There are not many of these old style Jotul 602N Wood-Burning Stove these days although Jotul still manufacture them as an eco stove, the F602. I do see a few of these about with their characteristic crosshatched glass front, but I have only ever

I recently completed the HETAS Chimney Sweeps 5 Year Refresher & Technical Update Course and have the certificate to prove it! It was a day long course completed at the H Firkins Training Centre in Milton Keynes and there were 8 other sweeps undertaking

Here is something unusual that I just had to include in my blog, this is a Wamslea 900 Solid Fuel Range that I swept recently in a house in Stocking Green. Unfortunately, it had a rather tricky factory made chimney arrangement with an

I just had to include this photograph of two little helpers giving me all their assistance at an address in Belchamp Otten, I thought it was so amusing, and I hope you do too! This is Teddy and Ellie (their full names being

I saw this sad but rather interesting story on the Guild of Master Sweeps website this week and thought I would share it. On 11th February 1875, George Brewster was forced by his master to climb and clean a chimney at what was then the County

I recently saw this photograph taken in 1972 of a part demolished tenement block in Kelvinhaugh Street Glasgow. It is of interest because at a glance it shows how chimneys are constructed and how they remain separate, whilst feathering into a single chimney stack.

 I sweep many, many of the old Parkray multi-fuel room heaters across the area, particularly in the old Braintree District council houses that I sweep for Eastlight Community Homes. We have been working our contract with Eastlight Community Homes for over 5 years now and

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 Here is a salutary tale from Thaxted this week about the need to have a chimney regularly swept – A barn conversion caught fire and lost most of its roof when soot deposits in the chimney caught fire and spread to the loft space. The

This week we were again sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford and we were quite some way from home, sweeping the Vicarage at Elm Road Leytonstone and All Saints Rectory at Purleigh near Maldon. All Saints Church at Purleigh is a beautiful medieval church