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How to Install Your Chimney Cap: An Overview
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You're convinced. You really do need aHow to Install Chimney Caps chimney cap to keep the rain from damaging your chimney flue and to keep squirrels, raccoons, and bats from taking up residence. You have carefully measured your flue(s) and ordered the correct chimney cap. While you wait for it to arrive, give a few minutes thought to its installation. Here's how:

First, if your chimney cap comes with directions from its manufacturer, follow them to the letter rather than use the general procedures below.

Note that chimney caps are made of sheet metal and may have sharp edges, so use protective gloves when you handle and install your chimney cap.

For Chimney Cap Installation Instructions,
click on the type of chimney cap you will be installing.

Slip the chimney cap over the flue, covering at least one inch of the flue, and firmly tighten the screws on all sides of the cap.
Just slip a friction fit chimney cap down into a round clay flue, applying a silicon sealer if you prefer.
To install an inside mount chimney cap into a metal flue, just push the chimney cap firmly into the flue.

A Single Flue Chimney Cap that Fits Over a Round, Square or Rectangular Flue

An Inside Mount
Chimney Cap for a
 Round, Clay Flue

An Inside Mount
Chimney Cap for a
Round, Metal Flue

Top Mount Chimney Caps can be attached with Tapcon  Masonry Fasteners or with Adhesive.

An Outside Mount Chimney Cap attaches to the vertical sides of the chimney.

A Chimney Cap that Attaches
to the Top of the Chimney

An Outside Mount Chimney Cap
that Attaches to the
Vertical Sides of the Chimney

 

 

 

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Checking Your Chimney Caps: How to Assess Their Condition
 

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Chimney Crown Leaks Damage Your Home:
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Chimnney Problems Articles

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Decorating Your Fireplace Mantel
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Beyond Red and Green: Color Selection Tips for
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Decorating Your Fireplace for New Year's Eve and Day
 

Five New Year's Resolutions for Your Fireplace and Chimney
 

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Decorating Your Fireplace for Springtime and Easter

 

 

 

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