Critters of all kinds love flues without chimney caps. Don’t let this happen to you. Call SmartSweep to install a chimney cap today!
Our manufacturer’s lifetime warranty stainless steel caps help to:
- Keep Out Critters
- Help Keep Sparks Down
- Help Reduce Wind-Induced Downdrafts
- Keep Out Rain That Destroys Metal & Masonry Inside
- A stainless-steel cap will never need to be replaced due to rusting
Above is an example of a cheap black galvanized chimney cap that was probably purchased from a local home-improvement store. Look at all the rust stains streaking down the chimney! SmartSweep can remove those rust stains, but it sure is less expensive to have us simply install a good-quality stainless steel chimney cap that won’t ever rust and has a manufacturer’s lifetime warranty, before the stains appear! We don’t even carry black galvanized caps on our trucks, because of how unsatisfied our customers are with them.
Below is one of our stainless steel chimney caps. This cap has a manufacturer’s lifetime warranty against defects in workmanship and will never rust!
As a rule of thumb, the single best thing you can do for your fireplace, wood stove, or other venting systems is to install a quality cap on top. Chimney caps protect your system from rain that causes rusting and mortar deterioration inside your chimney. Caps help reduce wind-induced downdrafts, keep sparks off your roof, and most importantly, keep critters such as squirrels, birds, and bats outside and out of your flue. There’s nothing worse than coming face-to-face with an angry mother raccoon protecting her babies when you open your damper!
Birds and squirrels need a place to live too! Just not in your chimney!
If
your lower-end damper is damaged like the example
above, you may want to consider getting a top sealing
damper cap. A damper cap that SmartSweep installs will
not rust, provides screened protection at the top like
a chimney cap, and seal much better than those old
metal frame dampers, reducing or eliminating that cold
air coming from the flue! This means savings on your
energy bill!
The photo above shows one of our stainless steel, top-sealing damper caps, installed after a chimney top rebuild.