A trip out to Suffolk for this week’s blog! This job involved sweeping a rare retro stove, a Franklin Majestic 98-1800 Wood-Burning Stove. I had not come across one of these stoves before and it proved easy enough to sweep, but very dirty
Read MoreSweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford – The Rectory Great Oakley
Here we are again, sweeping for the Bishop of Chelmsford on a Sunday in August, the only day of the week that we have time to do these jobs. On this occasion we were doing the Rectory at Great Oakley, which just outside
Read MoreWendons Ambo – Morso 7940 Wood-Burning Stove
Yes, this week’s serving for the blog is yet another Morso stove! Yes there are lots of them! As I have said before, is it just me, or do Morso make more different models of stove than any other stove company? They seem to
Read MoreVixen and her Cubs on a roof in Walberswick
Constantly looking at chimneys, I quite often get to see thatched animals on thatched roofs whilst I am working. This is not the case on this occasion, I noticed these thatched animals whilst I was on holiday for a week in February at Walberswick
Read MoreMilton – Jotul F105R Multi-Fuel Stove
Here is the rather space age looking Jotul F105R Multi-Fuel Stove, I recently sept this example at an address in Milton. This address was literally a few doors away from another address I sweep at in Milton, so next year I have arranged to do
Read MoreBirchanger – Stovax Riva F66 (Freestanding) Multi-Fuel Stove
Here is something unusual for this week’s blog, a freestanding Stovax Riva, you don’t often see one of these! Although I do see lots and lots of the cassette version of the Stovax Riva I don’t think that I have ever seen a freestanding
Shepreth – Morso 1510 Multi-Fuel Stove
Is it just me, or do Morso make more different models of stove than any other stove company? They seem to be continually updating their range of stoves with new models, whilst discontinuing older models. This example is a Morso 1510 Multi-Fuel Stove
Read MoreBirchanger – Stovax Riva F66 (Freestanding) Multi-Fuel Stove
Here is something unusual for this week’s blog, a freestanding Stovax Riva, you don’t often see one of these! Although I do see lots and lots of the cassette version of the Stovax Riva I don’t think that I have ever seen a freestanding version,
Read MoreLittle Bardfield – Coalbrookdale Darby Multi-Fuel Stove
Here is something of a survivor from days gone by, Coalbrookdale stoves and worthy of my weekly blog. I see plenty of retro Coalbrookdale stoves around the area, but the vast majority of them are the Little Wenlock model or less so the Severn
Read MoreSweeping in Elsworth, Cambridgeshire
Here is a bit of a novelty to us, as a result of a request for a favour from one of our regular customers, we went to sweep a stove chimney at their close friends in the village of Elsworth, Cambridgeshire. Beautiful though it
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