Veneered craftsmanship is a speciality skill, born of a respect and passion for beautiful, rare woods. The surface finishes of Eskimo’s Outline WOODY radiators are a result of this beautiful design craft and offers you multiple finishes created by one of our ‘Eskimo experts’ teams.
In the search for the best, we found Hillside who are outstanding at what they do. Their work, by its very nature, to fascia, adorn and beautify, can be found gracing many notable public and prominent places. Houses Of Parliament for one. As well as behind closed doors, in the Scandi through to traditionally styled households and work places across the UK and beyond. That includes my kitchen, so they really do meet the appetite of any customer. Customers that adore the monolithic or brutalist aesthetic. Achieved, cost effectively and by materially efficient methods such as veneering. Eskimo love Hillside because they just ‘get’ what it is that we envisage for our Outline radiators; WOODY, CLIFF, BAMBOO and CONCRETE. To induce joyous emotions within our customers’ space through texture, colour and the warmth of an authentic surface finish. Hillside’s careful eye and attention to detail certainly induce joy for Eskimo. The thorough time-served knowledge of their craft, determines their value, one we never take for granted. Hillside exceed our expectations of product and service. Aided by modern machinery and techniques, their craftsmen are able to offer an outstanding range of veneering services that is regularly acquisitioned by the most demanding designers and architects. These cabinetry skills are set in Bolton too, another true Best Of British Company that we are very proud to work with in the North of the Country.
Ken Armstrong heads up a superb team, who just absolutely love what they do. Just another reason that Hillside caught Eskimo’s eye. Along with their precision and qualified understanding of how to work with wood and stone. But let’s concentrate on wood for now. Sought cuts of wood with beautiful grain. For example the crotch of mahogany or walnut trees produces a curl or flame pattern; inside knobbly growths found on Walnut, Oak or Elm can be found the wildest, the most colourful grain, and the most valued cut called Burr. These solid cuts tend to be so unstable they can warp and split until destruction. Beauty is also in the grain of a wide plank, these will also warp/distort over time. So when Hillside slice these beautiful and expensive woods thinly; it reduces their natural stresses and allows a quality construction without the inevitable hazards of its entirely solid form.
The beauty of veneer and the way it is cut, allows us a dazzling array of effects far beyond the limited scope of solid wood or stone alone. Examples are book-matching which produces mirror-imaged patterns and sometimes the most amazing faces; to slip-matching which will cause shimmer or flicker in regular patterns. Add to this aspects of Marquetry/ Parquetry and a good design flair; its hardly surprising that wood veneering alone has endured many fashions through many periods, and is now at its height of popularity.
Wooden radiators? That wouldn’t work though would it? According to our tests, yes it would. Technical tests on Eskimo’s thermal cycling rig included cooling down to ambient temperature and heating up to 80 degrees Celsius whilst being automatically sprayed at 5 minute intervals with water. It remained completely unaffected by high temperature fluctuations and damp and humid environments. There was no damage to the surface finish found, the Woody remained as beautiful as before its test. In short Woody is the perfect bathroom radiator as well as other areas of your scheme. One of reasons for using wood is that you get a very nice and even gentle spread of temperature with no hot spots, even when the radiator ‘engine’ itself is delivering high heat output.
True, wood is a great insulator (it has low thermal conductivity), but Eskimo have worked out how to combine the unique aesthetic properties of wood with the thermal performance of aluminium, based on the tried and tested technology we’ve been continuously perfecting for 10 years with our Outline range of radiators.
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