Earth Friendly Living

Designed for Nature

Ages ago fireplaces were created to help man defeat the environment. Today, Tulikivi designs fireplaces to help save it. Owning a fireplace allows you to be self-sufficient when it comes to generating energy. Heating your home with a wood burning fireplace also enables you to achieve a passive house.

PHOTO / Tulikivi Boulder Model. Custom designed for each customer.

Calculated Footprint

Tulikivi has led the way in efficient and earth friendly living and is the first company within its sector to calculate the carbon footprint of its fireplaces: the impact of manufacturing a Tulikivi fireplaces is offset in as little as 1-2 years. Tulikivis burn clean and exceed even the toughest of emissions standards.

PHOTO / Tulikivi TLU2000.

Trees are Carbon Neutral

Ecologists generally agree that wood is carbon neutral. While burning wood releases a significant amount of carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas also released by fossil fuels—the gas is reabsorbed by growing trees and turned into carbon, which accounts for half the weight of wood. Whether a tree burns in your Tulikivi or naturally decomposes in the forest, it will release the same amount of carbon into the environment in the form of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases. Hypothetically, this cycle can be repeated indefinitely. Fossil fuel can make no such claim. In the U.S., the EPA has concluded that if more fossil fuels were supplemented by biomass fuels, control of the “greenhouse effect” could then be achieved.

The CO2 Loop

The Natural CO2 Loop - trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In the decomposition process in the forest or in combustion in Tulikivi ovens it is returned to the air. The loop begins again.

This diagram shows the amount of carbon monoxide given off by a traditional fireplace and the new Tulikivi whirl chamber fireplace. The world's strictest norms for emissions—those of Austria—have been used as a baseline in both diagrams.

Carbon Monoxide Emissions (CO)

This diagram shows the amount of particle emissions given off by a traditional fireplace and the new Tulikivi whirl chamber fireplace.

Particle Emissions

Fine Particle Award

The Fine Particle Forum—formed as part of the FINE technology program at TEKES (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation)—presented the 2006 Fine Particle Achievement of the Year award to Tulikivi.

One of the reasons given for choosing Tulikivi was the considerable effort the company has devoted to its new collection's cleaner combustion technology, which helps reduce emissions from small-scale burning of wood.

Longer Combustion

The Whirlbox is a new invention patented by Tulikivi. It lengthens the time combustion gases remain in the fire chamber allowing combustion to be not only efficient, but also exceptionally clean. Emissions from the fireplace remain at a fraction of the worlds strictest norms.

Thermal Mass

Wood is burned completely and the heat is stored in the soapstone mass. Tulikivi fireplaces maximize the heat output of wood and are easy to use. A short 1- to 3-hour burn cycle per day will contribute a significant amount of heat to your home.

Skilled Hands

Modern production technology, skilled

stoneworkers who take pride in their work, and dozens of years of experience, produce a one-of-a-kind fireplace for your home. All Tulikivi fireplaces come with a five-year warranty.

Healthy Heat

Like the energy from the sun, Tulikivi soapstone fireplaces and ovens produce gentle radiant heat. It is the healthiest form of heat and does not parch the air like metal stoves and hot air systems.

Heat all Day

The thermal storage capabilities of our units allow you to continue heating while you are asleep or away, without a fire burning.

Low Surface Temperatures

Soapstone is a dense, heat-resistant and solid material. Soapstone also has better heat retaining and thermal conductivity properties than other stones. Relatively low surface temperatures make Tulikivi fireplaces safe and enjoyable to touch.

Authorized Installation

Tulikivi fireplaces are delivered to your home and installation is carried out by an authorized Tulikivi installer ready for use: all you need to do is light the match.

Tested in the USA

Tulikivi fireplaces have ash boxes with lids, making ash removal convenient and clean – ash won’t blow everywhere. Tulikivi ovens and fireplaces are the only masonry stoves in North America tested and listed to UL / ULC standards.

Tulikivi Certifications

Underwriting Laboritories

Europeqan Standards

OMNI-Test Laboratories

Independant Research

Institiut fur Baubiologie

Science Partners

Lloyd’s Register

Rhein-Ruhr Feuerstätten