[TheForge] Forge Flue Rain Cap

[Jerry Frost]

I understand how this works.

Does the rain hitting the inside of the oversized pipe rinse creosote, soot
and other crap down the outside of the main stack and then onto the roof?

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forge Flue Rain Cap


> It was Tony's idea that rain seldom falls exactly straight down so a
> straight up, open sleeve over the main stack  would cause rain to hit
> the inside of the top pipe and run out the overlapping bottom. I'd
> speculated that if one put a slight dogleg in the middle of the top pipe
> it would take care of vertical rain too.......Pete F
>
> Mark Williams wrote:
>