★ SOSA for Hair Transplant and Hair Restoration Clinics
₹11,999 against twenty lakh is a rounding error - which makes it an easy decision, not a profitable one
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★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★ The machine, once the interior itself is already right
SOSA VaayuReception and waiting, at a low settingView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuApp timers, clinic hours onlyView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuKey-lock, so the level cannot creep upView ₹11,999
✓ Waterless and under 38dB, so there is nothing damp and nothing audible anywhere near rooms that do surgical work ✓ One machine, one price, and no suggestion anywhere on this page that it returns anything to the practice ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Hair Clinics
What does it actually do for an interior like mine? It stops the one sense you have not controlled from contradicting the four you have. You have chosen the light, the stone, the joinery, the seating and the sound. Smell is usually the channel left to whatever the cleaning trolley put down that morning, and it is the only one nobody signed off. Correcting it is genuinely worth having and it is genuinely small - the last five per cent of an environment you have already got right. It cannot make a mediocre clinic feel expensive, and it will not be the thing anyone remembers.
What is the total spend, honestly? One SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, and nothing else to buy for the first three months at least: the box includes 4 × 100ml of oil and the 400ml tank runs 90+ days a fill. No cold-air refill is currently sold separately, so further refills should be confirmed with SOSA rather than assumed. If your patient-facing area is under about 750 sq ft, the honest machine is a SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 5 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is an independent brand and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel named for reference. Coverage, fragrance usage and running cost depend on the space, settings and hours of use, and are confirmed on a consultation. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
There is something slightly dishonest hiding inside this question, and I would rather point it out than take advantage of it. A number that looks small next to a much larger number is easy to approve. That is not the same thing as being worth it.
Quick answers — read this first
Is professional scenting worth adding to a clinic that has already cost twenty lakh? Usually yes, for an unglamorous reason: at ₹11,999 the machine is around half a per cent of what you have already committed, so the decision is small enough to make on judgement rather than on a business case. What it is not is an investment. No one can honestly tell you the money comes back, and anybody who does is selling you a machine on a promise they cannot keep. Add it because the air in your reception currently disagrees with the rest of the room, or leave it alone.What does it actually do for an interior like mine? It stops the one sense you have not controlled from contradicting the four you have. You have chosen the light, the stone, the joinery, the seating and the sound. Smell is usually the channel left to whatever the cleaning trolley put down that morning, and it is the only one nobody signed off. Correcting it is genuinely worth having and it is genuinely small - the last five per cent of an environment you have already got right. It cannot make a mediocre clinic feel expensive, and it will not be the thing anyone remembers.
What is the total spend, honestly? One SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, and nothing else to buy for the first three months at least: the box includes 4 × 100ml of oil and the 400ml tank runs 90+ days a fill. No cold-air refill is currently sold separately, so further refills should be confirmed with SOSA rather than assumed. If your patient-facing area is under about 750 sq ft, the honest machine is a SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy.
The short answer
Short answer: worth adding only in the sense that it is small enough to decide on judgement - ₹11,999 against a twenty-lakh fit-out is roughly half a per cent. It is not an investment, and nobody can promise it returns anything to the practice. Reception, waiting and corridors only; procedure, recovery and photography rooms stay unscented. Under about 750 sq ft it is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 instead.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) on the reception air path at a low setting if the clinic is past roughly 1,500 sq ft, or one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) if the patient-facing side is a single reception.
Next step: send the floor plan and a short note on what the twenty lakh actually went on, and we will tell you whether scent is the missing five per cent or whether something else in the room is - Ask for a clinic scenting plan.
In this guide
The proportion is real and it is a fair reason to stop agonising over the decision. It is not a reason to expect anything back.
The reception machine - tap to see the specification
For a clinic past 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
The next decision along
When should I plan scenting for a new clinic?
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Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
Is professional scenting worth adding to a hair clinic that has already cost twenty lakh or more to build?
In most cases yes, and the reason is proportion rather than performance. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 against a twenty-lakh interior is about half of one per cent of what you have already spent, which is less than you probably spent on the reception chairs and considerably less than the signage. At that scale the decision does not deserve a spreadsheet. You can make it the way you made the decision about door handles: does it improve the room or not. But I want to be precise about what that argument does and does not prove, because the same arithmetic gets used badly all the time. A small number is easy to approve. It is not thereby a good return. Nobody - not me, not any scenting company you speak to - can promise you that ambient fragrance returns that ₹11,999, or moves any number your practice runs on. It does not, and there is no honest way to model it. If you are looking for a business case, there isn't one, and the correct response to that is either to buy it because you want the room to be right or to spend the money elsewhere. What scent can genuinely do at this level of interior is remove a contradiction. When someone spends twenty lakh on a hair clinic, they are controlling every channel a patient reads the room through: light, material, colour, sound, temperature, the state of the desk. Smell is nearly always the one channel left uncontrolled, and it defaults to whatever was last cleaned, whatever came in off the street, and whatever the previous appointment brought with them. That is not a disaster. It is simply the one part of a carefully specified room that nobody specified, and correcting it is the last five per cent of an environment you have already got right. Do not expect it to be more. It cannot make a mediocre clinic feel premium, and on an interior this good it is not the thing anyone will remember. Three limits I would rather write down than leave implied: this is an interior and hospitality decision with no clinical or therapeutic claim of any kind; it works alongside your cleaning and ventilation rather than instead of them, and is never used to mask another smell; and procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms stay completely unscented, with your judgement as the treating clinician overriding any plan in your own rooms. If the patient-facing area is under about 750 sq ft, buy the SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 and put the difference somewhere you can see it. Ask for a clinic scenting plan and send the floor plan before you buy anything.
₹11,999 against twenty lakh is about half a per cent, which makes this easy to decide rather than profitable. Nobody can promise it returns anything. Reception and waiting only, clinical rooms never, and under 750 sq ft buy the ₹1,899 machine instead.
For a clinic past roughly 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu - waterless, under 38dB, rated to 1000m³, with adjustable intensity and a key-lock. ₹11,999, which on a twenty-lakh fit-out is about half a per cent. Under 750 sq ft, buy the Sukoon at ₹1,899 and stop there.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a clinic scenting plan
The proportion, stated plainly
Half a per cent of the fit-out, and no promise attached to it
The machine, by clinic size
The proportion argument does not decide which machine you buy - floor area and air path do that, and a big interior budget is no reason to buy the bigger machine. The images link to the product pages so you can check the specifications yourself.
Clinics past about 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft. 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill, Bluetooth app with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, 5W, auto-stop and key-lock. Wall or HVAC mountable, which is how scent reaches a corridor rather than sitting around the desk.
From ₹11,999
Clinics under about 750 sq ft - buy this instead
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances. A large interior budget does not make a small reception bigger. If the patient-facing side is one room, this is the honest buy and a Vaayu would spend its life well below what it is rated for.
From ₹1,899
Three things the proportion argument hides
The half-a-per-cent line is true and I use it myself. It also quietly conceals three things, and a founder about to spend money deserves all three.
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Separate cheap from worthwhile
Small enough to approve is not the same as certain to pay
The whole force of this argument is comparative: ₹11,999 looks like nothing beside ₹20,00,000, so the mind files it under trivial and approves it. That is a fair way to make a small decision and a terrible way to justify one. Every scenting company in the country uses this framing, and most of them then slide straight into a sentence about what the machine will do for the practice. I will not, because the sentence is not available honestly. There is no measurement, no study of your clinic, and no mechanism by which I could know. Buy it because the reception currently smells of nothing in particular and you would rather it smelled of something you chose, and treat any predicted return you are shown as marketing.
Tip: If a supplier offers you a payback period on ambient scent, ask what they measured and in whose clinic. The answer will end the conversation.
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Check the room before you add to it
If the building has a smell problem, this is not the purchase
A twenty-lakh interior can still sit on a drainage trap that dries out, a monsoon-damp wall, an AC return that has never been serviced or a store cupboard nobody opens. If there is a real odour source in the building, adding fragrance is the wrong move and I would rather lose the sale than pretend otherwise - scent is never a way to cover another smell, and doing it produces a room that smells of two things instead of one. Fix the source first with your facilities engineer and your cleaning contract. Ventilation, cleaning and infection control belong to you and your team, and nothing on this page replaces any of them. Once the air is genuinely neutral, then a machine is worth discussing.
Tip: Walk in from the street at nine in the morning before anyone has cleaned, and again at six in the evening. Two honest data points, no cost.
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Spend it on restraint, not on reach
At this budget the temptation is to buy too much machine
Founders who have spent well tend to buy up the range on instinct, and with scenting that instinct produces an over-scented reception. The useful features of a Vaayu at ₹11,999 in a clinic are not power. They are adjustable intensity, the 1h/4h/8h/24h timers so it only runs in clinic hours, the key-lock so nobody raises it over a month, and the fact that it is waterless and adds no moisture near rooms that do clinical work. A clinic reception uses a fraction of the rated 1000m³, which is exactly what you want. The intensity test never changes: if a patient can identify the fragrance, it is too strong.
The SOSA principle
₹11,999 against twenty lakh is a rounding error, and a rounding error is a reason the decision is easy - never a reason the money comes back.
The proportion tells you how little you are risking. It tells you nothing whatsoever about what you are gaining, and I would rather you heard that from me.
The plan, zone by zone
Here is the whole spend written out as a plan, so you can see how little of the clinic is actually involved.
The SOSA plan
What the money buys, and what it deliberately does not
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The interior itself
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Already done. Light, material, joinery, seating and sound do the heavy lifting, and scent changes none of them. |
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The machine
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One unit for the whole patient-facing side. Past 1,500 sq ft that is a Vaayu at ₹11,999, set low on a timer. |
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A smaller clinic
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Under about 750 sq ft, one Sukoon at ₹1,899 in reception and nothing else. The bigger machine would be the wrong buy. |
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The zones it covers
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Entrance, reception, waiting lounge and corridors. One profile, one level, carried from a single source. |
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The rooms it never enters
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Procedure and graft rooms, post-procedure and recovery, photography and documentation. Unscented, not lightly scented. |
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The return
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None promised, none implied, none measurable. Treat the ₹11,999 as part of the interior, not as a line with a payback. |
If the clinic is not built yet, the timing question is the more useful one and it is answered in when to plan ambient scenting for a new hair transplant clinic, which mostly comes down to not switching anything on until the fit-out smell has gone. And if you are weighing this against the cans of freshener you are already buying, the arithmetic is set out in the cost difference between room fresheners and a dedicated scent system, with all its assumptions on show. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
One machine, one zone, one level
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 covers up to 1000m³ - more than a clinic reception needs, which is why it runs at a low setting rather than working hard.
I would rather sell you a ₹1,899 machine you actually needed than a ₹11,999 one justified by how small it looked next to your interior bill.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why restraint is the specification
On a good interior, the risk is always too much rather than too little
The SOSA hair-clinic specification
Two machines cover almost every hair clinic in the country and the choice between them is a question of floor area, not of interior budget. Both are dry enough to sit on the public side of a building that does surgical work. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA hair-clinic specification
The machine chosen by size, not by what the fit-out cost
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A single reception, patient-facing area under about 750 sq ft | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, the honest buy at this size whatever the interior cost | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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Reception and corridors, clinic 1,500 sq ft and up | 1000m³ (about 2,000-3,000 sq ft), adjustable intensity, app timers, under 38dB, key-lock, waterless, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
Choose the machine by the size of the patient-facing area rather than by what the fit-out cost, set the level by walking in from outside rather than by your own nose, and keep every clinical room completely unscented. Fragrance here is an interior decision like lighting or seating and makes no clinical or therapeutic claim; it works alongside cleaning and ventilation, never instead of them, and is never used to cover another smell; and no one can promise you that scent returns money or moves any number your practice runs on. Warranty, maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed with SOSA before you order. Ask for a clinic scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
Founders almost never ask me this question neutrally. They ask it having already decided, wanting a number that makes the decision defensible, and the number they are hoping for is a return. I do not have one and I will not invent one. What I do have is the proportion, and it is genuinely useful: ₹11,999 on a twenty-lakh interior is about half a per cent, which is roughly what you spent on the plants. A decision that size does not need a business case. It needs you to look at your own reception and decide whether the air in it belongs to the room.
The substance is that a very well-built clinic usually has exactly one unmanaged channel left, and this is it. You chose the stone, the lighting temperature, the chair fabric, the music if there is any, and then the smell of the place is whatever happened to it that morning. Fixing that is a small, real improvement and I would describe it as coherence rather than luxury. What it is not is a differentiator. It cannot lift a clinic that is not already good, it is the last thing anyone notices, and it is the first thing that goes wrong if you set it too high.
On hardware I would rather undersell. Past about 1,500 sq ft, one Vaayu at ₹11,999 on a low setting and a timer. Under 750 sq ft, a Sukoon at ₹1,899 and nothing more, whatever the interior cost. The rooms where you actually operate on people get nothing at all. And I will say plainly what I cannot say: nobody can promise you this money comes back. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
I have spent 20 lakh and more on my hair clinic interior - is professional scenting worth adding?
Usually yes, but for a proportion reason rather than a performance one. One SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999 is about half a per cent of a twenty-lakh fit-out, which makes it small enough to decide on judgement. It is not an investment and nobody can promise the money comes back. Add it if the air in your reception currently belongs to nobody, and only after you are satisfied the building has no real odour source of its own.
Will ambient scent give me a return on that spend?
No one can promise you that, and I will not. Ambient fragrance is an interior decision in the same family as lighting, seating and sound. It can stop the environment contradicting the rest of what you have built, which is worth having and is a different claim entirely. Any supplier offering you a payback period, an uplift figure or a percentage is describing something they have not measured in your clinic and cannot measure.
Does a bigger interior budget mean I should buy the bigger machine?
No. Machine choice follows floor area and air path, not what the fit-out cost. Under about 750 sq ft of patient-facing space, one SOSA Sukoon at Rs 1,899 is the honest buy and a Vaayu would run well below what it is rated for. From roughly 1,500 sq ft, or wherever there is a corridor and closed cabins for scent to travel along, one SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999 is the right specification.
Which rooms in the clinic does the machine actually serve?
The entrance, reception, waiting lounge and corridors, and nothing else. Procedure and graft rooms, post-procedure and recovery areas, and photography or documentation rooms stay completely unscented rather than lightly scented. A faint drift from reception through an open door is unavoidable and acceptable; a scented clinical cabin is not, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any plan in their own room.
Are there ongoing costs I should budget for?
The Vaayu ships with 4 x 100ml of oil and the 400ml tank runs 90 or more days a fill, depending on intensity and run hours, so there is nothing to buy for the first few months. No cold-air refill oil is currently sold separately, and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA rather than assumed. Warranty, maintenance contracts, installation and any bulk terms are not published and should be checked before ordering.
Half a per cent of the interior, and no promises attached
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for hair transplant and hair restoration clinics
The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) covers up to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft, and runs at a low setting in a clinic reception; below about 750 sq ft the honest answer is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 instead. Waterless, under 38dB, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Send your floor plan and we will mark which zones qualify.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the planning advice applies to any brand.Facts verified 5 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is an independent brand and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel named for reference. Coverage, fragrance usage and running cost depend on the space, settings and hours of use, and are confirmed on a consultation. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.