Chimney Caps 2
Combining the chimneys and caps from different producers
If you are buying the whole
condensates,_the_advanced_chimney_solutions.php">chimney system, you should buy the chimney cap as well, as it was designed for your type of chimney and serves it best. You can, of course, buy the cap from another producer, but thereīs little higher risk that the chimney cap will be blown off your roof by the wind. Although there companies offering chimney cap repair it usually cost the same as the new cap if the cap falls down from 30 ft (usually itīs seriously damaged). You can try to repair it yourself, with the
hammer and pair of
tongs but unless you are very handy, you will just create a non-functioning piece of crap.
Reverse chimney draft and the vacuum chimney caps
If you have an open
fireplace at home, at the time it is not used you might notice the so called
"reverse draft" when your chimney sucks the air from itĄs top opening (from the roof) and exhales it in the room where the fireplace is installed. As the reverse draft brings also all the smells and exhalates from the inner part of the chimney, your starts to smell (smoke,
carbon) and your floor around the fireplace is always dirty. To avoid the reverse sucking of the chimney you should consider the vacuum chimney cap installation. The draft improving vacuum chimney caps reliabily stop the back sucking of your chimney.
