Chimney Caps & Cowls in Healesville

Spark arrestors and cowls for Healesville's forest setting

Every Healesville roof sits under or beside trees, and every heater beneath those roofs runs hard through a valley winter. That combination makes the flue terminal the most important small fitting on the house. It has to hold embers in, keep gum leaves and bark out, stop possums using the flue as a doorway, and still let a big bush-block heater draw properly on a still, cold morning when the air will not move.

The valley adds a fourth job. Wind coming off the ranges and eddying around tall trees pushes down flues that would draw perfectly on flat suburban ground, and the open fires in the cottages are the worst affected. A fireplace that fills the room with smoke whenever the weather turns is not broken; it has the wrong terminal for its setting, and that is a much smaller problem to solve.

We match the terminal to the flue, the appliance and the block. Spark arrestors are sized with enough mesh area to draw when clean and are cleaned at every sweep. Cowls for the cottage fires are chosen for downdraught, and tested with the fire lit. Bird and possum guards go on anything left open. It is all fitted from the roof and photographed so you know exactly what is up there.