Yes, yes, I know, Stovax are a very popular make of stoves, and you see many of them about whilst sweeping, particularly the Stovax Stockton and the Riva Cassettes. But what you don’t see are examples of the Stovax Midi Riva Plus, I came across

This week’s blog is a bit of extra heritage detail continued from last week’s description of the Vicarage of All Saints at Maldon. In the large sitting room of the building there are a number of surviving examples of medieval wall painting. These sections

This is the second occasion that we have been to sweep at the medieval vicarage of All Saints in Maldon. It is an amazing 15th century timber framed house that still retains a wealth of original features. Originally it was built as a hall house

 Here is something a bit different fore this week’s blog – As you will have seen from previous blogs, we sweep a number of biomass boilers across our sweeping area, ranging from small domestic boilers to large appliances that heat a number of properties or

In the middle of the week we were working in Great Sampford at Post Cottage when we took this photo of the view from the front garden. A fantastic heritage shot of the centre of a quintessential English village. The church of St Michael

We had a real treat this week when we were sweeping in Little Bradley, where the most loveable and affectionate Cocker Spaniel Alfie lives. Alfie likes nothing more than to have big hugs and lots of fussing, and if you stop stroking him he will

I came across this Stovax Riva 2 323-325 Wood-Burning Inset Stove at an address in Wimbish just the other day. This was the first time I had seen one of these Riva 2’s, like most sweeps I see plenty of the Stovax Riva’s as

No, on this occasion I was not sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford when I visited great Canfield church, but for a private customer who lives in a large house nearby. The thing that strikes you immediately when approaching this small Essex church is its

I haven’t posted a picture of any thatched animals we have come across in our work for quite some time now, so here are some thatched ducklings we saw on a recently thatched roof in Ashdon. This is a job we have been doing for

It was a first for us this week when we had Vicki accompany us for a couple of days. Vicki is one of our longstanding customers and has always had wood-burning stoves. Over the years we have helped train as many as 15 male