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High Wind Chimney Caps – The Best Solution for Windy Conditions
If you live in an area prone to strong winds, your chimney may suffer from backdrafts, leading to poor fireplace performance, smoke entering your home, and even potential safety hazards. A high wind chimney cap is specifically designed to counteract the effects of wind, ensuring proper ventilation while preventing downdrafts.
Why Choose a High Wind Chimney Cap?
- Stops Wind-Driven Downdrafts – A windproof chimney cap redirects airflow, preventing sudden bursts of air from pushing smoke and gases back into your home.
- Enhances Chimney Draft – By stabilizing airflow, these caps ensure that your fireplace or stove burns efficiently, reducing excess smoke and improving indoor air quality.
- Durable Stainless Steel Construction – Made from premium materials, these chimney caps resist rust, corrosion, and extreme weather conditions, making them ideal for long-term use.
- Protects Against Rain & Debris – Keeps out rainwater, snow, and unwanted debris that can clog your chimney and reduce its effectiveness.
- Animal & Bird Prevention – Acts as a barrier to nesting birds, squirrels, and other animals that may try to enter your chimney.
What Makes This the Best Chimney Cap for Wind?
Not all chimney caps are built the same. The best chimney cap for wind features a unique wind-directional design that automatically adjusts based on wind patterns. This self-aligning cap ensures that wind is diverted away from the flue opening, preventing backdrafts and improving draft performance. Whether you use a wood-burning stove, fireplace, or furnace, a high-quality windproof chimney cap is essential for maintaining proper ventilation.
How a Wind Proof Chimney Cap Works
A windproof chimney cap operates by utilizing a rotating design that aligns with the wind’s movement. As the wind shifts, the cap pivots to block external airflow from entering the chimney while allowing smoke and gases to escape freely. This mechanism prevents negative pressure build-up, ensuring that your chimney functions efficiently regardless of weather conditions.
Choosing the Right High Wind Chimney Cap
- Measure Your Chimney Flue – Our wind-resistant caps fit most standard chimney sizes and can be custom-made for specific dimensions.
- Consider Your Location – If you live in an area with frequent high winds, investing in a windproof cap ensures long-term chimney performance.
- Opt for Stainless Steel – Stainless steel construction guarantees durability, rust resistance, and longevity in harsh weather conditions.
Wind-resistant chimney caps (sometimes referred to as high-wind chimney caps) are designed for protection from high wind-induced downdrafts, keeping them to a minimum by eliminating any path for outside air to flow down the chimney.
Our round high-wind chimney caps are designed specifically for both double-wall and triple-wall air-insulated (or air-cooled) metal chimneys. This kind of chimney features either two or three metal walls with open space between each, a design that promotes the cooling of the flue using air.
Unlike chimney caps that bolt directly to the flue or chimney crown, these round high-wind chimney caps slip right inside the flue’s opening (the interior pipe). To ensure a proper fit, measure the inside diameter of both the center pipe and the outside pipe.
A round high-wind chimney cap is right for your home if you live in an area that experiences severe winds and have a metal air-cooled chimney. To determine if you have an air-cooled chimney, remove your existing chimney cap (if you have one) and check the pipe. Air-cooled chimneys have either double-wall or triple-wall pipes, so you should see two or three layers of pipe.
Alternatively, you can check your pipe by tapping its outside wall with an object such as a screwdriver. The pipe layers in double-wall and triple-wall pipes will vibrate, so if you hear vibrations, you know you have an air-cooled chimney.
These round high-wind chimney caps can only be used for air-cooled metal chimneys.
Measure the exact outside dimensions of your flue tile sticking up above the crown of your chimney.
Black Chimney Caps
$229.00 – $349.00
- High Quality – Chimney cap is powder-coated black for this nice sleek look. Made of high-quality steel for durability and extended rust protection.
- Protection – These chimney caps will keep the rain from coming down inside your chimney. Rain is what leads to costly chimney repair. The caps design with the screen will keep out birds, debris, and other animals from nesting inside your chimney
- Installation – Easy installation with bolts that will tighten around your terracotta flue tile
- Safety – Cap is designed as a spark arrestor chimney cap that will help prevent large embers and sparks from landing on your roof
- USA Made – Support the United States business. Don’t buy Chinese-made caps that are inferior!
