What is a Chimney Cap?

A Chimney Cap is a covering for a chimney that shelters the opening from rain, snow, animals, and birds, while permitting smoke and gasses to escape. Chimney caps can be manufactured from steel, stainless steel, copper, and aluminum. The most popular sheet metal used to manufacture chimney caps are stainless steel and black painted steel, while almost any type of metal can be used.

Copper chimney caps can add some rustic style to almost any structure while a stainless steel chimney cap is less susceptible to rust from the effects of rain, wind and smoke. Chimney caps feature side screening or venting to allow gasses to escape while keeping birds and small animals out of the chimney.

Chimney caps are normally mounted onto the chimney with screws at the base tight against the flue tile. Calebs can customize your chimney cap in the event you need to mount from the inside or at an angle. We not only manufacture, but our professional roofers install chimney caps and any roofing accessories you require.

There are many types of standard chimney caps available, which we can fabricate in our sheet metal shop, or we can customize a chimney cap to your specifications. With different mounting styles and lid types available we can fabricate a chimney cap for you. Call us today at (303) 971-0256 to find out more!