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

Over the past week we have done a bit of a road trip, visiting relatives and seeing the sights. In sequence we went to Crosby in Liverpool, Cheadle Hume in Manchester, Chester, Ludlow, Ross-on-Wye and Church Enstone in the Cotswold’s. As well as sightseeing

I think that I only sweep three of these old Heta stoves across the area, so they are rather rare, this one is a Blue Enamel Heta Kosi 6304 Multi-Fuel Stove. The other two I sweep are different colours, one is green, and one

We recentlt took these amazing photographs of a Jackdaw hard at work in the farmyard of Vishwell Farm on our annual chimney sweeping visit to south Wales. They truly are amazing industrious creatures and can fill a chimney full of collected material in a