After our recent summer holiday to Cyprus (George & Adrienne’s villa in Latchi again), both Claire and I are beginning to wonder whether they have Building Regulations in Cyprus and if they do, we’re guessing some Cypriots just choose to ignore them! Here are

 
This week’s offering is a rather local stove to us, in the neighbouring village of Debden. The customer here recently changed from an antique Jotul stove that didn’t heat the room adequately, to this stylish, contemporary Hunter Allure 5 Wood-Burning Stove. The stove was

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