Town and Country Fires is a family run business based in Pickering on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors. Once farmers, the Thurlow family took the big decision to diversify and as a consequence started the stove business in 1977.

Gaining a wealth of experience over the years and using a combination of old and new techniques, has led to the company developing and manufacturing some of the best, energy efficient, solid fuel and wood burning stoves in the world.

The full range of solid fuel and wood burning stoves all carry certified efficiency ratings and comply with EN 13240 2001. They are also Hetas approved and C.E. marked.

All our stoves have an air wash to the glass, which works extremely well. Most have tertiary air at the rear of the fire box too, which burns off gases at the back of the fire that do not normally ignite, thus giving a very clean burn, causing less pollution in the atmosphere.

Town and Country Fires are one of the very few stove people who actually make the stoves from start to finish. We design and perfect the combustion in the stoves, so that they out-perform some of the very best stoves across the world. We buy best British steel, cut it accurately with a laser cutter, then bend it with a C.N.C press. The metal formed shapes are then passed to our robot welder which produces high penetration, extremely accurate joints. Once the bodies have been produced in this way, they are finished by hand, which includes shot blasting to enable a good penetration of paint. Some of the stoves are completely hand made, by staff who have worked for us for many years.

The smoke control Little Thurlow forburning wood in smokeless areas, has been put through stringent testing and has been approved with slight modifications, which shows how clean burning all of the Town and Country stoves are.

CAST IRON OR STEEL STOVES?

Steel is stronger and more durable as the seams are welded together, whereas cast iron stoves are bolted and sealed together with fire cement or rope. In time the bolts corrode and the stove is not airtight and not usable. Also cast iron is very brittle and may crack if heated up too quickly, the Town and Country stoves will expand and contract through operation and should last for 50 years or more. In the past bridges were all built of cast iron, but for the same reasons, they are not any more.

A Town and Country stove is one of the most efficient stoves on the market, up to 84% efficient as you can see by reading our brochure, so you can be assured you are buying a top quality stove at a reasonable price, which will keep your family and home warm for many years to come.

BURNING WOOD

Wood ought not to be burnt on a stove if it is not seasoned and dry, you pollute the atmosphere, tar up your chimney, and chimney fires are caused. Wood needs to be no more than 20% moisture content, and when buying wood straight from a local log supplier, they will not usually be dried and seasoned. Logs don't dry in a garage, they need to be out in the open, preferably with just a roof or cover over them.

When seasoned wood is burnt on a very efficient stove, you can produce over 5kW of heat per hour using only 1.5kg of wood - which is the equivalent of two hard wood logs, roughly 6" long x 3" diameter.

A Carbon Neutral Fuel

When trees grow they absorb carbon dioxide and generate oxygen. When wood is burnt in a stove or left to rot, it will release the same amount of carbon dioxide.