Flue Extender Fixes Common Smoky Fireplace Problems
When you have just one flue, reduce downdrafts by using the Flue Stretcher to raise your flue above nearby structures and roofs.
With two or more flues, use the Flue Stretcher to raise one flue above another. Keep smoke from one flue from being pulled into
your home by the other flue.
Copper Flue Stretchers by Gelco are an ingenious and strikingly attractive way to solve two fireplace problems that result in smoke being
drawn into your home through a fireplace. The Flue Stretchers effectively raise the height of your flue one or two feet, so they are helpful with some smoky fireplace
problems:
If smoke sometimes puffs into your room while your fireplace fire is burning, check outside your home. Are there structures (such as a taller part
of your own home, a nearby home, or trees) blocking a good flow of air by your flue? If so, would raising your flue's opening by a foot or two put it above those
structures? If that's the case, a Copper Flue Stretcher can be a low cost solution to your down-drafting problem.
If you have an upstairs and a downstairs fireplace with flues near each other, do you get smoke coming out of the downstairs fireplace
when the upstairs fireplace is burning? If so, adding a Copper Flue Stretcher to the flue of the upstairs fireplace raises the flue's opening by a foot or two. By
distancing with a Copper Flue Stretcher the upstairs flue's smoke from the downward pull of the downstairs flue, you can eliminate the smoke-out-one-flue-and-down-the-other
problem.
(NOTE: If neither of these conditions describes your flue or flues, but fireplace smoke is coming into your home, see our article about solving smoky fireplace problems for the best solution to your particular situation.)
As an added benefit, many people just like the looks of the Copper Flue Stretchers! These tall chimney cap flue extenders give an appearance similar to a clay chimney pot or a
European copper chimney pot, and extend the strong vertical line of your chimney, for a fraction of the price.
Copper Flue Stretchers are available with four base sizes that fit a range of flue dimensions (see chart below.) To add one foot of height to your
existing flue, select a 22" tall Flue Stretcher; the additional 10 inches is the chimney cap part of the Flue Stretcher. To add two feet to the height of your existing flue, select
a 34" tall Flue Stretcher; the additional 10 inches is the chimney cap part of the Flue Stretcher.
Copper Steel flue Stretchers, in addition to the sizes below, are also available in custom sizes. Please call us at 888-834-7375 ore-mail us for more information or a quote.
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Let Copper Flue Stretcher Chimney Caps cure your smoky fireplaces with style!
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Base Size and Total Height of Copper Flue Stretcher
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Copper Coating spray is your answer. The picture to the left shows the difference between a section of a copper chimney cap protected with 421 Clear Protective Coating
and the rest of the chimney cap that was unprotected for six months. The acrylic, water resistant base provides protection for your copper chimney cap without yellowing
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of aged copper, 421 Clear Protective
Copper Coating spray is your answer. The picture to the left shows the difference between a section of a copper chimney cap protected with 421 Clear Protective Coating
and the rest of the chimney cap that was unprotected for six months. The acrylic, water resistant base provides protection for your copper chimney cap without yellowing
or staining. 
