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[loneryder]

With all this rain headed our way, how many have caps on their chiminey pipes.  Around here, most are uncapped including mine.  Now it seems like a good idea to have them capped with all this rain.

[Scott7m]

I always install rain caps, kinda silly if you ask me to not have one. No goofy looking buckets in the summer and during times of heavy precipitation in the winter u can still get some water down the pipe when it's idling. 

Just don't get a rain cap that has a fine mesh spark arrestor, if it does, cut it out and you'll be fine

[loneryder]

I always install rain caps, kinda silly if you ask me to not have one. No goofy looking buckets in the summer and during times of heavy precipitation in the winter u can still get some water down the pipe when it's idling. 

Just don't get a rain cap that has a fine mesh spark arrestor, if it does, cut it out and you'll be fine

Thanks..I agree..it does seem like a good idea.  BTW Ashland is my home town.  Old friend used to own the lake marina..smy still.

[Scott7m]

Small world lol

[6pacmac]

I have a cap. It's got a screen on it also, which is good when i burn so newspaper or cardboard.   Got it from Tractor Supply.

[willieG]

I have a cap. It's got a screen on it also, which is good when i burn so newspaper or cardboard.   Got it from Tractor Supply.

keep an eye on your cap 6pac, they have a tendancy to plug the screen with creosete.
i have seen one plug so bad that the OWB would not burn! By the time it was removed it was completely demolished

[6pacmac]

I have a cap. It's got a screen on it also, which is good when i burn so newspaper or cardboard.   Got it from Tractor Supply.

keep an eye on your cap 6pac, they have a tendancy to plug the screen with creosete.
i have seen one plug so bad that the OWB would not burn! By the time it was removed it was completely demolished

   :thumbup:Your so right, they do build up the creosote. I clean my about 2x's per season.

[Scott7m]

When I use spark arrestors I round up some card board boxes and a couple times a year stuff the firebox full, open the bottom door and let her roar, it makes the chimney far cleaner than any brush lol.

[MattyNH]

No cap here..Rain has never affected me.. nor anyone else that has a cap less owb that i personally know...Heck my house chimney has no cap..Sheet rock bucket works perfect during off season for me.

[Scott7m]

Many folks don't like the idea of a bucket dangling on there chimney, it's kind of an eye sore.

[jerkash]

I'm a "Redneck Country Boy" and a bucket over my pipe with a block on top of it fits right in at my house!!  hahaha

[Scott7m]

lol true

But as you can imagine if you tell some customers "oh just hang a bucket on it" there like "are you nuts"!

It just don't seem to professional to some to tell em to hang a bucket on it lol

[Neal]

a bucket works just fine for me.

[MattyNH]

lol true

But as you can imagine if you tell some customers "oh just hang a bucket on it" there like "are you nuts"!

It just don't seem to professional to some to tell em to hang a bucket on it lol

Your looking at it as a business prospective and i get that..But it should be a option. Im sure that cap isn't cheap..Why not give them the option..You say its a eye sore.. Not like the owb is on the front lawn with flowers around it....Looks like the bucket wins..

[Scott7m]

Yea, I've actually had customers set there stoves on pads lined with brick and try to incorporate it into the landscape, not all do this.  It sure looks nice when they do though.  I love when a customer takes pride in there job, it inspires me to work harder to make folks feels the same and take pride in there units, they take better care of them when they do

A stainless steel rain cap is around 45 bucks usually