Furniture · condo · cabin · Calgary
A console or a plinth built around the Optimyst cassette, with its own water tank and softening cartridge inside, delivered and set against a wall or in the middle of the room. Or the Optimyst Mapleton stove: cast-iron looks, a refill tank, a fan heater, and a plug.
A console with the cassette in its top, against a plain wall. A concept render made from Dimplex's product photos of the cassette, not a photograph of a piece we have built.
What goes in
The console and plinth are our furniture around Dimplex's flame-only cassette, with the water and power solved inside. The Mapleton is Dimplex's own answer to the same brief, with heat.
Not yet on file: run time per refill container; product weight. We confirm these from the manual at the site visit.
Not yet on file: run time per fill (6 vs 8 h); clearances; cord length; heat settings detail. We confirm these from the manual at the site visit.
Formats
Sofa-table height, about 30 in, in stock cabinet boxes with a stone top and our tank module inside; the flame at the height you see it from a couch. Against a wall, behind a sofa, under a window. The one most people want.
Suits condos, rentals, living rooms with no fireplace wall.
Low and long, a raised hearth without a fireplace behind it: the flame in a stone-topped bench with a glass guard on the exposed sides. One cassette or several in a row on one tank.
Suits hospitality, lobbies, big rooms.
Where this began: a coffee table with the fire in it. It puts the flame at knee height where hands and glasses go, so it gets a stone top and a guard, and we would rather show you the console first. Quoted on request.
Suits the person who has decided.
Dimplex's freestanding water-vapour stove: cast-iron door, front and top, a hand-finished log set, a refill tank in the drawer, a 1,150 W fan heater for up to 400 sq ft, and a plug. Nothing to build; we deliver, set it half an inch off the wall, fill it and show you the remote.
Suits renters, cabins, anyone who wants heat and a stove look.
How it's built
A section through the console, with the wet bay and the dry bay, and the Mapleton as Dimplex sells it. All cassette clearances and the Mapleton figures are Dimplex's.
The job
No trades in your home. The console arrives finished; we set it, fill it, pair it and leave you a card.
Before you decide
Through the hatch in the top, from a jug, with softened or filtered water. Dimplex's cassette manual does not print an hours figure for its 1.25 L container and we won't invent one; our tank holds several times that, so a fill is occasional rather than nightly at a normal setting. It tells you when it is low and stops the mist rather than run dry.
Lift the media plate, wipe the tray and the transducer disc with soap and water. A few minutes. Softened water keeps it light.
The cassette is flame only, about 230 W. If you want warmth with no wall work, the Mapleton is the one; 1,150 W, up to 400 sq ft per Dimplex.
At least 16 in of clear air above the top, 18 is better. A wall TV directly above a console is close to that line and mist can fog a screen; we would rather offset it or raise it, and we say so on the drawing.
Away from a register, a door that stays open, a ceiling fan on high. Where the console stands in the open, the guard goes on.
Dimplex asks that all water be emptied before a unit is moved. The console is furniture and can move; drain it first, and we show you how.
128 lb, 18-1/4 by 38 by 17-1/2 in, half an inch off the wall behind it, a 120 V outlet, filtered water in its drawer tank, a remote and deliberately no app. Dimplex Canada's page says up to 6 hours of flame per fill; its US page says 8; we quote the manual once it is on file.
A fire at knee height needs a guard and a top you don't mind getting damp. It can be built; we would rather you saw a console lit first.
See it in my space
Where the console or the stove would stand, from the couch. You get the picture back with the fire in it, plus a price for the piece. Usually within a couple of days.
Your photo is used only to make your render and is not shared. Prefer email? hello@mistfire.ca
Questions
Yes. Inside it is a water tank with a fill hatch in the top, a small pump, a softening cartridge, a check valve and a drip pan with a leak cut-out, feeding the cassette's own inlet. You fill the tank from a jug now and then. It plugs into a normal 15 A outlet with Dimplex's plug kit.
Dimplex's cassette manual does not print an hours figure for its 1.25-litre refill container, so we won't invent one. The tank we build in holds several times that, so a fill is occasional rather than nightly at a normal flame setting. The unit tells you when it is low and shuts the mist off rather than running dry.
Yes, with the tank drained. It is furniture with a plug. Dimplex asks that all water be emptied before a unit is moved, so draining is part of moving day, and we show you how.
This is the version for exactly that. No wall work, no plumbing, no hardwiring, no venting: a piece of furniture and a plug. The Mapleton stove is the same idea from Dimplex, ready made.
A 120 V outlet, half an inch of space behind it for its air intakes, filtered water for its tank, and a floor that takes 128 lb. It has a fan heater for up to 400 sq ft, a remote (no app, on purpose), and a flue collar accessory if you want the stove look complete. Dimplex Canada's page says a tank gives up to 6 hours of flame; its US page says 8; we quote the manual once it is on file.
That is where this started, and it can be quoted. A table puts the flame at knee height where hands and glasses go, so it gets a glass guard on the exposed sides and a stone top, and we would rather show you a console first. Ask.
The console and plinth do not; the cassette is flame only, about 230 watts. The Mapleton stove does: a 1,150 W fan heater for up to 400 sq ft according to Dimplex, on demand.