Stone Fireplace, Stone Staircase, Limestone Fireplaces

We can supply many types of dog basket for your stone fireplace. We show a small selection on our fireplace accessories page, but if you have seen another type you like then please let us know and we will get one similar for you.

We only sell one make of wood stove. These are the Hunter range: A very good british made stove, and we normally find that a Hunter herald 8 ( or a 14 ) for large rooms, both looks good in a stone fireplace, and also provides a lot of heat. The key to efficient wood burning though, as ever, is ensuring that you only burn seasoned (dried) timber, and if you can get oak or ash, then all the better as they are by far the best wood to burn.

A wood burner in your stone fireplaces is a surprisingly maintenance free device. By burning dry wood, very little ash is produced, and you will find that you only have to empty your ash ‘pan’ about once evert two weeks. Also, as a wood stove is a closed heating appliance, it does not produce much dust or ash into the air, so again it need not be a ‘messy’ way to heat your home.

More and more these days, you’ll see where logs are actually used as decor. vertical piles of evenly sized split logs piled up either side of a stone fireplace, is a common illustration in contemporary home improvement magazines at the moment, and it means you can have a ready supply of fuel near to your fire, and that it gets a bit of extra drying in your house prior to burning!

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