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Posted by utsuxs@hotmail.com on November 15, 2009, 12:25 am
Have a curiosity question that I hope the gurus can help me with. My
house has the typical clay chimney surrounded by brick. It does not
have one of those aluminum caps. The house apparently went decades
with out one. On my street I say only 50% of the houses have chimney
caps.
How vital are these caps? Are they vital?
I'm not comfortable going up there myself, so I'll to pay someone, and
unfortunately they'll charge a pretty penny just for a small job.
Thank you
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Posted by Tony Hwang on November 15, 2009, 12:53 am
utsuxs@hotmail.com wrote:
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> Have a curiosity question that I hope the gurus can help me with. My
> house has the typical clay chimney surrounded by brick. It does not
> have one of those aluminum caps. The house apparently went decades
> with out one. On my street I say only 50% of the houses have chimney
> caps.
> How vital are these caps? Are they vital?
> I'm not comfortable going up there myself, so I'll to pay someone, and
> unfortunately they'll charge a pretty penny just for a small job.
> Thank you
Hi,
My first house as built in arly '70 which had a wood burning FP and hat
kinda chimney. Next house built in mid-70's had same FP and chimney
neither had cap. From then on 4 more house with direc vent NG FPs, no
more such chimneys.
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Posted by Reed on November 15, 2009, 1:13 am
utsuxs@hotmail.com wrote:
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> Have a curiosity question that I hope the gurus can help me with. My
> house has the typical clay chimney surrounded by brick. It does not
> have one of those aluminum caps. The house apparently went decades
> with out one. On my street I say only 50% of the houses have chimney
> caps.
> How vital are these caps? Are they vital?
> I'm not comfortable going up there myself, so I'll to pay someone, and
> unfortunately they'll charge a pretty penny just for a small job.
>
>
> Thank you
I installed one mainly to keep the raccoons and birds out.
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Posted by cjt on November 15, 2009, 1:18 am
Reed wrote:
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> utsuxs@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Have a curiosity question that I hope the gurus can help me with. My
>> house has the typical clay chimney surrounded by brick. It does not
>> have one of those aluminum caps. The house apparently went decades
>> with out one. On my street I say only 50% of the houses have chimney
>> caps.
>> How vital are these caps? Are they vital?
>> I'm not comfortable going up there myself, so I'll to pay someone, and
>> unfortunately they'll charge a pretty penny just for a small job.
>> Thank you
>
> I installed one mainly to keep the raccoons and birds out.
Same here, except 'possums.
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Posted by Ed Pawlowski on November 15, 2009, 1:14 am
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> Have a curiosity question that I hope the gurus can help me with. My
> house has the typical clay chimney surrounded by brick. It does not
> have one of those aluminum caps. The house apparently went decades
> with out one. On my street I say only 50% of the houses have chimney
> caps.
> How vital are these caps? Are they vital?
> I'm not comfortable going up there myself, so I'll to pay someone, and
> unfortunately they'll charge a pretty penny just for a small job.
> Thank you
It depends.
My house did not have one on the chimney for the woodstove. I had a bird
get in there, a year or two later a squirrel got stuck. Both animals had to
be taken out inside the house, a real PITA. After that, I put a stainless
steel cap on.
A cap keeps out the wildlife, but, I get condensation from the woodstove now
when the products of combustion hits the cold cap.
I don't have a cap on the chimney for the oil burner and never had a
problem.
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> house has the typical clay chimney surrounded by brick. It does not
> have one of those aluminum caps. The house apparently went decades
> with out one. On my street I say only 50% of the houses have chimney
> caps.
> How vital are these caps? Are they vital?
> I'm not comfortable going up there myself, so I'll to pay someone, and
> unfortunately they'll charge a pretty penny just for a small job.
> Thank you