Article: Protect Your Home: Evaluate Your Existing Chimney Caps
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Protect Your Home: Evaluate Your Existing Chimney Caps
While you are cleaning leaves out of your home?s gutters, dealing with Christmas lights, or adjusting a satellite dish, don?t forget to check on your chimney caps while you are up on the roof. Chimney caps are those mesh-sided enclosures (most often made of stainless steel, copper, or galvanized steel) atop your chimney to prevent water, animals, bird droppings, and leaves from getting into your home. A once-a-year evaluation of your chimney caps? condition can be well worth your time for protecting your house. Here are four things you can easily assess on your chimney caps:
1. Are the chimney caps there?
If there have been high winds in your area, your chimney caps may have blown off. Properly secured chimney caps withstand most high winds, but exceptional winds can ...
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