GLÔ HOUSE

About us

It started with a sauna we wanted to buy for ourselves.

Glô House was founded in South East London after regular sauna use quietly changed the way we felt, slept and recovered. When we went looking for one of our own, the UK market let us down.

Glô House Thermowood barrel sauna glowing at dusk in a British garden

We came to saunas the way most people do. A few sessions at a gym, then a week away somewhere with a cabin by the water, and then the realisation that the days we bathed were simply better days. Better sleep, looser shoulders, a clearer head. Within a few months it had become a habit we did not want to be without.

So we set out to buy one. What we found was a market split in two. There were budget cabins built to a price that would not survive a British winter, and there were genuinely premium products with a price tag to match. Neither offered what we actually wanted: high quality, honestly priced, and simple to buy.

The bigger problem was everything that came afterwards. Customers were left holding a pallet in the driveway, ringing round for a groundworker, chasing an electrician, booking someone to assemble it, and hoping the three of them turned up in the right order. The product was only ever half the job, and nobody was doing the other half.

That is why Glô House exists. We supply premium European saunas, handcrafted in Estonia by a family run joinery, and we take care of the whole process around them: delivery, foundation bases, professional assembly and Part P registered electrical installation where it is required. One company, one point of contact, one quote that covers all of it.

We keep the range deliberately small, because we would rather know a handful of products intimately and tell you honestly which one belongs in your home, or that none of them do.

Alder benches and heater stones inside a Glô House sauna

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Seamless service, end to end

5yr

Structural warranty

UK

Own delivery, install & electrics

Thermowood only

Every outdoor sauna we build is Thermowood

Every outdoor barrel sauna we build is made exclusively from Thermowood, timber modified at around 200°C using nothing but heat and steam. It costs us more than standard spruce, and we think it is the only material worth putting in a British garden.

Close detail of thermally modified Thermowood cladding on a Glô House sauna

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Greater durability

Thermal modification hardens the timber all the way through, so it stands up to British weather year after year.

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Resistant to rot and decay

Removing the resins and sugars leaves nothing for fungi and insects to feed on, without a drop of chemical treatment.

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Dimensionally stable

Far less expansion and contraction through wet winters and hot summers, so staves stay tight and doors keep closing sweetly.

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Low moisture absorption

Thermowood takes on a fraction of the water untreated softwood does, which is exactly what an outdoor sauna needs.

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Better insulation

A lower thermal conductivity means the cabin heats faster and holds its heat for longer, using less energy.

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Longer lifespan

Properly cared for, a Thermowood cabin comfortably outlasts a standard spruce one, the reason we no longer offer anything else.

Talk to us about your home, and we will quote the whole job, sauna, base, electrics and all.

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Newsletter

Quiet updates, a few times a year

New models, completed installations and the occasional note on building a garden ritual.