Custom built to customers individual requirements
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Since starting to build stoves in 1982, we’ve fitted approximately half the stoves we’ve made. This has given us an intimate feel not just of how stoves operate in different circumstances, but how they connect to the structure of the house; whether they radiate directly to space, or into the chimney base as a heat sink, or are wet-lined to run central heating systems. Because each job is different, we have to respond to the customers’ preferences as well as the exigencies of required heat. The designs are being continually stimulated. We’ve put stoves in boats and caravans, cottages and country houses; workshops and conservatories, barn conversions and architect designed spaces; from 4 kilowatt wood burners to 40 kilowatt multi fuel hi-output boilers we have a catalogue of literally hundreds of different stoves. True, they are generally developed from our four basic designs that have evolved over the years, but we are always open to new ideas. |
Our customers are genuinely
dynamic partners in the design process, and we encourage dialogue. The bulk of any information about a stove is obviously going to be about
design, what a stove will do and how it does it. But with a small business
like ours the finished product is each individual stove; we have at
the moment a dozen stoves on the workshop floor under various stages
of construction, and only two of those stoves happen to be the same.
These are various principles that have taken form over the years, shaping
the stove for maximum radiation; bottom hinged doors for safety; strength
for longevity; straightforward operation and maintenance; and, always,
simplicity, not just for the customers benefit, but also so we can afford
to make them!
Our four basic models are starting points from which we develop each finished item in conjunction with the customer. This principle has been such a powerful machine for product development that we will always maintain a custom-built facility. |
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Our stoves are sufficiently unusual in appearance for the uninitiated to need reassurance. So if you’d care to click on our original designs page, I’ll try to explain how the things have come about, and why they look the way they do. You can also view some of our existing installations.
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