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Invicta Ove Wood-Burning Stove in Wicken Bonhunt

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Invicta Ove Wood-Burning Stove in Wicken Bonhunt

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I recently swept the flue to this rather space-age Invicta Ove Wood-Burning Stove in an address in Wicken Bonhunt. I think it is a fabulously shaped stove; it has a massive 10 Kw firebox. The stove was positioned in a very large room with a

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Thatched Pet Dogs Ashdon

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Thatched Pet Dogs Ashdon

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Here is a really nice photo of a family’s pet dogs enshrined in the thatch on the roof of their house. What a really nice idea I thought and a lovely tribute to their pets. I don’t know if you can recognize the breed of

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An unusual Clearview Multi-Fuel Stove in Newport

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An unusual Clearview Multi-Fuel Stove in Newport

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I recently swept this unusual Clearview Pioneer Multi-Fuel Stove at an address in Newport. It is unusual because as you can see in the photograph it has a cooking compartment above the fire box. Quite appropriately this stove was in the kitchen of the house

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A Lucky Brush for the New Year and a New Decade 2020

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A Lucky Brush for the New Year and a New Decade 2020

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A Happy New Year and New Decade to everyone, to make the point here is a picture of one of my brushes emerging from a chimney at a house in Widdington just before Christmas! It is supposed to be lucky to see the brush out

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A Happy Christmas to all my Customers – Snowy Thatched Animals

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A Happy Christmas to all my Customers – Snowy Thatched Animals

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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

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Not a Thatch Animal but a Short Stirling Bomber – Little Thurlow

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Not a Thatch Animal but a Short Stirling Bomber – Little Thurlow

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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

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A New Apprentice? Katie Does Work Experience

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A New Apprentice? Katie Does Work Experience

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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.

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A Rika Amato Stove Swept in Sturma

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A Rika Amato Stove Swept in Sturma

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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

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Gilles Biomass Boiler Flue Swept in Wickhambrook

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Gilles Biomass Boiler Flue Swept in Wickhambrook

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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

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Birds Nest Removed from M Design Stove Flue in Radwinter

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Birds Nest Removed from M Design Stove Flue in Radwinter

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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

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