On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 06:03:23 -0400,
(Shirley Thebaglady) wrote:

Check around your chimney, if you have a fireplace.

Good point. I moved in in May, and on Thanksgiving I awoke to see my
bedroom ceiling dripping There was a conical enclosure around the
fireplace chimney and the furnace chimney (both round galvanized
steel?) The previous owner had ttried to fix the leak by putting GE
silicone caulk in the cone, but it's impossible to do this from the
inside. When I was able to get to the roof, ulike all the other
chimneys in my set of townhouses, mine didn't have a collar, a skirt,
around the pipe above the cone.

So I caulked a lot with black roof caulking, and it was fine for about
20 years. It was still fine when I got a new roof, but I went looking
for a collar. No one seems to use 12 inch chimney anymore, so I had
to use a universal collar. AFAICT, there was only one supply house in
all of Baltimore that sold them, and before I found that one, I found
a fireplace store in Westminster (20 miles out of Baltimore) that had
them. Only 10 dollars, but required a lot of careful trimming with
tin snips.

When I put it on the next day, I saw that all the chimneys used this
universal collar. That got a lot of black caulk too, and I recaulked
the original place, so now I have two and a half layers of protection
against chimney leaks.

We had to have our chimney sealed on the outside as we had a leak. We
had a roofing man come and he did the sealing and checked all over our
roof too.

He sprayed it it with some kind of brick sealer. It did not cost very
much- $100.

Fair enough. You didn't risk falling off the roof.

shirley


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