It looks like pigs might actually fly! I couldn’t resist taking a photograph of this customers thatched flying pig on her roof in Ugley. No one is really sure of the story behind this thatched animal, but its safe to say that it is rather

This little girl is called Tarka and as you can see, she is a three-year-old working Cocker Spaniel who has a lovely chocolate brown coat. She is also a cheeky little money, like most of her breed! She had already been in the front cab

 Yes, yes, I know, Stovax are a very popular make of stoves, and you see many of them about whilst sweeping, particularly the Stovax Stockton and the Riva Cassettes. But what you don’t see are examples of the Stovax Midi Riva Plus, I came across

This week’s blog is a bit of extra heritage detail continued from last week’s description of the Vicarage of All Saints at Maldon. In the large sitting room of the building there are a number of surviving examples of medieval wall painting. These sections

This is the second occasion that we have been to sweep at the medieval vicarage of All Saints in Maldon. It is an amazing 15th century timber framed house that still retains a wealth of original features. Originally it was built as a hall house

 Here is something a bit different fore this week’s blog – As you will have seen from previous blogs, we sweep a number of biomass boilers across our sweeping area, ranging from small domestic boilers to large appliances that heat a number of properties or

In the middle of the week we were working in Great Sampford at Post Cottage when we took this photo of the view from the front garden. A fantastic heritage shot of the centre of a quintessential English village. The church of St Michael

We had a real treat this week when we were sweeping in Little Bradley, where the most loveable and affectionate Cocker Spaniel Alfie lives. Alfie likes nothing more than to have big hugs and lots of fussing, and if you stop stroking him he will

I came across this Stovax Riva 2 323-325 Wood-Burning Inset Stove at an address in Wimbish just the other day. This was the first time I had seen one of these Riva 2’s, like most sweeps I see plenty of the Stovax Riva’s as

No, on this occasion I was not sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford when I visited great Canfield church, but for a private customer who lives in a large house nearby. The thing that strikes you immediately when approaching this small Essex church is its