Al Carrell: We live in the age of gimme caps. Everybody has a cap. And if your chimney doesn't have one, you're probably missing a bet. You know, the chimney cap does a lot of different things. First of all, it's going to prevent moisture, rain, from going right directly down the chimney. Secondly, it's going to prevent rodents, like mice and rats and squirrels and maybe even bigger rodents from going down the chimney and forming nests. It also prevents leaves from going down there. It also acts as a spark arrester because a lot of times when you're burning wood in your fireplace, the wood will burn and it'll carry some of those sparks up and they could land on your roof or somebody else's roof and cause a fire. So it does a lot of good things. Now, there's several different ways to go. You can go in and buy stock sizes at a home center or hardware store, and sometimes that's all you need. But usually, you need to do a better job. Right behind us over here there are two examples. Now the one closest to us is one that does cover everything. The one behind us is probably one that they bought. It's a stock size and it does some of those things we talked about, but it doesn't do a very important thing, and that is it doesn't cover the edge of the brick all the way around. If moisture falls on these bricks, it'll soak down in there and eventually it's going to cause the brick to slough off. And it can cause damage on the inside of the chimney also. So if you don't have a cap, go get one.
Episode 021 1995 - 96 Season
| Electrical Finish Out | Meter Reading | Chimney Caps | Plumbing Finish Out | Freezing Pipes | Aerator Cleaning | Ragging Off | Relative Assistance | LIST |
To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #021.