Don Oakes owned and operated his chimney maintenance business, Don’s Chimney Care, since the mid 80’s and serviced the majority of Franklin county as well as several local towns in the neighboring counties.  After 20 years of operating this business, in 2005 he decided that he would like to have a place to send his customers to purchase a high quality heating appliance combined with the excellent customer service that he had already been providing.  The merger of Don’s Chimney Care with the retail sales of hearth products took place in September of 2006 and Don’s Stove Shop, Inc. (aka Don’s Chimney Care & Stove Shop) was born. We are a small business with only 6 full time employees, a couple of seasonal employees and Ashes the shop kitty who oversees the operations and the bird feeders.