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

Another exotic thatched animal for todays blog, a majestic lion, but king of the jungle is a real misnomer as everyone knows that the lion lives in the African savannah. What is certain hear is that this fellow certainly is a handsome chap, if

I do see a lot of Mendip stoves in and around the area, but not so much around Saffron Walden, but in the main I find them in and around the Royston area, and I can’t think of seeing any in Suffolk around Haverhill

 
Here is quite a popular stove and a relatively new name on the block, Chilli Penguin Stoves. You might remember that I have previously had a blog featuring the Chilli Penguin Chubby 5 Stove. I recently swept this example of a Chilli Penguin Woody

Here we are sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford again, and on this occasion it was the vicarage at Margaretting near Ingatestone, close to Chelmsford. We have swept the vicarage chimney on around four or five occasions now and are quite familiar with it. To

This is a stove that gets a tremendous amount of use, twenty four seven in the winter, and as a consequence, we sweep the chimney twice a year, just to ensure that there are never any issues. The stove gets so much use

 
Increasingly it seems to me that most of the blogs I write about stoves are either about antique stoves or examples of rare stoves or stoves I am unfamiliar with. Here is a case of the latter, a stove make that I had never