The cap works and is keeping water off of the...The cap works and is keeping water off of the crown of our chimney.
Two minor issues I have with the cap design:
1) The sides slide together, but do not lock, which makes putting it together a pain. On a flat surface it stays together, but the second you attempt to put it down on a curved surface like the crown of a chimney, it comes apart and the sides detach from one another. I had to assemble it on a level surface, drill and tap the side panels so that I could bolt them together prior to taking the cap to the chimney to attach to the crown.
2) The brackets on this cap are fixed on the outside of the cap, and are not adjustable. They are not on a hinge like other caps so that they can be screwed in on the inside or the outside of the cap. I had to bend the hinges to the inside so that the cap could be installed on our chimney. Granted, I ordered a cap that was nearly the exact size of our chimney, and had I gone with a smaller size, I wouldn’t have had this problem. There just wasn’t another size cap that was close to what we needed. Overall, very happy with the product other than having to do a bit of extra work to get it to fit, it is definitely the budget friendly option. It is sturdy metal, and should last a long time.
by RB