Posts Tagged ‘Stourhead’
Friday, April 9th, 2010
It is the turn of the Jubilee and Oak Stourhead to be the featured item on our front page so heres a little bit about this item.
The jubilee arched insert made by gallery fireplaces is now our best selling arched insert taking over the title from the Lytton.
It is simple to see why as its a fantastic design with simple polished detials which gives it a modern feel but still retains its traditional victorian fireplace style.
To compliment it take a look at one of the best if not the best Oak mantel on the market its called the Stourhead.
It is manufactured by Cast Fireplaces and is available in surround widths as standard of 48″ and 54″, we can also offer a made to measure service on this particular surround so if in doubt get in touch.
This fireplace package is available as normal in Solid fuel (real fire),electric and gas use for natural and LPG gas too.
The surround is made from 100% solid american oak and is finished with Liberon finishing oil which gives it its fantastic patina we never wax oak.
so if you wish to be the new owner of one of our best selling oak packages just click on the photo below to take you straight to that item.
Tags: Jubilee, Oak, Stourhead
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
I took a phonecall at ten past nine this morning asking me why we have so many choices of wooden fireplaces and as the range and options are so big it is really making choosing which one we like best really hard.
I apologised for offering too much choice and she laughed saying its a womans right to be indecisive.
It turns out she had been looking for the past two days and had now narrowed it down to three options for which they were going to have
Jubilee and Oak Brompton
Henley and Oak Stourhead
Coronet and Oak Lincoln
After finding out that the shelf width was going to be a 54″ surround we could then rule out the Coronet and oak lincoln as this is best suited to a 48″ mantel i did mention the crown half polish its big brother to be told the polished band was to wide and was not what she wanted
Now the Henley and the Jubilee are two different inserts one decorative one plain and offer i think different looks and styles so to choose between these two is odd.
Anyway after further questions about wall colours and decor and what type of furniture was in the room a firm decison was suddenly made
Ill have the Jubilee and Oak Stourhead i just laughed out loud it wasnt even an option that had been discussed or considered but now when comparing the two together in side by side screen shots without telling me she had clicked on the Jubilee and Oak Stourhead and was now happy with what she was ordering.
I double checked to make sure she was happy with everything and now was so firm in her mind im not sure why we had been chatting for 22 minutes about fireplace options when all along the perfect answer had been sitting there.
So after one of the most challenging sales for quite a while we now have another happy customer looking forward to her delivery next sunday to Fareham and it just goes to show be patient and listen to what the customer wants and needs and make sure you have the options to offer thats why we really have so many choices in our wooden fireplaces section it makes choosing easy
Tags: Brompton, Lincoln, Oak, Stourhead, Timber, Wooden Fireplaces
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Around a week ago or perhaps a little longer i told you about a customer who wanted a piece of Oak from an old Bureau incorparating into our Oak Stourhead Mantel which they are having as part of a solid fuel fireplace package with the Henley arched insert.
I must say what a great choice the solid oak stourhead made by us here at Castfireplaces really sells well and is fast becoming a contender to our Oak Lincoln.
Thinking of mantels i really should start informing you of our best selling items again now the new site is up and running.
Anyway this particualr piece of oak is now making its way to us by courier so we can actually set it into the mantel for our customer it will be easier for us to do then him to fix it when mantel is delivered i will take some photos of it being made and of course the finished article so you can see the work we are capable of.
Really nothing is to much trouble for us here.
Anyway enough fireplace talk we have had a new vehicle arrive today and collected it from Audi this morning and for once its not another new Van (god i wished audi made vans nothing comes close)
So My lovely wife and business partner Rhian has a new car to drive round and what a car it is take a look at the photo below i did get my way with the Forest colours but as you can see she has the reg plate.
Tags: bespoke, Mantel, Oak, Stourhead
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Having supplied a Wooden Fireplace Package to a customer of ours back in December 2007 he contacted me today to discuss an idea he has of incorporating an oak carving he has of birds etc into one of our Oak surrounds.
It turns out he has moved house as the fireplace he had before was pine large corbel and he has been visiting our website for a new fireplace he wants.
Anyway after enquiring what we can do for him he again wants a solid fuel package and likes our Oak Stourhead mantel and has this idea to fit a carving from an old Bureau into the mantel panel.
Anyway after discussion we said it can be routed into the panel by around 12mm as this carving was an old drawer front and is around 34″ wide.
He was going to try fitting it himself but as we make the mantels it would be easier for him to send template of this carving by post so we can cut that into the oak mantel after making freize deeper so it looks in proportion.
It makes sense for us to do it before assembly as it gives us more room to work round it without the mantel shelf getting in the way.
So off he has gone to make the template after adjusting the carving so hopefully we get the order as its something different to manufacture instead of just our normal surrounds, i will keep you informed
There are not many companies who would go to the trouble to do this but we do making sure the customer gets what they want is one of our priorities
Tags: Carving, Made to measure, Mantel, Oak, Stourhead, Surround
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
I am over the moon about this months Wooden Fireplace featured item it’s the second best selling surround after the Lytton and Pine Bedford it was only 1 sale short of drawing and its our very own exclusive Jubilee and Oak Stourhead
This Fireplaces surround is made from 100% solid oak and finished with oil to give it a lovely finish a lot of other companies spray or wax there oak surrounds as its cheaper here at Cast Fireplaces we finish ours with Liberon Finishing oil to create the smooth natural finish we achieve on the Surrounds.
This months sales have been helped to become a very close second due to 2 orders of two identical fireplace sets that were going in two new build houses in Barton Under Needwood. This particular developer has been to our showroom and his wife who decides on all the interiors (as most women do) saw them and immediately told him that is what she wanted.
I do agree they make a great fireplace set and the jubilee highlighted insert seems to work well with them. At our showroom we have it on display with the Henley Highlighted insert that I think looks even better but that’s my choice.
Most sets were sold for gas use and one set for Electric use im sure when you see photo below you will agree it makes a great fireplace set so click the photo to take you straight through to the item and choose one of Septembers best selling Wooden Fireplace Sets
Tags: Electric, Fireplace, Fireplaces, Gas, Highlighted, Jubilee, Oak, Stourhead, Wooden
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Where has today gone its 7.25 pm at night and have just finished running around today from 8 o’clock this morning.
This morning I was at the workshop early to meet a customer who had driven from Aylesbury up to us in Langley Mill to view an Edwardian Fireplace he ordered this item with Elise tiles and a granite hearth for show use.
After I loaded the van and went to Beeston in Nottingham to deliver an Oak Stourhead mantel and two made to measure hearths for a customer of ours who is having it fitted tomorrow around a stove.
After another happy customer after he had taken delivery of these made to measure items we were then on our way to Derby to collect some timber mantels.
Back to the workshop for a welcome cup of tea and a customer arriving to collect a Tiger Plus Stove with flue pipe which was promptly loaded into his van after we had measured the rear flue exit on the stove to confirm it fitted his chimney breast opening (another happy customer)
An hour at the office having a quick bite to eat then a few phone calls to customers to arrange this Sundays London delivery run then back to the workshop to load Second Van as our biggest van is currently working its way back from Plymouth via Taunton Cardiff and Worcester.
Van loaded I have an hour top spare before tired man and van arrive back so I go to the Gym god knows how I’m so big running round like this all day
Back to the Factory just as it drives in quickly load that so he can get home and have some rest. Off to the office again to raise delivery notes and then finally back to the Factory again in the car this time to meet final appointment of the Day at 6pm who has come from Dronfield to buy a Celtic full polished gas package
So the final happy customer of the day leaves and im now at home writing daily blog for our website after this is finished I am done for the day ZZZzzzzz
Tags: Celtic, Edwardian, Fireplace, Fireplaces, Gas, Mantel, Oak Stourhead, Stourhead
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