Chimney Cap & Chase Cover Installation in West Hartford

A quality cap keeps rain, animals, and debris out of your flue and stops downdrafts and sparks. We install stainless steel and custom bluestone chimney tops, whole-top chase covers, and flue screening sized to your chimney.

The Cheapest Chimney Repair You’ll Ever Buy

For $250–$500, a proper chimney cap prevents thousands of dollars in future damage. It’s the highest-ROI chimney upgrade there is, and yet it’s the item most homeowners forget about — until they hear scratching in the flue or find water in the firebox.

What a Chimney Cap Actually Does

A chimney cap sits at the top of your flue and does four important jobs:

1. Blocks rain and snow from falling directly into the flue and rotting the damper
2. Keeps out animals — birds, squirrels, raccoons that nest, block draft, and create odor problems
3. Arrests sparks — the mesh screening stops burning embers from reaching your roof
4. Reduces downdrafts — the design deflects wind that would otherwise blow smoke back into the room

Cap vs. Chase Cover vs. Chimney Top

Terminology matters when you’re ordering:

• Chimney cap — covers a single flue on a masonry chimney
• Chase cover — big rectangular sheet-metal cover for the whole top of a framed (prefab) chimney chase
• Chimney top / decorative cap — bluestone, cast concrete, or custom masonry pieces used on historic and estate homes
• Multi-flue cap — one large cap covering two or more flues on the same chimney

See the differences in our caps vs chase covers guide.

What We Install

• 304 or 316 stainless steel caps — our standard, backed by lifetime warranties from top manufacturers
• Copper caps — for historic and estate homes where copper matches other trim
• Custom multi-flue caps — fabricated to fit oversized or shared-flue chimneys
• Full chase covers — stainless replacement for rusted-out chase tops on prefab chimneys
• Bluestone and custom masonry chimney tops — decorative pieces for high-end homes
• Flue screening — 3/4-inch mesh that keeps out birds and small animals

When to Replace Your Cap

• Visible rust or corrosion on the cap or mesh
• Cap is loose or missing (blown off in a storm)
• You hear scratching, chirping, or animal noise in the flue
• Rain shows up in the firebox after a storm
• Your damper is rusting from top-down water
• You never had a cap in the first place