Gas safety

Next Monday marks the start of Gas Safety week, and a campaign aimed at educating people about how to ensure that their gas appliances are safe.  Here at Westcombes, we sell a range of gas fires and stoves and only recommend using properly qualified and registered fitters and installing a carbon monoxide alarm to ensure that your appliance is working properly.  We're proud to be the only fire and stove retailer in South East London approved by HETAS - the body which approves heating appliances, fuels and services.

When a fire or stove isn't properly fitted or doesn't work properly, it can leak carbon monoxide, posing a serious health hazard.  Carbon monoxide doesn't smell and can't be seen, so you may be completely unaware of the risk if you don't have an alarm.  Carbon monoxide causes headaches and dizziness, nausea and breathlessness and it can be fatal.

It's really important to use gas safely in your home and if you want more information, you can visit the Gas Safety Week website.

Best of British

What with it being the Jubilee this weekend, we thought it was an ideal time to celebrate some of our fabulous British-made fires and stoves.

We have more than sixty different models of stove in our stove showroom, and we featuire some wonderful designs manufactured in the UK. We stock the highly efficient Burley stoves, the popular ESSE range and Town and Country stoves made in Pickering in Yorkshire.

Our hand-built made-to-measure fires and surrounds are made in Britain by local craftsmen in wood, stone and marble. We stock British-made gas fires, and most of our antique fireplaces were made here in Victorian or Georgian times and were certainly built to last!

So, if you're thinking of a British-made fire or stove, come along to Westcombes and see what we have on offer.