Here is a salutary tale from Thaxted this week about the need to have a chimney regularly swept – A barn conversion caught fire and lost most of its roof when soot deposits in the chimney caught fire and spread to the loft space. The

This week we were again sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford and we were quite some way from home, sweeping the Vicarage at Elm Road Leytonstone and All Saints Rectory at Purleigh near Maldon. All Saints Church at Purleigh is a beautiful medieval church

I had to include this stove in my weekly blog, not because it is anything unusual to look at, but because I had not come across one of these before. This is despite seeping many, many Charnwood Stoves. This is the Charnwood Cranmore 3

I thought for this week’s blog I would write another one about us working. On this occasion I have chosen one of our regular biannual jobs at a thatched cottage in Radwinter. Here we are sweeping a Stovax Stockton boiler stove. By their very nature

I just had to include this job in my weekly blog after sweeping this Aga Little Wenlock multi-fuel stove at an address in Nosterfield End recently. This is actually an address that I have been sweeping annually for a number of years now

Here we are again sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford and we are quite some way from home, sweeping the Rectory at Rawreth. The rectory itself is a modern 1960’s house with a lined chimney. It was nice and easy to sweep with brush

I sweep a significant number of Parkray Multi-Fuel room heaters, particularly when we are working for Eastlight Community Homes around the Braintree area. In those instances, the Parkrays all look like the traditional model versions of this classic design. The only thing that differentiates

Here is a very functional and business like looking stove and not a model of Capital stoves that I have come across before, although I do sweep quite a few of the other Capital models, the Capital Qube in particular. I tend to

Here is a real oddity, I recently came across this stove in Radwinter and really didn’t know what to make of it, I’ve never seen one quite like it before. I don’t know if any of the readers of this blog have seen a stove

I recently came across this Antique Gardeco Amblecote Wood-Burning Stove at an address in Great Thurlow. To be honest I was a little perplexed as I could not decide whether this stove is truly an antique stove or whether it is a copy