Stoves Installed

A Merseyside based company, Stoves Installed is able to offer a first class job, whether installing a stove, servicing a chimney or performing maintenance and repairs for you.

About Stoves Installed 

They are based in Hightown, Merseyside but have a extensive customer base, with clients in Lancashire, Cheshire and Merseyside.  The company was originally in the construction industry for many years, and then decided to diversify, getting qualified in HETAS, and becoming a well respected, and efficient stove installation company.

The services that Stoves Installed offer include:

* Complete After Care whichever service required
* Always being contactable on the phone for queries
* Punctual workmen
* Site Survey if you need one
* They offer a range of stove packages, costing from £699
* They work with the best materials according to British Safety Standards
* Installing carbon monoxide alarms when installing a stove
* Repairs to the wood burning stove
* Repairs to chimneys
* If needing chimney maintenance, then Stoves Installed will undertake a survey, which reveals any areas needing work, and then detail the cost within the quote.

Contact:

Call: 07454 800679
(Day)

Call: 0151 9292769
(Evening)

Stoves Installed are also on facebook and twitter

History of the wood burning fire and stove

Picture credited to Jake Fitzjones Photography Ltd

There have been many different types of wood burning stove throughout human history, given that people need to keep themselves warm during cold weather. They have been in existence since 3600BC, a religious site in Malta, was excavated in 1827, revealed that the people on the island had used a fire to heat their temples.

It took Britons until the 16th century before it became more common to vent a fire through a chimney. One of the earliest examples of wood burning stove was called a fire chamber, which was enclosed on three sides by masonry and covered by a plate of iron.

By 1735, Francois Cuvillies designed a adapted version of the fire chamber, which was called a stew stove. It included the addition of several holes in the iron, among other changes.

1744 Benjamin Franklin, decided that he wanted to produce a variety of stove. He created cast iron stoves that were more efficient than some of those that had come before. It’s now that stoves are truly efficient, featuring airtight construction and are also better for the environment due to the inclusion of catalytic converters which burn waste fumes.

(Information collected from both stove industry alliance and Wikipedia pages on 26th Feb 2016)

Reading this brief history of the wood burning stove, will hopefully have excited your interest. If so, and you want to get a stove of your very own then you need to contact Stoves Installed.

 It’s a very efficient and professional HETAS registered company that has been installing wood burning stoves for a number of years. They offer chimney services and will maintain and repair things for you as well.

Contact them

Call: 07454 800679
(day)

Call: 0151 9292769
(evening only)

They are also contactable via Facebook and Twitter.

Their website address is http://www.stovesinstalled.co.uk/

Chimney Sweeps throughout History

Chimney Sweeps of the past didn’t exactly have as a light hearted time of it, as Mary Poppins, and the character of Bert in particular would make you believe.  Children as young as four were sent up flues, that could be 9 inches wide, meaning that they could become trapped, and hundreds did.

The usual type of child that became a ‘climbing boy’ was from the workhouse, and parishes would sign Papers of Indenture, in a bid to ease the burden on the parish’s finances. The papers were always signed before a magistrate and meant that the child was bound to the Master Chimney Sweep for seven years.

The Master Chimney Sweep was supposed to do the following

* Teach the child a trade
* Keep and feed him
* Provide them with a second lot of clothes
* Clean the child once a week
* Allow them to go to church
* Not send the child up a flue when the fire was still burning

A typical day for a apprentice was busy and included these duties

* Drum up business by calling ‘Soot oh, sweep’
* Clean four or five chimneys
* Child removed extra clothes and boots to climb up chimney
* Shimmy up flue  
* Dislodge loose soot with brush
* Climb back down  
* Clean up soot and take to Master Chimney Sweep

When the seven years training came to a end, those that had managed it, became a journeyman sweep, and worked under any Master Chimney Sweep they wanted.

The government tried several times to regulate the profession.

1788 Chimney Sweeps Act tried to make sure that each Master Chimney Sweep only had up to six apprentices who were all over eight years old. It was ignored by and large.

1840 Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act officially banned use of children in cleaning chimneys. They were supposed to be at least twenty one before undertaking the job. This was once again largely ignored.

1875 was the first time that there was real regulations, as that Act reinforced the 1840 law. Master Chimney Sweeps had to get authorisation from the police to work in any area.

Modern Sweeps

Those working today have a understanding of the dangers of flue deposits and carbon monoxide.  Their tools include: cameras and vacuums.  They sweep from the bottom of the chimney.  They are trained to recognise and repair hazards like flammable creosote, and undertake firebox and damper repair.

(Information learnt from chimneysweeper.co.uk on 26th February 2016)

I hope that you have enjoyed this article. If you want to use the services of a modern day sweep, then the firm that you need to contact is Stoves Installed.

Stoves Installed are a Merseyside based company, who have been working for a long time. They are a well respected business, with clients in Lancashire, Cheshire and Merseyside.

Contact Stoves Installed
Call:
07454 800679 (day)
or Call:
0151 9292769 (evening only).

They are also contactable via Facebook and Twitter.

Their website address is http://www.stovesinstalled.co.uk/