A short time ago I was called to a barn conversion in Finchingfield where the customer was reporting having heard a bird ‘flapping around’ in the stove chimney. The stove turned out to be this rather stylish contemporary Scan 83-1 multi-fuel stove. I dismantled the stove as I would do to sweep any stove, first removing all the supporting fire-bricks to drop the primary vermiculite baffle plate and then removing the secondary baffle which sits just above it. Unfortunately, on top of the secondary baffle was a rather large, dead Jackdaw. By the look of him he has been there a good few weeks. I the customer had called us earlier when they first heard the bird in the chimney then we might have been able to remove him alive. I’m guessing that it was a male bird as he was so large.

All this said, I did like the look of the stove, I only sweep a handful of these Scan stoves, but they always have the appearance of having been well designed and put together. I thought too that it looked very good in an old, sensitively renovated property; the juxtaposition of old and contemporary working well together.

Scan Stoves are a Danish company founded in Odense only in 1978. Henning Krog Iversen founded the company Krog Iversen (later Scan A/S) in small premises in Odense. At the time it was quite ground-breaking to produce wood-burning stoves in steel sheet instead of cast iron, and there were not many demands concerning combustion technique and environmental protection. The first wood-burning stoves were no more than “oil drums” with doors, but at Krog Iversen we took pride in producing high-end designed pieces of warm furniture with advanced combustion technique right from the start.

Scan pride themselves on their modern Scandinavian designs and recognizable ‘clean lines’. The company is now owned by the Norwegian stove company Jotul. Obviously Jotul have kept this brand because of their modern, contemporary designs. Whereas many Jotul designs have a very traditional or retro appearance. Clearly the Scan brand gives Jotul a much broader design appeal to a mass market – Jotul sell stoves all over the world.

All Krog Iversen scan stoves can be bought through licensed dealerships in the UK.

https://www.scan-stoves.co.uk/