We have just returned from our annual chimney sweeping visit to south Wales. This involves sweeping the chimneys of Claire’s dad’s friends in the Wenvoe farming community and a couple of addresses in Mumbles Swansea, for free! Claire’s dad, David Phillips lives and farms

I swept this monster just the other day in Bardfield Saling, the stove is so big, the door opens from the top and drops down towards you, it’s the largest version of the studio that I have swept before. I do see lots of Stovax

Here we are again sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford and we are quite some way from home, sweeping the Rectory at Lawford near Manningtree. Being a Sunday Claire decided to stay in bed for a lie-in and I took my eldest daughter Emma

 
I must admit that I don’t sweep that many Portway stoves, but when I have done it is the popular Portway One model. However, the other day I came across this slightly larger example of a Portway Luxima Multi-Fuel Stove at an address in

Now this is a rather majestic piece of thatched statuary, this soring golden eagle. This is another fine example of the master thatcher’s craft by Clive Dodson, Master Thatcher of Cambridgeshire. I think it is amazing that with just a bit of straw he

There are not many of these old style Jotul 602N Wood-Burning Stove these days although Jotul still manufacture them as an eco stove, the F602. I do see a few of these about with their characteristic crosshatched glass front, but I have only ever

I recently completed the HETAS Chimney Sweeps 5 Year Refresher & Technical Update Course and have the certificate to prove it! It was a day long course completed at the H Firkins Training Centre in Milton Keynes and there were 8 other sweeps undertaking

Here is something unusual that I just had to include in my blog, this is a Wamslea 900 Solid Fuel Range that I swept recently in a house in Stocking Green. Unfortunately, it had a rather tricky factory made chimney arrangement with an

I just had to include this photograph of two little helpers giving me all their assistance at an address in Belchamp Otten, I thought it was so amusing, and I hope you do too! This is Teddy and Ellie (their full names being

I saw this sad but rather interesting story on the Guild of Master Sweeps website this week and thought I would share it. On 11th February 1875, George Brewster was forced by his master to climb and clean a chimney at what was then the County