I need a chimney cap fit for a King.

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ohlongarm

ohlongarm

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Mar 18, 2011
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Can someone help or advise me ,a boring subject but nontheless I"m curious.My installer while doing a great job, to me skimped on my chimney cap. It looks too small for this unit. Is there a cap any seasoned BKBURNERS,or BURNERS could recommend it's more on an aesthetic thing at this point than functional.I would like something that looks and functions well if there is such an animal. Is it true that a larger cap draws better,what about air cooled VS non air cooled need direction in this matter you guys steered me right on the stove,the MM,the IR please help me find a cap.
 
Get one of those turbines that spin around from the wind!

Seriously though..mines kinda small and ugly...I want one big and ugly like my stove! lol
 
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Thanks for the replies I like the looks of those big screened caps,lots of air flow. I just have to see if they'll fit on my setup.
 
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What the heck is that !!????....never seen anything like that before
 
Speaking of Chimney Caps....just got a 9x13 to cover the Flue for the heating system...haven't installed it yet. I thought that someone mentioned that if the Flues (Stove & Furnace), are side by side in the same Chimney, one should be higher than the other to avoid any possible drafting into the other which could lead to Carbonmonoxide enter the home....just don't remember which one should be the highest....I could be wrong.
 
greenteam said:
Beer Belly said:
Speaking of Chimney Caps....just got a 9x13 to cover the Flue for the heating system...haven't installed it yet. I thought that someone mentioned that if the Flues (Stove & Furnace), are side by side in the same Chimney, one should be higher than the other to avoid any possible drafting into the other which could lead to Carbonmonoxide enter the home....just don't remember which one should be the highest....I could be wrong.
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this is a problem not said much about having a common chimney cap can do as your fear its one of those temperature inversions nights the smoke of the wood stove gets caught under the roof of the common cap the stove is doing its job shutting down the furnace. cold air wants to descend into that cool flue taking with it the smoke trapped under the cap and your basement fills up with smoke, coming in threw the burner flue
The correct way to do it, is to extend your flue beyond and above that common cap. All too often lazy installers see you have a cap and d terminate it under it . Most liners kits include a cap which has been tested and becomes part of the listing, by not using that cap the listing is voided. all it takes is a wiz wheel to cut a 6" hole in the common cap top and correctly extend past it terminating it with the listed cap to afford the 9" separation required
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I just installed my cap for the Furnace.....it sits lower than the Woodstove Cap....sound correct ???...Thanks
 
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