The real fire that doesn’t affect a building’s insulation and air tightness

The Fondis range of insert fires, with their all-glass guillotine doors, gives you all the joy of a real fire but with the efficiency, controllability and low emissions of a modern stove. Available in a range of heights and widths, a Fondis insert fire draws its combustion air directly from outside and vents into an airtight chimney, so giving you a closed system.

Fondis make some of the most sought after insert stoves on the market. The aim of the French designers was to show as little stove as possible, instead simply giving you a window of fire. The Fondis trademark is the counterweighted all-glass guillotine door that rises up at the touch of a finger and disappears into the wall above.

As well as landscape and portrait models, Fondis also produce a double sided model which can be there as the centrepiece of an open plan space or set in the wall to bring firelight into two adjoining rooms.

A Fondis stove can be turned right down to tick over, keeping a beautiful flame pattern but just trickling out the warmth, making them perfect for well insulated new builds and extensions. Added to this is the ability with all their models to duct warmth to other rooms, enabling you to have a crackling fire in the living room without overheating the space. The stove can even be fitted with a special sensor that opens extra air inlets when the door is raised, which enables it to be burnt as an open fire.

A modern well insulated dwelling can be effectively heated with a heat pump, but having a real fire in the living room gives the home a heart as well as providing a much sought after selling point. Even more important these days, it gives a secondary form of heating in the event of a power cut.