Dowling Stoves - Strongest in the world

   If you’re searching for stoves, you will probably already appreciate the advantage that an enclosed stove has over an open fire: an efficient, controlled burn that doesn’t suck all the warm air out of the house.

    Any stove should offer at least a four fold saving in fuel, 'half the fuel, twice the heat' is a modest claim.

    As well as the comfortable heat a stove produces, it allows the house to breathe, as opposed to a gasping open fire, or a stultifying gas or electric heat it has the potential of being completely sustainable for the environment (burning wood releases the same CO2 to the atmosphere as does the process of natural decay, and the equivalent volume of timber will reabsorb the CO2 as it grows). So you win all round!

    What advantage then, in a Dowling Stove as opposed to other stoves?

    Our stoves are fabricated (that is, cut and welded, as opposed to pressed) completely in high quality mild steel, which has the tensility to absorb the heat stresses that would crack unprotected cast iron. We use heavier gauges than any other stove on the market for a multi-fuel stove, 8mm upper body up to 25mm for the grate plates.

    No fire bricks, ceramic rope or handles, nuts and bolts etc. Building with craft techniques means a different economic equation to produce each stove... The material is only a small proportion of the cost, so we can afford to whack on the steel; a high labour content means we have to keep the detail simple, however – so no ornament; we get the shape to do the work. Again, the gauges of steel we work in mean that we can be adventurous with the shapes. We’ll admit that strength is not the only consideration for a stove...but it gives us an edge: if a stove is built to last a lifetime.

    It’s long term value is greatly increased.

    With a Dowling stove, you don’t need to replace fire bars every two or three years, re-seal the doors, or replace cracked cast iron panels.

    Our boilers are built of a minimum 6mm steel, and tested to 60 p.s.i (as opposed to the usual 40 p.s.i.)