You’ve invested in a beautiful fire pit. You’ve fallen in love with the way it’s so easy to light, the way it burns so well, gives off so much heat, and makes such a cool focal point for your garden. But after a few uses it’s starting to look mucky. While there’s nothing wrong with […]
Here’s another of our ‘essential basics’ articles about chims, this time about indoor chimineas. Can I use a chiminea indoors? It’s a question we’re often asked, and it’s a sensible one. With the cost of living crisis to deal with, including sky-high heating prices, plenty of people are desperate to find alternatives to gas fired […]
First, buy a pizza oven. Then, find a place to stand it. Do you want to know how to make your own pizza oven stand? It could be a good move when the stands available in the shops are either good quality but super-expensive, cheap and flimsy, really ugly, or won’t fit where you want […]
Did you know you can paint a clay chimenea to keep it looking smart? And did you know that, while specialist paint is available, ordinary house paint also does the job? Let’s take a look at how to give your old clay chiminea a bright new finish. Thanks to Pinterest for the image. Why paint […]
Decking is marvellous stuff, giving you a flat, safe surface to sit, lounge, eat, drink, and socialise. So can you use a chiminea on a wooden deck? Yes, you can place a metal or clay chiminea on decking but, as you can imagine, there are some fire safety issues to bear in mind. Here’s how […]
The traditional Mexican clay chimenea look is always popular. It goes with every style of outdoor space and the design, with its extra wide mouth, is designed to burn bright, clean and hot. But what if you’d prefer something more modern-looking? Here are four modern chiminea designs to inspire you. The large Botella Mexican chiminea […]
Deliveries are just deliveries, right? Someone turns up in a lorry or van, lugs your parcels or boxes to you front door, takes a photo or signature, and that’s that. Gardeco delivery is different. They decided their chimineas and other garden leisure products, and the people who buy them, deserved better. So they set up […]
Here’s another post from our friends down in Devon. This one looks at how to move a clay chiminea. A few weeks ago we took delivery of a beautiful new Mexican clay chimenea. The first spot we chose for it, at the front of the house on a secluded patio enclosed by two house walls […]
We sell two types of chiminea cover, one designed to keep clay and metal chimeneas dry and looking good, the other to protect clay chimineas from frost damage. Why bother? Here’s a load of sensible reasons why a chiminea cover is a jolly good idea, whether you’re going for clay or metal. Why you need […]
If your clay chiminea is cracked, not completely broken into bits, there’s a reasonably easy way to repair it. This post explores how to mend a clay chiminea when it has cracked through heat stress, in the frost, or through being hit or dropped. Can I mend a totally broken clay chimenea? Despite being designed […]
