Our Mission

A FlueCube chimney cowl is designed to not only improve the air of our communities, whatever the landscape they’re in, but to also protect self sufficient, environment sustainable home heating.

If promoted earlier The $345.00 NZD cowl could have reduced some of the devastating effects of the wood burner certification and changeout program in New Zealand, Australia or wherever else the EPA’s International policies have influenced domestic energy policy.

If it was available and promoted in the mid 1970s, the modelled legislation that was instituted in Oregon, USA might never have happened, with manufacturers and retailers losing business, and homeowners paying thousands for new heating technology tested to only work in artificial conditions. With the overall effectiveness of the FlueCube we have realised serious flaws in the wood heating testing/ legislation.

The exhaust system and atmosphere above it has been ignored as having a major influence on smoky fires. An unbalanced field of scientific research has caused a falsely represented technology that calls itself clean due to perfect flue conditions being manufactured above the appliance, inside a laboratory. In the field, in typical winter conditions these ratings are not relevant and the newer technology can fail to prove any benefit to the consumer.

Town councils enforcing change-outs preach healthier air and reduced PM10/ 2.5 emissions due to the now growing number of new trigger happy heat pump owners who increase the electricity demand. Oil tankers and trucks filled with gas bottles drive around our suburbs. Electricity, gas and oil prices are on a steady and high increase along with the demand. Many who changed their wood heaters are now getting smoke in their rooms as well as it still belching out their chimneys. People read a statistic based on a computer model and gape without considering the possible bias that funded it to publication.

The dillution tunnel apparatus used in Australia and New Zealand standards is used to certify wood burners yet the data collected is only taken from the appliance separated from flue system and without the winter atmosphere. Cold inversion layers that trap smoke into our breathable air are a significant cause in producing the smoke in the first place. Whatever processes that may improve combustion in the appliance are only hindered when cold air clogs up the exhaust system.

Although falsely represented the standardised technology isn’t entirely bad. That’s not what we are saying. Inefficient, smoky open fires have been outlawed and having the ability to cook our food and heat our water centrally at no additional cost to our gas, oil or electric bills is fantastic. Some older enclosed burners may have also been inefficient. We believe with the FlueCube installed and if they were judged in the field they would have been given a fairer review.

Our website at www.fluecube.com is designed to not only promote the revolutionary FlueCube itself but to also provide access to information useful to wood heater owners or those considering a cheaper alternative to more expensive forms of heating.

Each FlueCube agency is responsible to find local or national manufacturers with each providing fair access to retailers, chimney cleaners, lists and ratings of certified wood burners, and firewood merchants.  We support local industry and ethical practices in those industries as they focus on improving the quality of our lives. We believe in supporting the local economy and a cleaner environment.

We do not however support woodsmoke activism that reacts to alarmist-commercial or vested interest corporate propaganda. They often suggest natural gas or other influential – commercial alternatives. Well funded publicised fear campaigns are not new and the lesser influential wood heating industry cannot compete with them. Public opinion is forever being manipulated. What were once trustworthy sources of accurate information do well in twisting scientific research to commercial and investment advantage. We are nevertheless sympathetic to those suffering allergies, caused irritation or more serious illnesses by irresponsible neighbouring wood heater owners, who produce high concentrations of toxic smoke emissions. Regulations are required to stop these pests and improve our communities’ health.

By owning international patents spreading over 40 countries we would like to see this cheap wood heating fix evolve to industrial chimneys too. Not only does our customer feedback comment on the huge improvements on their wood heating efficiency and output but it is also showing a positive result on coal burning heaters as well.

We are excited about Neville D’Herville’s invention and are grateful to the continuing support and interest we are receiving world-wide. We are only small and are aware at the amount of money that is going into pollution chemical research and recording. We are aware that there are accepted approaches in reducing pollution and our invention is still very new on the scene. To express its effectiveness in the form of data we require the right equipment available in international standards. If the same dilution tunnel testing could be achieved in a typical upright flue and without the help of extraction fans to exhaust the gases, and with the top of the flue inside the atmosphere for which it is intended, then truer clean air ratings on wood burners can be achieved.

Until then we are making it available because it works and the public are benefiting from it. No law dictates which cowl to use as there are too many atmospheric variants. That in itself suggests that the atmosphere above wood burners is significant to their emissions and efficiency. It is also obvious that by zoning airsheds, allowing wood burners in some and not others also suggests atmospheric relevance to the clean air cause.

Your help buying and installing a FlueCube on your chimney –  designed to improve your lives during the winter cold will help us continue and improve the lives of many. So thank you.

Jeremy D’Herville
Marketing Director
FlueCube International Ltd