HUUM HIVE and HIVE Mini Sauna Heater
The HIVE is HUUM's floor mounted heater, a stainless steel frame carrying a large open stack of stones. HIVE suits big rooms, studios, and clubs; HIVE Mini is a slimmer version of the same idea for home saunas.
Member pricing is quoted directly with a specialist, and specifications and availability are confirmed on the same call.
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What’s in this buildout
A heater never arrives on its own. The buildout is everything it needs to heat a room.
The heater
HUUM HIVE or HIVE Mini, floor standing: HIVE 12, 15, or 18, or HIVE Mini 6, 9, or 11.
Controller, choose one
HUUM UKU Local or HUUM UKU Wi-Fi.
Sauna stones
HUUM sauna stones. Included and required.
Controller, choose one
Digital controller
HUUM UKU Local. Operated from the panel on the wall.
Wi-Fi controller
HUUM UKU Wi-Fi. The same control, plus starting and adjusting the sauna from your phone.
Your controller choice is confirmed in consultation alongside the electrical plan.
Sizing is matched to your sauna in consultation.
What we handle
We source quality products that we stand behind, for you, not for the brand, and we build the room around them.
Site preparation
Placement in the room, following the manufacturer's specification.
Delivery and placement
Freight coordination to your site, and the heater placed in the room it heats.
Assembly
Installed as part of the sauna build, with the stones loaded.
Electrical coordination
Electrical is coordinated through licensed electricians.
Protection
Guards and clearances set at install and checked when we come back.
Support after the build
Service and guidance after the build, from someone who picks up the phone in year three.
What we can put in writing.
Anything not listed here is confirmed with you during the consultation rather than published as a guess.
- Exterior dimensions
- HIVE: 22" diameter x 29.5"H; HIVE Mini: 18.1" diameter x 29.5"H
- Family
- HUUM HIVE Series
- Configurations
- HIVE 12, HIVE 15, HIVE 18, HIVE MINI 6, HIVE MINI 9, HIVE MINI 11
- Mounting
- Floor mounted, freestanding
- Material
- Stainless steel
- Control
- HUUM UKU, local or Wi-Fi
- HIVE 12 size
- 22" (560mm) diameter x 29.5" (750mm) high; heater weight 49.1 lbs; shipping weight with stones 577.1 lbs
- HIVE 15 size
- 22" (560mm) diameter x 29.5" (750mm) high; heater weight 51.3 lbs; shipping weight with stones 579.3 lbs
- HIVE 18 size
- 22" (560mm) diameter x 29.5" (750mm) high; heater weight 53.5 lbs; shipping weight with stones 581.5 lbs
- HIVE Mini 6 size
- 18.1" (460mm) diameter x 29.5" (750mm) high; heater weight 35.9 lbs; shipping weight with stones 365.9 lbs
- HIVE Mini 9 size
- 18.1" (460mm) diameter x 29.5" (750mm) high; heater weight 40.3 lbs; shipping weight with stones 370.3 lbs
- Stone capacity, HIVE
- 528 lbs (16 boxes of stones)
- Stone capacity, HIVE Mini
- 330 lbs (10 boxes of stones)
- Heating elements
- Stainless steel, industrial quality
- Air tunnel
- Pre-installed HIVE air tunnel
- Made in
- Estonia
What the maker builds in.
What sets it apart
- Tall round stainless steel cage that holds the stones around the elements
- Deep stone bed: 528 lbs on the HIVE, 330 lbs on the HIVE Mini
- Stones sit in direct contact with the heating elements
- Built-in air tunnel shortens heat-up and extends element life
- Floor standing on adjustable legs, or set partly into the floor
- Runs from a HUUM UKU control; the HIVE sizes also take the UKU extension box
- The full-size HIVE suits large and commercial saunas
- Designed, engineered and made in Estonia
In the kit from the maker
- Heater
- Adjustable legs
- Pre-installed HIVE air tunnel
- Installation and operation manual
About this buildout.
The design puts the stones front and center. The steel frame holds far more stone than a typical wall heater, and the open stack radiates heat from the whole mass rather than a single hot face.
A big stone mass holds its temperature. The room recovers quickly after the door opens, and water ladled onto the stones returns long, generous steam. Members who run frequent or shared sessions feel the difference most.
Every HIVE runs on the HUUM UKU control, offered in local and Wi-Fi versions with glass and mirror faces, and stones are specified alongside the heater. We put the full buildout together, match the model to your room during the consultation, and handle delivery, assembly, and electrical coordination.
A specialist confirms the configuration and the site details with you, and pricing is quoted in that conversation.
The maker’s photographs.
Images: HUUM
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See this buildoutWritten from the builds.
Notes on the questions this format raises on a real site: the ground, the climate, the heat, and the choices that follow from them.
- Membership and processWhat really determines the cost of a home saunaThe sauna is the smallest moving part in a sauna project. What drives the scope of the work is the site, the access route, the pad, electrical coordination, format, wood, the heater, and the years after the build.
- Choosing a saunaWhat a wood-fired sauna stove buildout includesWhat a wood-fired sauna stove buildout from us includes, how a room heated by fire differs in use, what the site walk settles, and the Harvia and HUUM stove families we install.
- Climate and careWhy humid Kansas City summers change how a sauna dries outKansas City summers run humid through July and August, which changes how a sauna dries between sessions. What that means for ventilation, session spacing, and heater choice, separate from winterizing.
Questions about the HUUM HIVE and HIVE Mini Sauna Heater.
The standard behind it.
What comes with every sanctuary we build.
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- Local Service Guarantee
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