Only the other day I was reading a very interesting book, ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Harari. Subtitled ‘A brief history of humankind’, it details all you need to know about the history of people and human activity – Fascinating stuff! It was while I was

 Up until relatively recently I had not come across any examples of these Rais stoves, but I am now beginning to see more and more of them. This attractive contemporary cylindrical model is the Rais Viva L100 Wood-Burning Stove. They are as you can see

Here’s another animal you don’t often see in Britain, but I suppose it comes as no surprise to find them on rooves in the UK as many Australians call this country home. This pair seem to be having a right set too about something.

 
I do sweep a lot of these Town and Country stoves, this example which I recently swept in Bassingbourne is the Town & Country Pickering Wood-Burning Stove. The most common models that I come across being the Little Thurlow, the Bransdale and the Thornton

Probably about half of the large contract we do for Eastlight Housing is sweeping Parkray Room Heaters. You would be surprised just how many of them are still around and functioning efficiently; I rather think that they are indestructible. Here I am rotary power

I recently completed the HETAS Servicing and Maintenance 5 Year Refresher Course and as previously 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 7 other chimney sweeps

I saw this on a factory-made chimney in Latchi, Cyprus during our recent holiday. My initial thought was that someone was doing a type 1 smoke test, although there was no sweeps van outside the address. However, when the plastic bag was there to

Our next stop on our recent road trip was in the historic town of Ross-On-Wye, a place neither Claire nor I had been before. The town was full of old historic buildings, so we spent a pleasant morning doing the online town trail. It

On the way down to Ross-On-Wye from Ludlow on our recent road trip, we decided to make a stop at the little Norman church of Kilpeck near Hereford. The church at Kilpeck is famous for its rich Norman decoration and unusual carvings, which look

Here is an awesome set of chimneys from our visit to Ludlow. We stayed in a lovely pub called the ‘Charlton Arms’. On one side of the pub is the River Teme and the medieval bridge and on the other was this house with