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Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap Installation: The Dix Hills Owner’s Guide

If your Olympia Chimney cap is rusted through, missing, or letting rain pour down your flue, we stock compatible caps and install them throughout Dix Hills, typically for $240 to $520 including the cap, hardware, and labor. Most swaps take under an hour once we’re on the roof. The way you usually find out is simple: water stains on the ceiling near the chimney, a cap that’s not sitting level anymore, or you spotted the thing lying in the yard after a January nor’easter.

Call (631) 318-8656

We’re an independent, locally owned shop. We are not affiliated with Olympia Chimney, but we’ve installed and serviced their caps and chimney systems for years across Dix Hills and the Half Hollow Hills area. Wendell Pike runs the crew, and he is the one who will answer the phone.

Key takeaways:

• We keep common Olympia Chimney-compatible caps on the truck in Dix Hills, so most calls are one visit.
• You only pay for a new cap if yours is truly done. If it just needs resecuring or a new screen, we say so.
• Every cap install is covered by our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing.

Which Olympia Chimney Models This Applies To

Olympia Chimney builds caps for both masonry chimneys and factory-built systems. The most common one we see in Dix Hills is their standard stainless steel cap sized for round flues, usually 6, 7, or 8 inches inner diameter. But Olympia also makes caps for their older square and rectangular terra cotta flue systems, plus specialty caps for their air-cooled chimney pipe.

The gotcha: not every Olympia cap fits every Olympia chimney. Some of their prefab systems use a twist-lock cap that only mates with the matching pipe, not a universal band that clamps around the flue tile. If you can see a model number on the chimney pipe label, that saves us a trip. But if you can’t, we measure the flue and the outside diameter of the pipe when we’re on the roof. For most masonry chimneys in Dix Hills, an ASTM-rated stainless aftermarket cap from a brand like Gelco or Famco fits just as well as the Olympia original and costs less. We carry both and will show you the difference before we install anything.

New York weather is rough on caps. A cap that lasts twenty years in Arizona might look rough after twelve or fifteen winters of Long Island freeze-thaw. The stainless holds up. The hardware usually doesn’t.

Signs Your Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap Installation Is Failing

• Water streaks on the flue tiles or firebox after rain. The cap’s lid has rusted through or the screen has corroded so badly water gets in around the edge. If the firebox smells musty in July, that’s usually the cap, not the chimney.
• Draft issues that only happen during storms. A cap with a missing or mangled hood lets wind-driven rain push down into the flue. You’ll notice the fireplace gets harder to light and smoke hangs in the room when the weather turns.
• Animal noises from inside the chimney. A cap with a torn or missing screen is an open invitation for birds and squirrels in Dix Hills. Raccoons too, if you’ve got big gaps. We’ve pulled more nests out of uncapped flues than we care to count.
• The cap is visibly tilted, loose, or hanging by one bracket. High winds off the Long Island Sound work on cap brackets every season. Once the cap is loose, it can shift and damage the crown underneath it.
• That high-pitched whistle on a windy day. Some Olympia caps develop a whistle when the mesh or hood gets slightly bent. It’s annoying more than dangerous, but it means the cap isn’t doing its job cleanly anymore.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

In Dix Hills, a new Olympia Chimney-compatible cap with installation lands between $240 and $520. A basic stainless cap for a standard round flue often runs $240 to $340 installed. Larger masonry crowns, custom sizing, or an Olympia OEM cap for a factory-built system push it toward the upper end. We quote the price before we touch the truck, so the number you hear on the phone is the number on the invoice.

What you get for that: the cap itself, new stainless hardware, any minor crown sealing we need to do so water can’t just run underneath the new cap, and a quick visual check of the flue while we’re up there. If we spot an issue, we’ll tell you. If we don’t, we won’t invent one. Every cap installation is backed by our 90-Day Done Right Promise, and we show you photos of the work when we’re finished.

DIY or Call Us?

Here’s the honest answer: if your chimney is one story, has a gentle pitch, and the old cap simply needs a screw tightened, you can probably handle that with a ladder and a cordless drill. We will tell you that on the phone if that’s all it is.

The problem is most Dix Hills chimneys are not that simple. A two-story roof around here gets steep, the chimney crown is uneven, and the angle makes a bad fall worse. Ladder work on a frozen roof in February is not where you want to learn about your sense of balance. If the cap is rusted to the flue or the crown needs repair under it, that’s a job for somebody with the right tools and the insurance to match. Wendell and his crew do this all year, and they’ll clean up the old cap and debris before they come down. Call (631) 318-8656 and we’ll give you a straight answer and a free estimate.

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