Stoves & Sweeps Ltd Stonehaven

14/09/2026

🔥 Stove Tip of the Week 🔥

As we head into the colder months and start lighting our stoves again, here’s a little reminder:

Take it easy on those first few fires. 🪵

If your stove has been sitting unused over the summer, allow it to warm up gradually rather than immediately loading it with a full load of logs. This allows the stove and flue to gradually return to operating temperature and helps avoid putting unnecessary stress on the appliance from a sudden increase in heat.

It’s also a good time to check that your door seal, glass and air controls are all in good condition before getting back into regular use.

And don’t forget your fuel — for wood-burning stoves, your logs should have a moisture content of 20% or less. A moisture meter is a simple way to check.

Burning wet or unsuitable wood can result in more smoke, less heat and increased deposits in your stove and chimney. Over time, these deposits can build up in the flue, potentially restricting the flue and increasing the risk of a chimney fire.

Using properly dry wood will help your stove burn more efficiently, produce more heat and burn cleaner. 🔥🪵

We also recommend having your stove and chimney swept at least once a year, or more frequently if your stove is used regularly or all year round.

A little preparation now can make for a much better burn all winter.

14/09/2026

This week’s little bit of stove knowledge comes from Charlton & Jenrick!

A modern Ecodesign stove is designed to make much better use of the energy in your wood than an open fire, helping more of that heat stay in your room rather than disappearing up the chimney.

Correct installation, good quality dry fuel and using your stove properly all play an important part in getting the best from your appliance. 🔥

We have Charlton & Jenrick stoves on display in our showroom, so if you’re considering a new stove, why not pop in and have a look for yourself?

📍 Stoves & Sweeps Ltd – Stonehaven
Come and see the stoves in person and have a chat with us about your options.

Friday Fire Facts brought to you with thanks to Charlton & Jenrick! 🔥

Charlton & Jenrick Ltd

10/09/2026

🧡 A wee friendly reminder from the team at Stoves & Sweeps! 🖤

Just a wee reminder that we do have a showroom, and our phone can get VERY busy!

Our showroom opening hours are 9:30am – 2:30pm, and this is our busy season — which means we’re usually juggling customers in the showroom, helping people on the phone, answering emails and generally keeping ourselves out of mischief! 😂

So, if you’ve tried calling and we haven’t answered, please don’t think we’re ignoring you. Chances are we’re either with a customer or already on another call.

We absolutely LOVE being busy and helping our customers, but sometimes the phone has to wait a wee minute. 📞🔥

So please bear with us, or send us an email and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can! ❤️

Or, if you're nearby, why not pop in and see us? 😊

When you come in, downstairs is where you’ll find our main stove showroom, with over 20 stoves on display, including our live Chilli Penguin stove 🔥.

You can have a look around, compare different styles and see one of our stoves properly lit and giving off some lovely heat.

Then head upstairs, where we’ve created a more homely, relaxed space. 🏡🔥

You’ll find our lovely comfy seating area right in front of our live Hunter Halo stove — the perfect spot to sit, warm up and have a chat with us about what you’re looking for.

We also have our Gazco electric stove and ESSE electric stove on display upstairs, so you can have a look at some of our electric options too.

We wanted upstairs to feel a little more like home rather than just a showroom — somewhere you can sit down, take your time and get a feel for what might work in your own space. 🧡

We really do appreciate your patience, especially during our busy season. We love seeing the showroom busy and helping our customers find the right stove. 🧡

Come in, have a look around, feel the heat and have a chat with us!

📞 01569 668033
📧 [email protected]

Stoves & Sweeps Ltd
Keeping Aberdeenshire warm, one stove at a time. 🔥 Hunter Stoves Group

10/09/2026

🔥 CHIMNEY SWEEPING SEASON IS HERE! 🔥

Just a wee reminder to all our customers that chimney sweeping season is now well underway, and our diary is already filling up quickly! 🧹🏠

We are taking lots of bookings at the moment, so if your chimney is due its annual sweep, now is the time to get your appointment booked in.

If you’ve used us before, you’ll know just how quickly our available slots can disappear — especially as we head towards the colder months! ❄️🔥

📅 Our 2026 diary is filling up fast
📅 Our 2027 diary is now OPEN for bookings too!

Don’t leave it until the last minute — get your sweep booked and have peace of mind knowing your chimney is ready for the season ahead. ❤️

📞 Give us a call on 01569 668033
📧 Email us at [email protected]

Just a wee note: If you’re trying to get through to us and we don’t answer, please bear with us! We may be busy dealing with customers on the showroom floor or already on another call. We will get back to you as soon as we can. 😊

Thank you, as always, for keeping us so busy and for continuing to support our small business! 🥰

Stoves & Sweeps Ltd
🧹🔥 Keeping your chimneys clean, safe & ready for winter.

08/09/2026

🔥 A WEE UPDATE FROM STOVES & SWEEPS LTD

We came back from our annual leave at the beginning of August, and since then we’ve had a lovely response from both our new and existing customers. ❤️

The busy season is certainly getting underway, with chimney sweeps, enquiries, quotations and installations keeping us on our toes.

We’re working our way through everything as efficiently as possible and, as always, our aim is to provide the same professional service and high standard of workmanship that our customers have come to expect from us.

If you’ve contacted us recently and are still waiting for a reply, please don’t think we’ve forgotten about you.

Sometimes messages get buried, emails can be missed and, with lots of enquiries coming through, the occasional message can unfortunately slip through the cracks.

📞 So please feel free to give us a wee nudge.

Send us another message, drop us an email or give us a call. We’re more than happy for you to chase us up — we’d much rather you did than sit wondering if we’ve received your enquiry!

And importantly, we are still welcoming new enquiries and taking bookings. 🔥

Whether you’re looking for a chimney sweep, considering a new stove or planning an installation, please get in touch. We’ll always do our best to respond and arrange a suitable time.

🏠 A WEE NOTE ABOUT OUR SHOWROOM

Our showroom is currently open Monday–Friday, 9:30am–2:30pm.

This is due to school commitments, as the school isn’t local — and unfortunately I haven’t quite mastered the art of pulling the guys off their jobs to cover the showroom! 😂 So our showroom hours are a little more limited at the moment. ❤️

Need an evening or weekend appointment? Not a problem.

Just drop us an email and we’ll do our best to arrange a time that suits you.

And one last thing… 👀

If you see our sliding door open, that means WE’RE IN! 😂

So even if it’s outside our usual advertised showroom hours and you see the door open, please pop in — you’re very welcome. ☕🔥

❤️ A HUGE THANK YOU

As always, we’d like to say a huge thank you to every one of our customers.

To those who continue to book with us, recommend us to friends and family, share our posts, leave reviews and support our local business — we genuinely appreciate it.

We’re proud to be a small, independent local business and even prouder of the reputation we’ve built through quality workmanship, professional service and looking after our customers.

So here’s to another busy season ahead. 🔥

Stoves & Sweeps Ltd
🔥 INSTALL • SWEEP • ADVISE 🔥

❤️ Thank you for your continued support.

08/09/2026

👋 WELCOME TO STOVES & SWEEPS LTD

We thought we’d take a moment to introduce ourselves and explain a little bit about what we want this page to be about.

🔥 We’re a small, independent local business, established for over 6 years, with our Company Director bringing over 17 years of experience in the stove and chimney industry.

We specialise in both stove installations and chimney sweeping, and over the years we’ve worked on a huge variety of appliances, chimneys and installations.

📍 A little bit about us

For 5 years, we were based on Robert Street in Stonehaven, before moving to our current showroom, where we have now been for over a year.

You'll find us beside the recycling centre in Stonehaven.

This is our only showroom and Stoves & Sweeps Ltd is our only company. ❤️

We’re also proud to live and reside here in Stonehaven, so this really is our local community too. We know many of our customers not just through the business, but from living locally ourselves.

We’re proud to be a small, local business and really appreciate the support we’ve received from our customers over the years.

But this page isn’t just about promoting our services...

💡 WE WANT IT TO BE HELPFUL!

We’re going to use this page to share tips, advice and information on how to look after your stove, chimney and appliance properly, along with things to look out for and ways you can help prevent unnecessary problems.

💷 Most importantly, we want to help save you money where we can.

We know that calling someone out to look at an appliance can sometimes result in a call-out charge — and sometimes the problem can be something simple that you could have checked yourself first.

We don't want you paying for an unnecessary call-out if a simple bit of advice can help.

If we can give you a quick bit of information that helps you understand what’s happening with your appliance, saves you an unnecessary visit or helps you avoid a problem in the first place, then that's exactly what we'll do.

⚠️ BUT — there are limits to what we can advise on from a Facebook post or message.

If the problem appears to be something more serious, or requires an inspection, a HETAS-registered installer should attend and assess the appliance and installation in person.

We will never encourage you to attempt something yourself when it needs a qualified professional to inspect it.

Our aim is simple: give you helpful advice where we can, but always put safety first.

Of course, if something does need professional attention, we'll tell you that too. We believe in being honest with our customers and giving you the information you need to make the right decision.

📚 So keep an eye on the page for:

🔥 Stove care & maintenance tips
🏠 Chimney & flue advice
⚠️ Safety information
💡 Troubleshooting tips
🧹 Chimney sweeping advice
💷 Ways to avoid unnecessary costs
❓ Answers to some of the common questions we get asked

And if there's something you'd like us to cover, just ask!

We're always happy to help where we can — even if it means saving you money and telling you that you don't actually need us out! 😂

❤️ If you find our tips and advice useful, please give our page a follow and share it with friends and family.

That way you won't miss our future advice, safety information and helpful tips — and you might just save yourself an unnecessary call-out!

Thanks for supporting our small business over the years. ❤️

Stoves & Sweeps Ltd
🔥 Install • Sweep • Advise 🔥

17+ years of experience | 6+ years established

08/09/2026

🚨 CO ALARMS – DO YOU HAVE ONE, AND IS IT IN THE RIGHT PLACE? 🚨

Something we are seeing more and more while carrying out our chimney sweeping services is that customers either don't have a Carbon Monoxide (CO) alarm installed, or the alarm they do have isn't positioned correctly.

As well as installing stoves and appliances, we're regularly in customers' homes carrying out sweeping and servicing — so we get to see this first-hand.

⚠️ Carbon monoxide is colourless, odourless and tasteless, meaning you cannot see, smell or taste it.

That's why having a suitable CO alarm, correctly positioned and regularly tested, is so important.

🏠 For properties in Scotland, the Scottish Government Building Standards Technical Handbook provides guidance on where CO alarms should be positioned.

🚫 They shouldn't simply be placed wherever is convenient, hidden behind furniture or curtains, inside cupboards, or in other locations where the alarm may not work effectively.

If you've had a stove or other appliance installed, your installer should advise you on the correct location for your CO alarm and ensure it is positioned appropriately as part of the installation.

The correct position can depend on the type of appliance, the room it is installed in and the manufacturer's instructions, so it's important that the alarm is positioned correctly for your particular installation.

⚠️ Once your CO alarm has been correctly positioned, please don't move it.

We understand that sometimes it may seem like it's in an inconvenient place, but moving it could mean it is no longer positioned correctly and may not provide the protection it is designed to provide.

If you're unsure whether your CO alarm is in the correct location, speak to your installer before moving it.

We also regularly come across properties where there is no CO alarm at all.

If you have a stove, fire, boiler or another combustion appliance in your home, it's worth taking a couple of minutes to check yours.

🔎 Not sure if your CO alarm is positioned correctly?

The Scottish Government's Building Standards Technical Handbook provides the official guidance, and as a HETAS-approved business, we're always happy to advise our customers where we can.

📖 For more information on Carbon Monoxide alarms and their correct positioning, please see the HETAS guidance below:
👉 [HETAS – Carbon Monoxide Awareness & Alarm Guidance] HETAS

🔥 Stay safe and keep your home protected.

Stoves & Sweeps Ltd

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an extremely poisonous gas that has no smell or taste. It can be left undetected if no CO alarm is present. 🚨

CO can be present in the fumes from the combustion of fuels that aren’t burnt under the correct conditions. Fuels such as gas, oil, solid mineral fuel, and biomass all have the potential to emit CO.

Find CO safety tips on the HETAS website. 👇🔗

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07/09/2026

🔥 STOVE TIP OF THE WEEK 🔥

A STOVE ISN’T A BONFIRE! 🔥

It might be tempting to throw all sorts of things onto the fire… but please don’t! 😂

Your stove is designed to burn suitable, untreated firewood — not household rubbish, cardboard, painted wood or treated timber.

🚫 Never burn:
❌ Household rubbish
❌ Painted or varnished wood
❌ Treated timber
❌ Plastics or packaging

Burning these materials can produce harmful fumes, create excessive smoke and increase deposits inside your stove and chimney. It can also potentially damage your stove and chimney system.

🔥 The golden rule: If you wouldn't put it in a wood-burning stove manufacturer's manual… don't put it in the stove!

Stick to good-quality, properly seasoned or kiln-dried firewood and let your stove do what it was designed to do — keep you warm! 🪵🔥

Stoves & Sweeps Ltd
🧹 Keeping your chimney clean & your stove burning safely.

03/09/2026

Hunter Stoves Group

🔥 Hunter Halo — now in three new colours!

We have the Hunter Halo on display in our showroom in the classic Black, and it's certainly been a popular one.

But Hunter have now introduced three new colours to the Halo range — and we think they look fantastic!

The Halo has a lovely modern design while still giving you that traditional stove feel, making it a great option for anyone looking for something a little different.

And the best part?

You don't just have to look at pictures online.

Our black Hunter Halo is on live display in our showroom upstairs, so if you're considering a new stove, you're welcome to come in and have a look at it in person.

You can see the size, finish and design for yourself and chat to us about whether it's suitable for your room and how you intend to use it.

🏠 Stoves aren't one-size-fits-all, so choosing the right appliance for your room and your home is just as important as choosing the colour you love.

And while you're here, come in, have a coffee, sit back and enjoy the heat from the stove. ☕🔥

We're happy to have a chat, answer your questions and help you find the right stove for your home.

If you'd like to find out more about the Hunter Halo or any of the other stoves we have available, pop in and see us at the showroom or get in touch.

So, which colour would you choose? 👀

01/09/2026

🔥 ARE YOU LIGHTING YOUR STOVE THE WRONG WAY? 🔥

Stove Tip of the Week!

At this time of year, we start getting quite a few calls from customers saying “my stove isn’t drawing properly.”

Sometimes, there may be an issue that needs checking — but sometimes the problem can simply be that the flue is cold.

As the weather gets cooler and your stove hasn't been used for a while, a cold flue can make it harder to establish a good draw when first lighting the fire.

So, here's how we recommend lighting your stove using the top-down method: 🪵🔥

🪵 Larger logs on the bottom
🪵 Smaller kindling on top
🔥 Firelighter at the very top

Lighting the fire from the top allows the flue to warm up gradually and establish a good draw, helping to reduce smoke and get your stove burning efficiently.

💡 Our tip: Give your stove and flue time to warm up before assuming there is a problem.

We don't want our customers spending money on an unnecessary call-out if the issue is simply related to starting a fire in a cold flue.

Of course, if your stove continues to struggle to draw, is producing excessive smoke, or you notice anything unusual, please don't ignore it — get it checked by a professional.

And remember, always use good-quality, dry seasoned wood and follow your stove manufacturer's instructions.

🔥 A good fire starts with a good draw!

Stoves & Sweeps Ltd
Solid Fuel Installation • Chimney Sweeping • Stove Maintenance