Archive for the ‘Cast Iron Fireplaces’ Category
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Hello again todays little article is about a product we are getting asked for more and more but it only fits a few of our Fireplaces.
Brand new in the 2010 purple brochure photographed with the Pembroke Black Fireplace is an item called Deeper Back For Solid fuel use.
Basically this is an extra back supplied by us to replace the standard back that comes with the fireplaces it fits. It has been designed to increase the area for burning solid fuel fot the following three Fireplaces
Pembroke
Henley
Jubilee
These three very popular fireplaces have the option of the deeper back which to be fair does increase the size quite a bit and are ideal for customers wanting to use solid fuel fire regurlarly.
The original cast back is removed and this deeper one bolted on replacing it, as it is not tapered as much it forms a squarer opening and also it gains 65mm depth wise too so you have more room to throw on some more coal or a log or two.
It adds £105 to the price of a fireplace package as we have to replace the solid fuel kit with one with a bigger grate and ashpan too.
The damper flap is the same size with the same design on it so if you you wish to use your fireplace for solid fuel regurlarly consider having one of theose three fireplaces and then we can offer you the Deeper back to go with it.
Will add photo next week of the items when i remember to take my camera to the Factory
Tags: Deeper Back, Henley, Jubilee, pembroke, solid fuel
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
We sell a small combination fireplace on our website called the Daisy which is available in Black or a Highlighted Finish.
It is made by Gallery but has been dropped from the 2010 brochure but is still available to us as and we will continue to stock it.
Today i have had a phonecall from a lady in Redcar enquiring whether we had the Daisy in stock as she had ordered one from B and Q in January but they telephoned her today telling her they are not in stock till May along with their small cast iron hearth.
Now May in my mind is a long way off seeing as we have only just started March that leadtime is wrong.
I find it really strange how a huge company like B and Q can run out of such items and what are there re ordering levels like to be without an item from January to May.
The Fireplace they supply is not the Daisy Fireplace and we are not short on stock of them so we have yet another order in the bag and the item on its way to Redcar next week again down to yet another comapny who can not supply goods in time for the customers needs.
Also today we have had someone order a fireplace from Shropshire and drive to Nottingham to collect it as the one he bought from ebay was missing parts and was not as described.
Beware of cheap items on any auction sites there always cheap for the wrong reasons
Tags: B and Q, Cast Iron, Combination, Daisy, Granite, Hearth
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
A nice question to answer and yes we really do sell gallery fireplaces at the prices we sell them at no copies no rejects just genuine gallery fireplaces at the best prices.
I was asked the above question about the Gallery Pembroke Black Fireplace package for solid fuel use with the extra deep back today.
All these items are in stock to ready to take away or be delivered so when i told the customer it was £570 delivered to Evesham this Friday they were very happy.
The lady who ordered asked me again if there were the same ones that appear in the Purple Gallery brochure as she had been quoted £1100 from her local fireplace shop and it would take a minimum of two weeks for it to arrive to them.
Being wary of using the internet to place an order she found our contact details very easily and called us to ask the questions and find out how long delivery would take.
Also with us being open on a sunday when others are shut she found it great that she could speak to someone then and there.
Always one to offer the best customer service its all part of our normal job but we realise how frustrating other companies can be who do not return emails or calls but they thats there loss.
So another order in the bag loking forward to tomorrow now for our new vehicle
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Early this evening at 6.30 pm we had a call from a Mr C in Herefordshire asking if we have a 54″ Black Palmerston cast iron surround in stock and when is the earliest we can deliver.
This is not a stock item for us as they weigh a ton and are quite fragile being a full cast iron surround so we order them in when ordered from our website.
As our suppliers close at 5pm i can not find out until the morning if we can get one in time for next Fridays Devon, Gloucs and South West run,after enquiring with him whether he was in a rush he told me he had ordered one form another company at the Start of December and they still had not delivered it.
I told him it would have come from China quicker than that and he laughed and i now we have had some of them in the last few weeks and are not aware as to if they are short in supply or out of stock.
If i were the said D***** Fireplace company i would be ashamed of myself not being able to turn around an item within nearly 12 weeks its disgusting service and the type of cowboy antics that give online retailers a bad name.
So hopefully i will be able to get hold of the item and deliver next week he certainly seemed happy that we are going to ring him in the morning and let him know either way he obviously has had no customer service from them either.
Well thats what makes us different here at Cast Fireplaces we care about the service we offer and customers are valued when shopping with us so why would you shop anywhere that does not offer this.
Tags: Cast Iron, Palmerston, Surround
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Today we have taken even more Fireplaces into stock and is sees the return of the Derby Fireplace back in to stock. Luckily this combiantion fireplace was on order as we have sold two in the last week and were just waiting on them coming into stock.
Ido like this fireplace hence why we keep it in stock as it is a gallery fireplace but they withdrew it from there range a few years ago but we decided to continue to sell it as it has sold very well and there was nothing in the Gallery range to comapare it too.
We also still kepp in stock the paris and the daisy combination fireplaces even though they have dropped from the 2010 brochure and again they are nice designs that sell well so im not sure why they have dissapeared from the range with out an alternative taking its place.
Im not moaning though it just means very few firms will be able to offer these fireplaces and so we will have more orders for them which is always a good thing for us.
Funnily enough writing this post a customer of ours who had a pembroke last week has just rung asking if they can collect a Daisy Highlighted Fireplace next week that is really strange right im off to but a bet on Forest beating Derby on Saturday see if that comes in as well
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Well back to work properly today and have been to the factory and met a few customers for collection and been in office all day planning routes for delivery and generally sorting things out and i can now say we are back up to Full Speed.
Over Christmas and New Year we did write a few articles but not much in the day to day things we write about as we were closed so there was not much to tell you.
Anyway in all the festive fun i forgot to do the Featured items which we normally do at the start of the month
This months featured cast iron fireplace is The Daisy Combination Fireplace this small bedroom fireplace had been discontinued by Gallery from the fireplace brochure but is still available to us directly on container so we will carry on selling this Bedroom size cast in both the Black and Highlighted Finish.
I has a shelf width of 30″ and is perfect for any small bedroom chimney breast i personally think gallery have dropped a clanger removing this from the range but im sure it will benefit us as many fireplace shops will not be able to supply it.
Also it will be held in price and will not be affected by any current price increase.We also offer it as one of our packages for gas, solid fuel,LPG and electric use so if you do want a working bedroom fireplace thats is great value look no further than the Daisy Fireplace
Tags: Black, Cast Iron, Combintaion, Daisy, Electric, Gas, Highlighted, solid fuel
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Happy Boxing day we are not at work today so please dont think im a saddo posting an article about fireplaces i am actually at my sisters with all my family having christmas boozy fun.
Anway heres todays article.
The celtic cast iron fireplace has been a firm favorite in the selling stakes for quite a few years and understandably so as it is a great looking fireplace and with prices starting at £250 for the cast iron on its own what better or cheaper way is there to make a feature out of your chimney breast.
The celtic comes in three finishes
Black A matt black finish we can be treated with black lead grate polish for amore traditional look
Highlighted This finish is where all the raised edges have been polished to give a highlighted appearance to all the decorative features
Full Polished Our most popular choice the polishing on all gallery fireplaces is secondary to none in the trade and this offers amodern look to a traditiopanl fireplace.
As with all the fireplaces we sell the Celtic Cast Iron Fireplace Package is available as a package complete with choice of hearth for our normal option of solid fuel (Real Fire) Gas and Electric use and on our new website it alos comes with the option of an LPG gas insert for our customers running on bottled gas.
Anyway have alook at the photo of the full polished version below and click on it to see the item
Tags: Black, Cast Iron, Celtic, Combination, Full Polished, Gallery, Highlighted
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Welcome to one of the brand new items from the Gallery collection purple brochure from 2009 -2010 this brochure has only been out a few weeks now and features quite a few new fireplaces.
The first one we have decided to feature may look very familiar to you as it is based on the very popular Barcelona Fireplace.
It has been slighty widened and this particular fascia has a shelf width of 38″
It is available in Black or Full polished and the real change comes when you look at the fire opening it has been designed to accept a standard gas, electric or Convector fire with an opening of 16″ wide and 22″ high which makes it useable with nearly every standard fire on the market which can open up a huge amount of options available to you with this fascia fireplace.
In the new brochures it is shown in a Full polished finish with the Glass fronted High Effiency Convector fire and in the Black version is shown with the same H/E fire with the Lunar Highlighted fire frame.
These frames are a new idea so the effeicient fire can now have 6 different looks to it and available in a colour and design to suit most decor.
So have a look at the photos below and see what you think of one of the new offerings from the gallery fireplace range.
Tags: Barcelona, Black, Fascia, fire frame, Full Polished, High efficiency gas fire
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Now Today i have tried to set aside the day to adjust the prices on our website so that the price increase we are having from Gallery Fireplaces is ready to go when the new updated pages go live.
Now with over 600 products online and we do have around another 100 to add it is proving very time consuming indeed to do this.
Although the system we are using is easier to alter than our current one (hence why prices are staying the same) it is still going to take an age to do i think today i have done about 50 in between answering the phone taking orders and arranging delivery runs for this week to what seems the whole of the UK.
With this in mind and it being the busiest time of year for us it is going to be one hell of a push if we are going to have site ready to go live in the first week of December, and to be honest im not going to rush it just for the sake of it so it will arrive before Christmas i hope.
Nothing seems to very easy in the world of time mangement and i do think sometimes i wish i had kept my mouth shut and just announced it when it was live but im very exciteable and like to tell people whats happening here and some of our customers do ask me things and i know they have been reading our blog even our suppliers read it. I suppose it is just a way of making our website more user friendly and interactive than others that and with a wealth of information available regarding Fireplaces and Stoves im sure people will find something interesting for them.
On another note i can not believe we are in the Last Week of November and we are already taking orders to ensure pre christams deliverys of some items which we are running short of will explain more tomorrow
Tags: Fireplace, Price rise, Update., Website
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
So it perils me being a forest supporter to have a fireplace named after a team i dislike but it was not me who named it and within our group inc our suppliers it is known as the Dirty for these reasons only.
Joking apart it happens to be a great cast iron combination fireplace and has a fireplace award from back in the day to its name.
It was dicontinued from the gallery range a few years ago but it is still made and we do keep it in stock because it is a very nice fireplace and also because it sells quite well.
So really it is exclusive to us no other website i know of sells it and we will continue to sell this fireplace.
On the new website categories it will be featuring as a package for both gas and solid fuel so it will give our customers a chance to buy this cast iron with a greater choice of options again all at our fantastic prices.
Anway about the Derby it is available in Black Grate polished finish only which really brings out the decorative features in the casting it does have a good sized back on suitable for solid fuel use and takes quite a large gas insert too.
Have alook at the photograph to view this fireplace in all its splendour and i am sure you will agree it does look good even if it does have a dodgy name
Black Derby Fireplace
Tags: Cast Iron, Combination, Derby, Gas, solid fuel
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