Testing

John is coming home today after spending time at Intertek (a testing facility similar to UL) where they ran some high intensity tests on the Draw Collar.

They hooked the collar up to a fuel generator and fired it up. They heated that bad boy up to nearly 2100 degrees. The pipes were glowing red. (the draw collar is the black thing on the top of the flue pipe)



After it cooled, they went and plugged it in, and the thing still worked! Success!

They also tested the clearances. Single wall pipe has to be 18 inches from walls, and double wall must be 6(?) inches. So we needed to know if the Draw Collar would affect those standards. Success again! It is good to go.

We were very relieved that this testing is done, and that we can move forward with confidence knowing the product is safe.

And our website is now up and running (there's still a few minor details we're going to tweak, but feel free to check it out! I linked it on the sidebar.) A huge thank you to Matt B. for all your help in hooking us up!

It's Starting!

We're starting to get actual orders placed for Draw Collars!

Mostly small-ish orders, but a few bigger ones are starting to come in as well. We are thrilled.

As distributors & retailers get them and actually test them out and see how effective they are, word will spread quickly.

Our official website should be up and running within a week or so. We're very excited. It will look amazing.

Our instruction/warnings manual should be getting finished right away, and all of the other myriad of details associated with starting a business are getting resolved, so hopefully we can manage to do this without too much drama.

This is such an exciting time for us. We can't wait to see what the future holds for this company!