Yes, as I have said before, doggies just love our dust sheets, whether it is lying on them, sniffing them or playing with them, they just can’t resist our dustsheets. If there is a dog or dogs in the house no sooner have we laid

I am starting to come across a small number of these Jydepejsen Wood-Burning Stove, this example is an Jydepejsen Avanti Wood-Burning Stove. I swept another example of this very same stove on a factory made chimney in Wethersfiels just the other day. It looks

 I recently completed the Guild of Master Chimney Sweeps 5 Year Refresher & Technical Update Course, here is the certificate I received. I just can’t believe that I have now been working in the sweeping industry for over 10 years now! It was a day

Yes, here we are sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford again, and on this occasion, it was the vicarage in the beautiful village of Finchingfield. Indeed, many people describe Finchingfield as the most beautiful or picturesque village in England. Perhaps that is an

 Here is another sad story of a Victorian chimney sweeps apprentice or climbing boy. You might remember that The Guild of Master Sweeps recently played a part in memorialising the death of George Brewster who died trapped in a chimney at Fulbourn County Pauper and

I recently swept the flue to this original Jotul F118 Wood-Burning Stove at an address in Elmdon. The customer told me that they had owned the stove for over 30 years and that it originally came from another property where it had been in

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