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A Brunswick terrace pot with nothing on top is a rain gauge and a nesting box. FreshDuct fits bird guards, rain caps and anti-downdraught cowls to narrow cottage and terrace flues, from the roof, and photographs the result.
Chimney pot open to the sky in Brunswick? A cap and guard costs less than one wet, nest-blocked winter.
Along a Brunswick rooftop, many of the chimney pots are open. Some serve fireplaces that have not been lit in decades; others are back in use after a renovation and still have nothing on top. Either way the flue is taking rain, and in a narrow unlined flue that water runs down the brick and into the mortar rather than evaporating. Damp smell in a front room, a stain on the chimney breast, mortar dust on the hearth: the cause is often a missing cap.
The pot itself sets what can go on it. Victorian terracotta pots are narrow and often chipped at the rim, so a cap has to be sized to the actual pot rather than a nominal flue size, and fixed in a way that does not split old clay. Where a pot is beyond saving we say so and replace it with one that suits the stack before fitting the cap.
Brunswick’s tight streets and two-storey neighbours also produce downdraught. A fireplace that smokes when the wind is from a particular direction is usually being pushed back by turbulence off the taller roof next door, and an anti-downdraught cowl on the right pot generally sorts it. We fit it, then light a test to confirm the draw rather than assume.
Bird guards, rain caps and anti-downdraught cowls sized to narrow terrace and cottage pots, fitted from the roof and photographed.
Disused Brunswick flues are prime nesting sites. A bird guard on the pot stops the nest before it starts, and if there is already one in there we clear it before the guard goes on so the flue is not capped with a blockage inside.
Victorian pots are narrow and the rims are often chipped. We measure the actual pot, choose a cap that clamps or straps without splitting the clay, and replace a cracked pot rather than force a cap onto it.
A taller neighbouring roof rolls wind down onto a lower terrace pot. An anti-downdraught cowl turns that into draw. We fit it and test with a small fire so the fix is confirmed before we leave the roof.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Every Brunswick pot is measured on the roof before a cap is chosen. A guard for a dormant flue, a rain cap for one back in use, or a cowl for one that smokes in a north wind: each is a different fitting on the same pot.
The cap is fixed and sealed from the roof and photographed in place, so you can see it is square without climbing a ladder. If we are already up for a sweep, the pot is measured that visit and the cap quoted on the spot.
Documented end to end — every job, every suburb.
Flue size, terminal type and roof access checked.
The right cap or cowl for the appliance and the problem.
Firm price before any work.
Fixed and sealed from the roof, safely.
Draw checked with the cap on.
A photo of the finished cap from the roof.
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Yes, for the flue rather than the fire. An open pot lets rain down the brick and birds into the flue, which shows up as damp and smell in the room below. A capped and guarded pot keeps the flue dry and empty whether or not you ever light it.
Yes. A pot split by frost or an old cap forced onto it will not hold a new fixing, so we lift it off, bed a matching pot in fresh flaunching and fit the cap to that. It is done from the roof in one visit and photographed, and the stack keeps its row of pots from the street.
An open flue lets rain, leaves and birds straight in. A cap keeps the flue dry, keeps nests out and, on a wood heater, a spark arrestor stops embers leaving the flue.
Usually a downdraught — wind pushing back down the flue. An anti-downdraught cowl is the normal fix; we confirm the draw with a test before and after.
Yes. If we are on the roof for a sweep and the flue needs a cap, we can quote it on the spot and fit it the same visit where we have the right size.
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