I sweep many, many of the old Parkray multi-fuel room heaters across the area, particularly in the old Braintree District council houses that I sweep for Eastlight Community Homes. We have been working our contract with Eastlight Community Homes for over 5 years now and it involves over 200 sweeps annually, many of which are Parkray Multi-Fuel Room Heaters. However, I have not come across one of these, a double-door Parkray. I therefore thought that as it was so unusual, it would make an interesting blog. The vast majority of the Parkrays I sweep have the classic single door look, although if you look back through my blogs, you will see a couple of examples of Bronze coloured Art Deco examples.

Parkray have been the leading name in solid fuel stoves for more than a century, producing heating components since 1850. Originally known as ‘Park Foundry’, the company quickly became the leading name in solid fuel appliances. Today, Parkray is based near Exeter in Devon. Parkray room heaters have been in existence for over 40 years, some of the older applainces (some 20, 30, 40 years old or in some cases even older) are still in existence and used daily by households all over the UK.  This is a testament to the build quality of some of these earlier Parkray models. As there are so many models and sizes of the Parkray, they can look very similar, however, the parts inside of them are different.  Some parts fit many appliances and others are more specific.