Sealed hard-shell · seated · 2.0 ATA · 330 kg. Send us your floorplan and we return it marked up.
- 01
- A former massage or treatment room is the usual home — 3.2 × 2.7 m is comfortable, 3.0 × 2.4 m is the practical minimum for a CORE Solo.
- 02
- Chamber against the long wall, door side facing the room so a client walks straight in. Keep 600 mm clear on the console side for the operator.
- 03
- TRIAD engine sits beside the chamber on the same power point; leave a hand-width of air around it. No plant room, no cylinders.
- 04
- Lockable door or a screened bay, a chair for the operator, and a shelf for towels and water. That is the whole fit-out.
Worked numbers
What one chamber returns.
Indicative only, based on the CORE Solo at A$62,788 inc GST. Three utilisation cases — pick the one that matches your floor. Excludes GST, staff time and finance; not financial advice.
| Conservative | Base | Strong | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions per week | 18 | 30 | 42 |
| Price per session | A$90 | A$110 | A$130 |
| Revenue per month | A$7,020 | A$14,300 | A$23,660 |
| Less power, water, consumables, cleaning (10%) | −A$702 | −A$1,430 | −A$2,366 |
| Net contribution per month | A$6,318 | A$12,870 | A$21,294 |
| Months to recover the purchase price | 9.9 | 4.9 | 2.9 |
| Net contribution over 5 years | A$316,292 | A$709,412 | A$1,214,852 |
Base case assumes the room is used a few hours a day, six days a week. The 10% allowance covers electricity, purified water, filters and clean-down; the engine runs from a standard power point and generates its own oxygen, so there are no cylinder deliveries in the number. Staff time, finance costs and GST are yours to add.
Typical fit-out
What it looks like in practice.
An illustrative scenario for this setting — not a named client. We walk through real installations on the call.
A two-room studio already running sauna and plunge converts its second massage room. The CORE Solo goes in against the long wall, engine beside it, operator chair at the console. Sessions are sold as a 60-minute booked add-on and as a fortnightly inclusion in the top membership tier. The room runs 10am–4pm on weekdays and Saturday mornings — exactly the hours the contrast suite is quiet.
- Recommended chamberCORE Solo
- Room drawn above3.2 × 2.7 m
- ServicesOne power point · no gas cylinders
- Installed & commissionedBy Oxivity, operators trained at handover
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