Rain Water Coming Down Chimneys

A cowling,although I've never heard of rain getting into the chimney in large quantities enough to enter the living room.

Most chimneys just have an open chimney pot. This chimney pot or flue liner is finished off with a cement mortar flaunching. Seems possibly that has failed, and the rainwater can ingress between the pot and the chimney brickwork. Get a local roofer to have a look.

-- WSB Hampshire Roofing

If the chimney isn't used, yes. If it is used, have a fire every so often to dry it out.

Perhaps large hailstones came down, and bounced out of the fireplace before melting?

On 18 May 2006 10:02:05 -0700 someone who may be snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com wrote this:-

It happens. However, people only tend to notice if the water makes it all the way down the chimney, bounces off the fireplace and onto the floor.

You can fit various designs of cowl to prevent this happening. None of them look attractive in my view.

Never had water outside the fireplace, the hail stone suggestion is a good suggestion. Ocassionally have had rain running down the flue after heavy rain, fitted a cowl as I only used the stove occasionally and was concerned about damp. There is a selection here.

Jim A

In article , Jim Alexander writes

I'd agree that it's not usually a problem but if you're a happy roof walker then a cheap cap will help, here's another example:

or (cheapest) here:

pmsl, its a cowl sir not a femal model.

Oh, I have.

If it rains a LOT you can get a bit dribbling into the fireplace

Great, I reckon Andrews theory is a good one, the water was in real small puddles just like a hail stone had melted, rather than splashes. A few spots even made it out of the fireplace about 9 ft!!!! I'll look into the cowl. Cheers all

Richard

You'll need a long ladder ;-)

John

This is a DIY group

Ahhh

MBQ

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