TULIKIVI RADIANT HEAT FIRE PLACE

Most conventional fireplaces are ineffective when it comes to heating. In fact, some fireplaces draw heat out of a room. So how can your love of a good, roaring fire peacefully coexist with the need to keep your house warm? One word: TULIKIVI (TWO-lee-KEE-vee). In Finnish, it literally means "fire stone". In English, it translates into one of the world's most beautiful and efficient ways to heat your house.

Tulikivi fireplaces come in many beautiful designs that will enhance any decor from traditional to contemporary. Standard options - including mantelpieces, benches, bakeovens, and decorative serpentine or roughface stone - make it easy to customize any of the basic models to suit individual heating, cooking, and decorating needs.

Heating capacity, which corresponds to the fireplace size, ranges from 750 square feet to almost 2,000 square feet. Choosing the right model depends on the size of the space you want to heat, how your house is insulated and laid out, as well as average seasonal temperatures in your region of the country.

Tulikivi fireplaces are manufactured in Finland. They have been tested both by the company's own laboratory and by well-known, independent testing facilities around the world. All of our fireplaces comform to international standards and quality norms. When it comes to testing, they even pass the strictest safety and environmental standards of the world.

Each Tulikivi Fireplace is unique, regardless of the model you choose. Every piece of soapstone used to construct your fireplace has its own individual character and special beauty formed over billions of years by nature.

The birth of soapstone
About 2,800 million years ago, magnesium-rich komatite lava erupted from fissures in the Earth’s crust in the area that is currently Eastern Finland. The 1,600-degree-hot lava swiftly spread far from the sites of the eruptions as undersea flows.

Between 1,900 and 1,800 million years ago, the tectonic plates of the Earth’s lithosphere collided in the area that is now Finland. This collision created the Svecofennian mountain chain, which is comparable to the Alps, and plucked ancient lava flows and their olivine into an almost vertical position inside the base of the mountain chain.

The pressure at a depth of close to ten kilometres beneath the ancient mountain chain was 2,000–4,000 atmospheres and the temperature 400-500°C. Aqueous solutions containing carbon dioxide flowed through the bedrock pores, transforming the olivine first into serpentine stone and finally into soapstone. This many-phased metamorphosis progressed in fronts and lasted tens of millions of years.

Nature’s dramatic show ended in a rare natural phenomenon: soapstone.

The Fine Particle Forum - formed as part of the FINE technology programme at TEKES (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) - presented the 2006 Fine Particle Achievement of the Year award to Tulikivi. One of the reasons given for choosing Tulikivi was the considerable effort the company has devoted to its new collection's cleaner combustion technology, which helps reduce emissions from small-scale burning of wood.

Tulikivi Fireplaces Can Also be Heated Electrically

Just think, you are going off for a ski weekend in the middle of January, the weather forecast is promising minus five degrees, you are certain that your water pipes will freeze during the two days that you are gone—voila! With a flick of a switch your electric coils in your Tulikivi are turned on and your fireplace produces the same comfortable radiant heat you experience when you burn a wood fire.

Electrical elements make your fireplace an all-around heater for your home or get-away cabin. The thermostat control enables you to choose the desired temperature and the timer switch enables you to gain savings by using the lowest electricity rates.

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