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Nov /Dec '08. Just returned from a couple of weeks holiday, and trying to get over the jetlag! The workshop's awful cold compared to the carribean.. finishing off a goat's head companion set, and a firegrate commission. Next a couple of standard lamps. Hobbyhorse time again..Winslow Green are apparently about to actually apply for planning permission for the first time. If you're local, and wish to comment on their plans PLEASE give them feedback and/or write to John Bercow M.P. to express your concerns. It will probably go to appeal, and the more evidence of local resistance the better! |
Jan '09 And a happy New Year one and all...the crunch has descended, and I have to admit that paying work is in short supply right now. Spent the early part of January doing some much needed maintenance in the workshop, painting floors, filling holes and adding some insulation here and there to try and keep the heat in! We also welcomed a new arrival to the family just after Christmas..an Irish Red Terrier pup called Molly. She's fairly high maintenance, so in a way it's just as well I've not been working flat out. She's just about worn out My partner & I, not to mention Ash, the Deerhound. I do have an exciting new project to announce.....following a survey to quote to fit dampers in a customer's existing fireplace canopies, and taking a look at a large inglenook fireplace in the same property, I commented that the only thing he could really do to save heat loss without ruining the original period fireplace would be to fit a chimney top damper. As far as I know, no one in the U.K. is making or retailing this kind of damper for the large fireplace. Enter Ironwill! Please keep an eye on the fireplace section here, as well as my new site www.chimneydampers.co.uk As soon as I have photos and details available I will be offering made to measure chimney dampers for inglenook chimneys. Opened and closed from the fireplace via a stainless steel cable this device will dramatically reduce draughts, heating bills, and your contribution to global (and local!) warming. If you're lucky enough to own a period property with an original working inglenook you will know that vast quantities of expensively heated warm air is lost up these flues hour after hour, day in, day out. I hope this new enterprise will bring me some work, and do the planet some good as well. Please let me know if this is of interest to you, and I'll forward details when I can. |