What a fantastic week of weather we have just had, lovely warm sunshine all week. Yes, spring has definitely been in the air and there are spring flowers everywhere, snow drops, crocuses and daffodils. With spring beginning to arrive I thought it was time

In line with my blogs about rare or unusual stoves, how about this Dik Guerts Odin Front Wood-Burning Stove recently swept in Bishops Stortford? I think that it certainly has the wow factor with its strikingly unusual and contemporary appearance? I can’t say that

Continuing this week with the theme of unusual or rare stoves, I came across this Portway 1 Multi-Fuel Stove at an address in Thaxted recently. I had actually heard of Portway Stoves previously, but I had never come across on whilst out sweeping, so

Recently I seem to be coming across stove manufactured by companies I have never come across before, or unusual models of stoves of well-known companies. This frequently has its own challenges in learning how to dismantle a brand of stove you are not familiar

Hopefully this week’s blog links in nicely back to last week’s blog about the Dean Forge 105SE Multi-Fuel Stove I recently swept in Great Sampford. In that blog I mentioned that I had never come across the Dean Forge 105SE before, whilst sweeping numerous

The reason I have included this stove in my blog is the fact that although I sweep many Dean Forge stoves, probably models from the entire range, I have never come across the 105SE before. Although internally it is easy to work on and

I recently swept the flue of this rather attractive Dik Geurts Ivar 5 Wood-Burning Stove at an address in Great Sampford. I was quite taken with this stove as it has a nice big piece of stove glass through which the fire can be

Yes, we wish all our customers and friends a Very Happy Christmas! And a Happy and much improved New Year. The Christmasy photos are of my own chimneys and Maple Lane in Radwinter during the recent fall of snow in early December – Very festive

I recently swept the flue of this rather attractive Piazzetta Wood-Burning Stove at an address in Cuttlers Green Thaxted. It is an unusual and somewhat rare stove in this area, in fact I only sweep one other of this kind and that is located

 
 
 
 
 
I’ve not seen one of these before, a Sampson Stove – I have had a look on the internet and can find nothing about it or the company that made it? The stove was in a thatched property in