I recently swept the flue of this Charnwood Island II Stove at an address in Clavering. As can be seen from the photo’s the baffle was very distorted and warped due to over firing the stove. I did explain to the customer how this

An extra blog this week as I have so many things I want to put on here and not enough time to do so. One thing I have noted in the area is the amount of domestic biomass boilers that I am seeing around

Yes, its time for some more thatched animals; here is a lamentation of swans from a house in Debden where I was working last week. The British collective noun for a group of swans, but they can also be referred to as a Bevy,

I came across this La Nordica Extraflame Domestic Pellet Boiler at an address in Stisted recently, and thought that it would make for a interesting blog. Although I do come across domestic pellet boilers in people’s homes, they are rather rare, and I can

Here is another stove that I had not come across before, a J. R. Workshop Double-sided Nova Multi-Fuel Stove, that I swept at an address in Withersfield recently. The stove is fitted into a large bungalow, with a substantial sitting room on one side

Those of you who regularly follow my blog will remember that about a year ago my youngest daughter Katie joined me for a day’s work experience – This was part of fulfilling part of the National Curriculum in year 10. Well recently my eldest

I recently swept this ACR Neo 3 Wood-burning Stove at an address in Saffron Walden; in fact I have been sweeping the flue for this stove for the past few years now. I thought it would be good to include it in my blog

I realized this week that I have not had a blog of a thatched animal for quite some time now, so this week I thought I would put that right! All work and no play and all that!
These pictures of a running horse

Well, I had not seen one of these before, the Interoven Goodwood Stove – I swept this one recently at a farmhouse just outside Hempstead. The customer told me that her father had installed the stove in the late 1940’s when he had renovated

Yes, Last week we returned to work in London when we swept the biomass boiler flue at the Arches Apartment Block in Childers Street Deptford. This apartment complex is rather large, occupying as it does half the length of one side of Childers Street