Wishing all my Customers a very Happy Christmas – and I hope you have lots of warming fires over the Christmas break with friends and family gathered around the winter fireside. For todays Christmas blog I have a photo of a snowy fox and a

Yes, thatch but not a thatched animal this time – ‘It’s thatch Jim but not as we know it”!
It’s a World War 2 thatched Short Stirling four engine heavy bomber. The first of the four engine heavies prior to the Lancaster and Halifax and

I had an extra pair of hands for a day this week, when my youngest daughter Katie had to do work experience. Apparently, it is now part of the national curriculum that in year 10 all school children have to do a day’s work experience.

I have chosen to do this week’s blog on this very unusual stove that I swept at an address in Sturma this week. As you can see from the photo that it is a most striking and unusual stove. It has a cooking compartment at

Here is another example of industrial scale sweeping that I have undertaken! This is a Gilles Biomass Boiler that was in an outbuilding on a large estate, supplying heating and hot water to all parts of the estate – The boiler is used to supply

A tale from close to home this week when I removed a bird’s nest from a flue I was seeping for an M Design stove in a house in Radwinter. It’s always the way, last job of the day on a Saturday, after a busy

I recently swept this very unusual and attractive Green Enamel Godin Stove at an address in Thaxted. I think these antique stoves are rather beautiful and in the right setting they can really add to the ambiance of a room and add value to a

A bit of a funny story this week. I recently swept a chimney to an open fire for Intercounty Lettings in Shepreth near Royston. Apparently, the property had been empty for quite sometime before being let out; consequently the day I attended the house was

Something just a little bit different this week, a customer’s house name, but a name with a difference. This unusual name was on a customer’s house where I swept recently in Halstead. I was baffled by the house name as it did not appear to

I very recently found this bird of prey up a large inglenook chimney in a thatched property at Tindon End. Looking at the colouring and plumage of the bird, I think it was a Kestral, but I could be wrong, I’m no ornithologist! As can