Chimineas are open fire heaters that are imported from Mexico to be used in gardens and on decks and patios to bring heat to the garden making an evening with a glass of wine all the more pleasurable.

Chimineas originate from Mexico from as far back as thousands of years. Tribesmen built them from clay as a way to keep their family warm and also as a way to cook and bake food.

The imported Chimineas from Mexico were not designed to cope with the cold winters of the UK or even cool showers of rain and would break. Today most Chimineas sold here are manufactured with our climate in mind often using hardier materials like cast iron and aluminium.

Originally, all clay open fire garden heaters imported from Mexico were known as chimeneas. As the story goes, chimeneas originated hundreds if not thousands of years ago by Mexican tribesmen who developed the chimeneas as a means of heating for their family as well as a vessel for cooking and baking. The original chimenea was designed to keep the rain off the fire and the family warm using merely a couple of sticks.