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How to Run Useful Tests With Your Construction

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.” ― Thomas A. Edison Test Early, Test Often There are few things as terrifying as spending a...

Transducers: Turning Your Float Tank into a Giant Speaker

by Frank Ciavarello | Building, Planning

All good floats must come to an end… As a float center owner, you’ll have the ability to offer periods of intense isolation and quiet to your customers. That being said, we’ve received many questions about the best (and least disruptive) way of bringing your...

Don’t Squander Water in Your Showers

by Frank Ciavarello | Building

Once you start planning out the monthly costs for your float center, you’ll quickly come to appreciate a running joke in the industry: although you may think you’re providing floats, what you’re really doing is running a shower business.

Each person that floats at your center will take two showers: one before their float, and one after. These showers are definitely necessary. Before a customer enters a float tank, you’ll want them to shower in order to make sure that water contamination from skin oils and dirt is minimized, and after a float a customer is going to need a shower to remove the salty residue from their skin. READ MORE…

A Peek at the Float On Renovation

by Graham Talley | Building

Well, we did it again. We’ve been closed for 2 weeks of construction already, and we still have another week to go. We’re installing two new flooring and shower systems to test out, a new lobby wall for soundproofing, and we’re replacing one of our...

5 of the First Things To Do if You Want to Start a Float Center

by Frank Ciavarello | Building, Funding, Marketing, Planning, Water Treatment

One of the most interesting things I’ve discovered by fielding calls and emails from people through Float Tank Solutions is that floatation therapy has an uncanny ability to grab people. I’ve spoken to many dedicated floaters, still amazed by the therapy after decades...

Four Simple, but Important Lessons We’ve Learned About Float Room Construction

by Graham Talley | Building

1 – Put your shower directly next to the float tank. Don’t leave even an inch of room. Essentially you want an airlock but for salt- a saltlock. That way they go from their shower directly into the float tank and (more importantly) from the salty float...