Most recovery room owners size their chiller based on foot traffic.
That is the single biggest sizing mistake in the industry.
Here is why.
People don't plunge once and leave.
They do two to three rounds of contrast therapy per session.
Hot - Cold
Hot - Cold
Hot - Cold
So every person is doing two to three plunges.
If you estimated 100 people per day, that's 200 to 300 heat loads.
Now add sauna into the equation.
Someone walking straight from a sauna into the ice bath adds roughly 50 percent more heat per plunge than someone who didn't.
And in most recovery rooms, the majority of members are doing contrast therapy.
So that 100 people that became 300 plunges, all of a sudden becomes 450 heat loads.
Now, does everyone do three rounds of contrast therapy?
No, of course not.
But it's a massive % of users - somewhere around 80%.
But this is a major contributing factor as to why the tubs are perfect at 6:00 am but slowly creep up across the day.
The chiller might catch up overnight when it is cooler and nobody is swimming.
But during your busiest hours, the heat is pouring in faster than the chiller can remove it.
And that gap is what your members feel.
If you want to know the real heat load your chiller is up against, hit reply and we will run through the numbers based on your actual usage patterns.
Not just headcount.