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Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown in Norwood: What to Know First

Top Hat Chimney installs, repairs, and replaces Olympia Chimney caps and crowns in Norwood, with most jobs completed in a single visit. Typical turnaround from phone call to finished work is two to four days, and every Olympia Chimney cap or crown job comes with our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing, plus an upfront price before a single tool comes off the truck. If your Olympia Chimney cap is rusted through, leaning, or missing and your crown is spalling, this page tells you exactly what you’re dealing with and what it costs to put right. Call (508) 687-5884 and Wendell himself will likely pick up.

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How Olympia Chimney Products Fail - and How We Fix Them

We’ve pulled enough Olympia Chimney caps and crowns off Norwood chimneys to know where they give out. Here’s what we see over and over, and what we do about it:

• Galvanized cap lids rust through at the weld points. Olympia’s economy galvanized caps, common on older Norwood Capes, tend to fail at the spot welds first. Water seeps in through those pinholes, runs down the flue, and the next thing you know the damper is stiff and there’s a rust stain on the smoke shelf. We replace them with stainless Olympia caps or a quality aftermarket stainless equivalent when it fits better. Either way, you won’t be back here in three years.
• Chase-mounted caps on Olympia pre-fab systems work loose in Norwood wind. Homes along the Norwood Memorial Airport corridor catch steady wind, and we see Olympia chase covers with missing screws or bent side skirts because somebody reused the old hardware. The cap starts flapping in a nor’easter and the homeowner thinks a bird is trapped in the chase. We re-secure with proper stainless fasteners and fresh silicone rated for metal-to-metal, then check the chase top for hidden water damage.
• Crown cracks from the clay flue liner expanding at a different rate than the concrete. This is not unique to Olympia, but it shows up most on the older Olympia masonry-crown jobs still common in Norwood’s colonials. The cast crown cracks in a ring around the tile, water gets under it, and freeze-thaw does the rest. If the crown is cracked less than a quarter inch, we seal it with a CrownCoat system. If it’s crumbling, we build a new one with a proper drip edge so water stops sitting against the brick.
• Olympia multi-flue caps on two-story chimneys arrive warped from the factory. We’ve opened enough Olympia boxes to know their extruded aluminum frames sometimes come bowed, which means the cap won’t seat flat. You get a wobble, and a wobble becomes a rattle. Rather than bend it back on-site and call it good, we’ll fit a flatter aftermarket unit sized to your actual flue spread. A warped cap is a return we send back, not a corner we cut.
• Custom cap installations without a screen let animals in. Olympia’s stock caps work fine for keeping rain out, but a single-flue cap with the wrong screen mesh in Norwood means squirrels or starlings get down the flue. We’ve pulled more nests out of uncapped terra cotta flues than we can count. Any cap we install, Olympia brand or not, gets a screen sized so the draft isn’t choked and the critters aren’t moving in.

One more thing we see: Olympia chimney caps installed by the homeowner who put the screws through the mounting brackets into nothing but flue tile. That cap is held on by hope. If the tile is chipped or the bracket won’t bite, we’ll bolt it into the crown itself with tapcons and masonry sealant so it stays put in a March storm.

Our Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown Process

Here’s how a typical Olympia Chimney cap or crown job goes when you call Top Hat Chimney in Norwood:

1. 1
   You call (508) 687-5884. A live person answers. We ask what the chimney looks like from the ground, what the issue is, and whether you’ve had any water in the firebox. Then we give you a price range over the phone, not a mystery to be revealed later.
2. 2
   Wendell or a crew member shows up, gets on the ladder, and takes pictures. You’ll see the cap, the crown, the flue tile, and the brick shoulders in plain photos. We don’t recommend a repair until we can see the actual condition, and we won’t tell you something’s broken if it isn’t.
3. 3
   We make a parts call. If your Olympia cap can be reused, we’ll tell you that and fix what’s actually wrong. If it’s rusted or warped, we talk through genuine Olympia replacements versus a quality aftermarket cap that may fit better or cost less. You decide; we install it right either way.
4. 4
   The repair or replacement goes in. Crown work means chipping out loose material, forming a proper drip edge, and letting the new crown cure before the cap goes back on. Cap work means level mounting, proper fastening, and a bead of high-temp silicone where chimney meets cap.
5. 5
   We test and show you the results. We check the draft, run a visual inspection down the flue, and show you the final photos. If something still looks off from the ground, we fix it before we leave, not after you call back.
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   You get the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If the cap leaks, the crown cracks again, or anything we touched fails inside 90 days, one call brings us back at no charge. That’s the whole promise, stamped on the invoice.

If it doesn’t need doing, we’ll tell you that too.

What Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown Costs in Norwood

Every chimney is different, so nobody worth their salt quotes a cap and crown job over the phone at a fixed price. But here’s what we can tell you from the jobs we’ve done in Norwood, as an independent Olympia Chimney service provider:

• Single-flue stainless cap replacement: $175 to $320 installed
• Standard multi-flue cap for a two-flue chimney: $340 to $580 installed
• Custom multi-flue cap, fabricated to fit an uneven flue spread: $600 to $950 installed
• Crown repair (cracks sealed, CrownCoat applied): $300 to $480 installed
• Crown rebuild (old crown removed, new poured crown with drip edge): $800 to $1,450 installed

What moves the price: how tall and steep the roof is, whether the flue tile needs replacing at the same time, and how much of the old crown is worth saving. We don’t charge a trip fee inside our service county, and we give $40 off any repair over $200. Seniors and veterans always get 10% off. Call (508) 687-5884 and we’ll give you a real number after we’ve seen the chimney, for free.

Why Norwood Homeowners Call Top Hat Chimney for Olympia Chimney Work

We’ve been working Norwood chimneys since 1999, and Wendell Pike has put his name on more of them than he can count. He learned the trade through Palomar College’s vocational program, then brought it east and never stopped. Homeowners who’ve had enough of national outfits with unmarked trucks and mystery pricing tend to find us, and they tend to stay. Every Olympia Chimney cap or crown job gets the same treatment: a real arrival window, a uniformed crew, a number on paper before work starts, and a 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. When a chimney needs something we don’t fabricate ourselves, we work with trusted manufacturers like DuraFlex, HeatShield, and Gelco so you get whatever the job actually calls for, not whatever one brand happens to sell. We’re local, owner-operated, and you’ll bump into us at the hardware store.

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