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AfterOlympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown in Brentwood: What to Know First
We repair and replace Olympia Chimney caps and crowns in Brentwood as an independent service provider, with most jobs completed in a single visit. A standard cap replacement on an Olympia Chimney flue typically runs $240-$480 installed, and crown work usually lands between $350 and $900 depending on damage and flue count. The honest truth is that some jobs don’t need doing yet, and we’ll tell you that before we take a dollar. If you own an Olympia Chimney system in Brentwood and want a straight answer, call (934) 935-3847. This page is for homeowners who want to understand what’s actually wrong up there before anyone touches it.
How Olympia Chimney Products Fail - and How We Fix Them
Olympia Chimney builds solid products, and we install plenty of them. But after two decades on Brentwood rooftops, we know exactly where they wear and when they don’t. Here are the failure patterns we see on jobs near Brentwood State Park and across town.
- Olympia 316L liner collar caps with failed mesh screens. The mesh on Olympia’s stock caps corrodes faster than the cap body itself, especially within a mile of the coast where salt air sits on metal. Once the mesh goes, birds and squirrels go in. We replace the mesh with stainless hex screen and keep the original cap body if it’s sound. Saves you $150 or more over a full cap replacement.
- Masonry crowns over Olympia flue tiles showing hairline cracks around the tile base. This is the Brentwood constant: freeze-thaw. Water settles in the seam where the clay flue meets the crown, freezes, expands, and cracks the crown outward. We see it on Olympia terra-cotta flue systems more than any other because of how tight the factory clearance sits. The fix is a proper crown seal with a flexible waterproofer, not a smear of hardware-store caulk that fails by spring.
- Olympia anchor-plate caps loosening over time. These caps are built with a flange that bolts to the crown. The anchors work fine until the crown starts spalling, then the bolts have nothing to bite. We’ve fixed more stuck-open dampers from loose anchor plates than from any single Olympia component. The fix? We can reseat the plate, but only after repairing or resetting the crown surface. New bolts on soft crown material are a waste of your money.
- Multi-flue Olympia caps collecting water between stacked flues. On older Brentwood colonials with two flues side by side, the gap between clay liners collects water that the cap doesn’t cover. The real fix isn’t a bigger cap; it’s a custom-width cap with a drip edge that spans both flues. Olympia’s stock multi-flue caps are fine, but on tight flue spacing they don’t leave enough overhang, and water runs down the outside of the liner. We order our multi-flue caps cut to measurement.
- Prefab chimney caps with factory-supplied screens separating from the frame. Some Olympia air-cooled chimney caps shipped with press-fit screens, not welded. After five or six Brentwood summers, the metal expands and contracts enough that the screen pops loose. We see this on the older air-cooled chimney models and it’s the most common call where the homeowner thinks there’s a “chimney cap problem” when it’s really just the screen. If the cap frame is sound, we weld the screen back. If it’s warped, we replace it.
Our Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown Process
Here’s what happens when you call Top Hat Chimney about an Olympia Chimney cap or crown in Brentwood:
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You call (934) 935-3847. A live person answers. It might be Wendell. You describe what you’re seeing, and we quote a phone price before anyone drives out.
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We arrive with a real window. Background-checked, uniformed, and we call if we’re running late. No “sometime between 8 and 6.”
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We get on the roof and look. We don’t quote from the ground unless we can’t safely get up there that day, and then we tell you that and schedule the ladder work.
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We show you the problem. Camera photos or footage of the crown, the cap, and the flue. You see what we see, and we’ll tell you if it can wait.
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We do the work. That might be a new Olympia cap, a custom multi-flue cap, crown repair with flexible sealant, or a full crown recast. We tell you the number before a tool comes off the truck and we don’t change it at the door.
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We test and guarantee. We verify water runoff, cap seating, and flue draw. Every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something’s not right, call and we come back. No charge.
What Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown Costs in Brentwood
Here’s the honest math, based on what we’ve charged in Brentwood over the past few years.
- Olympia cap mesh replacement: $95-$180 if the cap body is reusable
- Standard single-flue Olympia cap replacement: $240-$420 installed
- Custom multi-flue cap cut to size: $380-$650 installed
- Olympia anchor plate reseat: $180-$320, assuming the crown surface is sound
- Crown coat and waterproof (standard flue count): $350-$650
- Full crown recast over Olympia flue(s): $600-$950
The price moves based on roof pitch, flue count, crown condition, and whether we’re reusing or replacing the Olympia cap body. We also offer $40 off any repair over $200 and a free second opinion on any competitor’s written estimate. Call (934) 935-3847 for an exact number before we touch anything.
Why Brentwood Homeowners Call Top Hat Chimney for Olympia Chimney Work
We’ve been working on roofs in Brentwood since 1999, and we’re not a franchise that rotated in last spring. Wendell Pike puts his name on every job, and you’ll run into him again at the store on Saturday. That changes how we do the work. We install and service Olympia Chimney products alongside DuraFlex liners, HeatShield resurfacing, and Gelco caps, so we’re not married to one brand when a better fix exists. If your Olympia cap only needs a $120 mesh replacement, that’s what we quote. We won’t sell you a $400 cap because it’s easier for us. The 90-Day Done Right Promise is stamped on every job, and a live person answers our phone around the clock. Ask anyone on your street. Some of them already know.
FAQs
No. As an independent Olympia Chimney service provider, we’re not authorized by Olympia, so we can’t make warranty claims on their behalf. But servicing your cap doesn’t void your Olympia warranty on the chimney itself, and we use components that meet or exceed the original spec. If your cap is still under factory warranty, we’ll tell you to file the claim first and we’ll do the install if Olympia sends the parts.
Both. For caps that are still under warranty or still in production, we order direct. For older Olympia air-cooled chimney models where the OEM cap is discontinued or backordered for months, we use quality aftermarket caps cut to the same dimensions. We’ll show you exactly what we’re ordering and why before we spend your money. Call (934) 935-3847 and we’ll walk you through it.
Usually within one to three business days, depending on the season. Chimney cap work on a sound roof with easy ladder access is a single-visit job. If we need a custom cap fabricated for a multi-flue or unusual flue spacing, that adds three to five business days. We’ll tell you the timeline on the phone before you commit to anything.
Depends on the cap body. If the metal is intact and the screen is the only failure, we repair it on the spot and you keep a cap that’s already broken-in to your flue. If the frame is warped, the anchor points are pulled, or the cap has rusted through, replacement is cheaper than a patch that fails in a year. We show you the damage on camera before we recommend one or the other. If it doesn’t need doing, we’ll tell you that too.
Water gets in, and water is the thing that turns a $200 cap repair into a $2,000 crown rebuild. Specifically, water that sits on a cracked crown freezes and expands through the winter, and in Brentwood that cycle runs from November to March. The flue tile spalls, the masonry crown crumbles, and water seeps into the chimney chase. You don’t see it until the damper rusts shut or the ceiling stains around the chase. Once a year, burn or no burn. Chimneys break in the off-season too.
Contact
If you’ve got an Olympia Chimney cap or crown question in Brentwood, call (934) 935-3847. A live person answers, we’ll give you a straight number, and if the job doesn’t need doing, Wendell will tell you that. Free estimates, no trip charge inside the county, and $40 off any repair over $200. Seniors and veterans always save 10%. If it needs doing, we’ll do it right. If it doesn’t, I’ll tell you that too.
Written by Wendell Pike, Owner, Top Hat Chimney at Top Hat Chimney, serving Brentwood and nearby areas.