Just like a top mount, this can be mounted via screws, masonry pins / anchors or tapcons, however, unlike a top mount cap, this is to be mounted from the side, through the vertical side portion of the chimney cap base which can be easily drilled. This is the ideal way to mount a chimney cap in most instances, as it covers the whole top of the chimney, protecting it against the weather. Side Mount: An outside mount chimney cap features a vertical mounting skirt covering part of the side of the chimney, usually around 3.5'. If a chase cover is not present, adhesive is the most common way to install a top mounted chimney cap because there is no drilling through the top of the chimney, which is normally not desirable as it is something that would need to be waterproofed. Typically, a top mounted cap will be either soldered to an existing chase cover when present, or attached via tapcons, screws, anchors or construction adhesive. It can also be used when a cap smaller than the chimney itself is desired, or simply if its visually preferred, when the vertical side skirt portion present on side mount caps is not a desired feature. Top Mount: A top mount chimney cap is ideally used on irregular shape chimneys, those with out of square corners or made out of stones for example. E - Although installation is considered simple and straight forward, we recommend that it be done by a professional.Please contact us prior to ordering if you have an specific request about this. D - Vertical reinforcements / divisions on the screen are added as deemed necessary by our craftsmen.Please do not order via this page if you have such requests as we will leave it up to our craftsmen to manufacture the roof as they best see fit. C - Requests for an specific amount of seams / width of panels can be accommodated via a custom request for quote.It is also common to order square caps and use shims for installation on out of square chimneys. B - Please do not place an order for a chimney cap out of square.These fields are used to calculate the price of your chimney cap. A - Please pick the approximate width and length (fields 3 and 4).I installed stainless expanded metal cages on all three of our chimneys, after that. Following that, I spent about $650 rebuilding the stove, half that cost being repair of damage that the squirrel did and the rest being 'might as well, while I have it apart' items. Couldn't really tolerate a soot-covered squirrel getting loose in the house, but didn't want to just leave him in there either.Ī rope down the chimney, followed by wrapping the stove in a blanket (such that the only light he might see would be coming down the chimney), coaxed him to find his own way up and out.

Was lucky enough to get the doors all slammed shut (that stove had two front doors and one top-load door) before the soot-soaked squirrel leaped into our living room, and then spent an evening debating what to do about him. Long story short, had to take the internals of the stove apart, to find a healthy squirrel back there.

Realized there was an animal (assumed it was a bird) caught back in the cat chamber of my old stove, trapped behind the bypass damper. Came home from work that day, opened the bypass damper, and heard a faint noise come from the stove as I reached to open the front loading doors.

On a rare warm day in January 2012, I let the stove go out.

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