Wooden Hot/Cold Baths & Tubs

The 800 barrel seats one person upright and holds around 250 litres, which is the easiest to fill, chill and change. The 1250 tub is a single deep soak with room to lie back. The 1500 barrel seats three around the edge at around 880 litres, and at that volume a chiller earns its keep.

Either, in the same tub, with nothing to change. Pine is stable across the full range. Fill it hot for a traditional timber bath, or cold with ice or a chiller for a plunge.

Some seepage at the joins on the first fill is normal and it is how stave-coopered timber works. The pine swells on contact with water and the joins seal themselves within one or two fills. Fill and empty it once before your first proper use.

No. Chlorine breaks down the fibre of the wood itself. That is the trade-off of a tub with no liner: nothing synthetic between you and the water, and no chemical residual either. Keep the water fresh and clean the tub rather than dosing it. If you need a sanitiser residual, choose a stainless steel bath instead.

Yes, run as a single-bather plunge and drained every night. Each product page carries the full routine. What a wooden tub will not do is hold a sanitiser between bathers, so it does not suit continuous public throughput. Venues licensed as health establishments should check what their licence requires.

Rinse after use, drain fully, let it dry. Re-oil once or twice a year with a food-safe timber oil. That is the whole routine for domestic use.