Ironhaus

There tends to be two extremes with wood burning fireplaces. The expensive, heavy time consuming but beautiful masonry fireplace and the ugly, production black box fireplace. We take the light weight inexpensive, engineering concepts of a production fireplace and detail them with what matters- real function and handmade fireplace enclosures. We’re the fireplaces in the middle. Less expensive than a true masonry (up to half the price), yet light weight and with true quality.

Our fireplaces are much safer in an earthquake then true masonry fireplace are, and because every one of our fireplaces features a beautiful but utilitarian enclosure, smoke, sparks etc are controlled.

Ironhaus woodburning fireplaces are comparable to a masonry fireplace as far as efficiencies are concerned. The real brick on the interior of the Teton, Big Sky & Wilderness radiates the heat into the room, the refractory panel in the pioneer work in a similar manner. Combining these units with glass doors will also provide convection heat to the room.

Ironhaus greatly encourages the use of our ceramic glass especially in larger fireplace applications unlike true glass; ceramic glass withstands continuous exposure to high temperatures without fear of destruction. It is also resistant to failure due to temperature variation. It is the ideal solution for many wood stoves and fireplaces where glass panels are less than 6 inches from the flames.  Continuous temperatures up to 1470° F (700° C) can be withstood because this ceramic has an extremely low thermal coefficient of expansion. It doesn't run or swell at high temperatures the way normal glass does. Tempered glass comes standard with glass doors unless ceramic is selected. Tempered glass is regular glass that has been heat treated to increase strength and thermal shock resistance to prevent injury by changing the break pattern. Tempered glass is used in applications where heat, mechanical strength and safety are a factor. For example, the glass on motor vehicles is tempered to make it strong and less dangerous when it shatters or breaks. Tempered glass is also used in fireplace doors, on masonry and prefabricated fireplaces equipped with a grate to hold the burning wood. Tempered glass can withstand constant temperatures of 470° F. If tempered glass is exposed to higher temperatures, it gradually weakens the structure of the glass thus making it more susceptible to breakage. If a piece of tempered glass is exposed to continuous temperatures of 600° F or more, the glass will shatter into small pieces.

Ironhaus wood burning fireplaces are UL tested to be used with air cooled pipe rather then insulated class A pipe. While, class A pipe is indeed smaller overall, diameter air cooled pipe accomplishes the same task at a substantially lower price point .

All of our wood burning units are also rated for gas. If you are considering converting to gas at some point in the future then it is wise to pipe for the gas at the same time of the fireplace installation. Talk to your sales person about which gas log set would work best with your fireplace.