Portfolio - Before and After
Headley - Before
Showing open fire in the 70s tile.
Headley - After
Pewter Travertine tiled hearth, deep beam with corbels, Cleanburn Sonderskoven stove, all the building work in relation to this project was produced by The Tinderbox
Ecchinswell - Before
Brick herringbone hearth with rounded brick chamber to a rounded plastered wall to produce a soft edge to the front face wall. Vermont Castings intrepid 2 multi-fuel stove, Custom light oak beam
Ecchinswell - After
Brick herringbone hearth with rounded brick chamber to a rounded plastered wall to produce a soft edge to the front face wall. Vermont Castings intrepid 2 multi-fuel stove, Custom light oak beam
Rotherwick - Before
Large brick fireplace with smaller open fire section
Rotherwick - After
Plastered chamber and painted with new Riven slate hearth and wooden beam, Chesney’s Salisbury 8 series stove.
Hungerford - Before
Stone effect fireplace with an open fire
Hungerford - After
Chesney’s Devonshire limestone surround with black granite hearth and back panel, 16” inset convector gas fire with chrome trim & fret
Wargrave - Before
Pine surround with green and black slate and gas fire
Wargrave - After
Chesney’s Burlington limestone surround with honed slate hearth, back hearth and slip set Stovax Huntingdon 35 multi-fuel stove with clear door
Winchester - Before
70’s tiled surround to an open fire
Winchester - After
Riven slate hearth & back hearth, multi-board chamber to a plastered beaded edge, natural oak facia panel, Westfire Uniq 23 wood-burning stove
Church St - Before
There’s a larger fireplace behind that Electric fire and quarry tiles and no hearth
Church St - After
Dean Forge W5 in Mushroom. Riven slate hearth and back hearth with a Multi-board off white chamber finish. Barlby aged oak surround in medium finish with riven slate slip set.
Agricola way - Before
Conglomerate Marble hearth and back panel, mdf white surround and Jetmaster open fire
Agricola way - After
Honed Black granite hearth and back hearth, enlarged fireplace chamber rendered ready to decorate, Parkray Aspect 5 SIA Eco-design ready. Solid Oak deep beam natural oak finish.
Battle close - Before
Scratched honed slate hearth, small multi-board opening
Battle close - After
Boxed flush riven slate hearth and back hearth (Riven slate will hide the scratches, a good material for a working fireplace) Enlarged the fireplace opening. Deep Blue tiled chamber. Olivia antique white surround. Customers reinstated multi-fuel stove
Baughurst - Before
New build property left with a blank opening
Baughurst - After
Cadiz surround with matching hearth and back hearth with three-piece chamber in Fine Medistone. Gazco Huntingdon 30 - Matt Black, logs, clear door, conventional flue, Nat Gas
Beenham - Before
Freestanding Openfire Jetmaster with canopy
Beennham - After
Quarry tiled hearth. Stovax freestanding Elise Steel 680 Woodburning with Elise 680 Steel Plinth
Burghclere - Before
Yeoman double door inset at the end of it’s working life.. The wooden shelf above the unit would be considered to close to the unit for combustible materiel
Burghclere - After
Angola Black three piece hearth and shelf. The shelf was templated to match the old wooden shelf and then produced in our workshop. Stovax Riva 66 multi-fuel cassette with 3-sided, wide Profile frame
Cold Ash - Before
Brick open fire
Cold Ash - After
Removed the inner brick hearth to lower this level to the front. Install the Ivory Silk hearth and back hearth. Parkray Aspect 4 SIA Eco-design ready. Focuscast standard fascia in a Character mid oak finish
Donnington - Before
Stone and brick Openfire
Donnington - After
Gazco studio 2 glass fronted, Black glass linings, log effect with Expression frame in graphite
Enborne - Before
Brick open fireplace
Enborne - After
Georgian wooden mantle in white. Victorian tiled fireplace, matt black with tiled hood. plant & urn 5-sided tile set and Plant & urn 2 tiled hood set. Honed Granite boxed lipped hearth in three sections
Overton - Before
Open fire with Portland stone hearth and up and over surround
Overton - After
We removed the up and over surround and cut this up to be installed as a new matching back hearth. Then extended the height of the opening to accommodate the new stove. Chilli Penguin Woody Stove in Penguin black
Early Reading - Before
Pine Mantle with Gas fire set in a cast fireplace
Early Reading - After
Jerusalem Stone hearth and back hearth. Rendered opening with rounded front corners. Stovax Stockton 5 woodburning stove. Clovelly Inglebeam in dark oak finish
Wash Common - Before
Brick Fireplace with Gas Jetmaster inset
Wash Common - After
Render the internal opening and plaster the complete front face brickwork. Sand down the beam and re-stain a lighter colour. Flush Riven slate hearth and back hearth. Parkray Aspect 5 woodburning stove
Woolton Hill - Before
No Fireplace Just a flat wall
Woolton Hill - After
Construct a new fireplace chamber with twin wall flue system outside. Flush Riven slate hearth and back hearth. Deep Blue internal chamber with front trim. Parkray Aspect 7 with log plinth. Natural waxed oak deep beam.
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Huge thanks Robert, Ruth and all your lovely team - the stove and fireplace look wonderful! We rather like the bespoke unpolished granite surround so will hold off painting it for the moment 😊. A great experience from start to finish and can’t wait for the chilly evenings to come now, to test it out. Much appreciated.
Hello Rob, Ruth and Team Many thanks for everything, we love it. I also wanted to say that the people you employ are also fantastic and a real credit to your business. I don’t think we have ever had such courteous and friendly tradesmen. Thanks again and we will let you know when we are ready to do the living room.
Hello Ruth, Rob and team, thank you so much for guiding us through the process of buying a wood burner and advising on look and tiles to use etc. I know we took our time to choose but we like to consider things carefully so we really get what we want and understand the implications of our decisions. You came as a recommendation from our daughter and we would be happy to recommend you to others. Thanks again to you and the team who installed.
Thank you so much for the outstanding work carried out by your team. The fireplace is amazing and we can’t compliment all of the engineers enough. Throughout they were super friendly polite and professional. On completion the room was spotless and a full explanation of stove operation given. We would have no hesitation in recommending you to anyone. 11 out of ten!
I am very pleased with the new gas fire, thank you. I was also very impressed with your team of guys who did a really good and tidy job.
We absolutely looooooove our burner!!! The guys were brilliant, so tidy and polite and did a fab job!! And both you and rob have been so helpful!!
Thank you Tinderbox, great job really happy with the work and service. No hesitations on recommending you to friends and family.
We are delighted with the fire thank you very much.
Both Sarah and I would like to thank you for the installation of the wood burner and how you've handled things with us. We're delighted with the stove and beam, we feel it makes the house more of a home.
Thank you so much for all your help with our lovely stove, your knowledge and experience was invaluable when we were making our choices of stove and surround. We have found the whole process a lot easier than we were expecting and your installation staff were great. They tried their hardest to avoid any unnecessary making good and made sure all of our furniture etc. was well covered during the works. We are looking forward to having the fire lit and not worrying about flying embers, which was an issue with our open fire!
We came to the Tinderbox thinking we'd like one type of fireplace, but having seen the full range and had a good discussion with Ruth and Robert, we decided on another model. Installation was done swiftly and competently by their fitters and we are delighted with the result. We recommend The Tinderbox for its welcome, friendly service and good support.
Thank you for everything you have done for us, especially for the custom trim, which has finished it off perfectly. I will be sure to recommend you to friends and neighbours who may be considering installing a stove.
A search on Google introduced us to The Tinderbox. We now have a beautiful log burner installed to replace our Victorian cast iron fireplace. Tinderbox kindly removed the old fireplace to enable us to gauge the space available and give us time to choose an appropriate log burner. Their staff were always extremely helpful, any query immediately responded to, and all necessary work involved to remove the old fireplace and install the new burner was undertaken to the highest quality. Would recommend Tinderbox without hesitation – and would also recommend the joys of a log burner!
I've just got home and the stove looks lovely. We are both really pleased and look forward to using it this winter. The installation team were brilliant and have done a splendid job
Since your team finished installing the stove, I think that you're safe in the knowledge that we're both very happy with the result and we've had many successful burns in the last few months. Each time we spend evenings in the lounge, We still find ourselves not quite able to believe that our vision of what we wanted for the room could have turned out so well. Thank-you so much to yourselves and the wider team for making our vision a reality.
Look at this gorgeous fireplace. Love it so much, Thank you.
Tinderbox, Thanks to the team for such a fabulous job. We love our new stove and fireplace and can’t wait to snuggle down!
The woodburner has been a huge success - a big thank you to all at Tinderbox for getting in sorted in time for Christmas - it is great - my husband is g pleased with it
Robert and the team came and fitted our beautiful stove on a wet and windy day before Christmas. They braved the elements to get all that was needed down the chimney. They covered all the furniture, any dust was hoovered away. This is our third stove from Tinderbox, none of the chimneys have been easy - but they have solved all challenges that our house has thrown at them! Our house is cosy and we have 3 beautiful and effective stoves. Robert has gone on to do several more stoves locally. Ruth is a star in the office, especially in relation to our last stove which we were very specific about and was hard to source. I would recommend them without a doubt.
We are thrilled with the stove and the excellent, painless installation. Thank you and your guys.
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