So my chimney has/(had?) a small leak. Whenever it would rain, it would drip very slowly onto the top of the fireplace, (in the wall). At first I thought it was dripping onto the damper, but nay....
So onto the roof I go. The top of the chimney is about 2' x 4' with a 12" galvanized (I assume) pipe in the middle. ie the top of the chimney is flat, clad with aluminium. And lots of old caulking. I pushed down on it and saw that water had gotten past the caulking, and was squeezing back out.
So I pulled off the flashing around the perimeter of the chimney and let it dry out for about 5 days. There was some pretty squishy plywood in there! Fortunately it's been like 85 deg and sunny this past week! It dried out nicely...wood's still soft in places, but at least it's dry.
Armed with several tubes of new caulking, some roofing nails, and a little dish of water to moisten my smearing finger, I reinstalled the flashing and caulked the holy hell out of everything.
Now I wait to see next time it rains. Hopefully I fixed it....
So onto the roof I go. The top of the chimney is about 2' x 4' with a 12" galvanized (I assume) pipe in the middle. ie the top of the chimney is flat, clad with aluminium. And lots of old caulking. I pushed down on it and saw that water had gotten past the caulking, and was squeezing back out.
So I pulled off the flashing around the perimeter of the chimney and let it dry out for about 5 days. There was some pretty squishy plywood in there! Fortunately it's been like 85 deg and sunny this past week! It dried out nicely...wood's still soft in places, but at least it's dry.
Armed with several tubes of new caulking, some roofing nails, and a little dish of water to moisten my smearing finger, I reinstalled the flashing and caulked the holy hell out of everything.
Now I wait to see next time it rains. Hopefully I fixed it....
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