Tulikivi fireplaces are delivered to your home completely ready for use: all you need to do is light the match. Installation is carried out by Bachmann Natural Stone Fireplaces of Madison, Wisconsin, an authorized Tulikivi installer who has the accuracy and precision of a watchmaker.
The magic of a heat-retaining Tulikivi fireplace is based on the excellent thermal conductivity and the heat retaining properties of soapstone. Together with its high specific gravity, these properties ensure exceptional heating efficiency, and that heat will be radiated for a long period of time.
Having a Tulikivi natural stone fireplace in your home is like living with a perfect family member: clean, efficient, elegant, and, most important of all, comfortable and easy to be around.
The soft radiant heat of a Tulikivi soapstone fireplace spreads evenly in the whole room and gently caresses people and objects in it with its warmth. The room temperature does not need to be high, so that the air remains fresh and easy to breathe. The temperatures in the picture are for guidance only.
With remarkably small amounts of wood-burning, your Tulikivi fireplace will deliver heat 24 hours a day. One sustained "burn" (1 1/2 hours) will "charge" the mass of the soapstone and provide heat all night or all day without a fire burning. The greatest majority of heat is delivered long after the fire has gone out.
The relativity low surface temperature will allow comfortable humidity levels to be maintained. Unlike traditional fireplaces (which pulls warm air up the chimney) or steel wood burning stoves, (which are hot enough to "sizzle" the humidity out of your inside air), Tulikivis rely on a tremendous mass of heat rather then high temperatures to deliver warmth.