I had a rather busy week this week; on Friday I completed the Guild of Master Sweeps CCTV inspection and integrity testing course at Spec Flue in Sudbury. A great day out, which was very instructive, and I was able to meet some old friends

To be honest, we have probably swept the stove chimney in the vicarage at Thaxted more times than any other vicarage across the whole of Essex. Like at Saffron Walden Thaxted Vicarage is some distance from the church, located as it is down Watling Lane,

 
This weeks blog is a total one off and a real rarity, I can say with all honesty I have not seen an example of this weeks appliance before, except perhaps on the internet. This is an example of an antique French Thermocet Wood-Burning

Barbas are not the most common of stoves in the area, but I do see a number of them around, this is an example of a Barbas Bellfires Box 20 52 Wood-Burning Stove that I recently swept in Water End Ashdon. To be

Here is another Rais Stove that I have swept recently, this time in Radwinter – I am seeing a lot more of these attractive, contemporary Rais stoves around the area. This example is the Rais Q-Tee 2C Wood-Burning Stove. I really do like

This is one of the things that French stove manufaturers do rather well, making colourful enamel finished stove. It is something that they have been doing way back to the late 1800. I recently came across this Antique Green Enamel Franco Belge Lorraine

Yes, they do say that there is a first time for everything, and this week we definitely had a first for us whilst we were out working. Regularly on our travels we come away from customers’ addresses with gifts, people are so kind; they

It seems to be a very popular blog when I write about the villages and churches we have visited whilst sweeping for the Dioceses of Chelmsford. So, for this week’s blog here are some more of the beautiful medieval churches we have visited, this time

 
Here is a stove that is classically recognizable as a Franco-Belge Stove, looking very similar to the smaller Franco-Belge Savoy, Franco-Belge Viceroy, Montfort and the Belfort. But it is not, it is the larger Franco-Belge Camargue, and not a model I have come across

Well here it is, what is possibly the oldest Chimney in Wales, in the village of Carew close to Tenby. We have just had a short week away, travelling around the country visiting family as well as sightseeing, when we came across this chimney.