4800 Meadows Rd Suite 346 Lake Oswego OR 97035 – in person inquiry by appointment only
CHIMNEY TOP CLOSING DAMPER
Upgrade to Top Closing Damper. They are far better than your existing internal fireplace damper.
When your internal damper malfunctions, we offer a solution by installing top closing dampers, which come with a lifetime warranty from the manufacturer. Unlike traditional dampers, which are positioned in the “throat” of a fireplace and built directly into it, our top closing dampers represent a superior, modern alternative.
Traditional internal dampers are typically constructed metal and can warp or break being in such close proximity to the fire in the fireplace over time.
Upgrade to Top Closing Chimney Dampers: Energy Efficiency and Savings
Traditional interior dampers are notorious for their poor sealing capabilities, as they can warp being their location is too close to the fire. This design allows precious heat from your home to escape up your chimney flue, resulting in significant energy and heat loss during the colder months. It’s essentially like watching your hard-earned money vanish up the chimney.
Enter Top Closing Chimney Dampers—a game-changer in energy efficiency. The only versions of top dampers we install are the cast iron or steel versions that seats into the top of the flue tile and feature a rubber gasket that creates a tight, airtight seal every time you close it. This eliminates drafts and ensures that your money stays where it belongs—in your pocket, rather than escaping up the chimney. It also has a knuckle built into its opening and closing mechanism that is an ice breaker to break the ice or snow off of it during a snow or ice storm.
In addition to energy savings, cast iron top closing dampers also act as a barrier against rain and unwanted critters when closed. Positioned at the top of your chimney, they are equipped with a steel cable running through the flue and a convenient bulb and latch release system at the fireplace opening. Operating them is a breeze—simply pull the bulb down to open or release it to close.
Below are images of the top damper in the closed position on the left, and open position on the right.
You can easily operates it from inside your firebox. Below is an instructional video on how to use a top closing damper.
Customized Top Closing Damper Installation
To provide you with an accurate price, including installation, for a top closing damper on your chimney, our team needs to visit your location and measure inner dimension of the flue tile at the top opening of your chimney and also to see if you have a flue tile in the first place. If the flue tile is not there, or if you do have a flue tile but the inner dimensions are too small for the manufacturer’s installation size requirements for proper mounting of the top closing damper into it, we will write a bid for the installation a flue tile or the replacement of the correct inner dimension sized flue tile too.
Installing Caps over the Top Closing Dampers
People tend to forget to close the top closing damper during bird season and bird can still get down into the flue and nest in the smoke shelf if you do not close the top damper when not in use. Many customers request a chimney cap over installed one the top damper. The Standard chimney caps do not fit over the top dampers and prevent it from opening and closing properly. The company that makes the top closing dampers offer special sized stainless steel caps that do fit over the top damper and do allow it to open and close properly. If you are interested in getting a top damper chimney cap over your top damper, let me know during the call requesting a bid for the top damper.
We do not install Pop A Top Style Top Closing Dampers, only the cast iron or stainless steel version
Pop A Top style dampers do not install into the flue tile but are caulked on to the top of it. The caulking goes bad over time and they will fall off. Also they are made of thin sheet metal and three are gaps in the lid design that lets cold air in even when they are full closed. Also their opening mechanisms become stuck all the time, especially during snow and ice storms. They do not have knuckle mechanism built in to be able to open them from inside and the only way to do so is to go onto the roof and open them by hand manually. Because of all of these design flaws, wed o not sell or install those types of top dampers.
PLEASE NOTE, DAMPERS ARE NOT RETURNABLE. IF YOU SIGN THE BID TO APPROVE THE WORK WE WILL ORDER THE DAMPER TO BE INSTALLED BY US, YOU MUST COMMIT TO IT’S INSTALLATION AND METRO CHIMNEY INSTALLING IT AS IT HAS TO BE PREPAID FOR AND SHIPPED FROM THE EAST COAST AND IS NOT RETURNABLE.
WE ONLY INSTALL TOP DAMPERS. WE DO NOT SELL DAMPERS RETAIL.
THE TOP CLOSING DAMPERS ARE COVERED BY A MANUFACTURER’S LIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY. IT COVERS THE DAMPER SO LONG AS THE ORIGINAL PURCHASER RESIDES OR OWNS THE HOME IT IS INSTALLED ON ONLY. IT IS NOT TRANSFERABLE BETWEEN NEW HOMEOWNERS OR LOCATIONS.
IMPORTANT
I e-mail bids only to give you all the information you need to make an informed decision for the work. If you contact me for a bid, please give me a correct e-mail address. Also, I may need to contact you via phone prior to e-mailing you the bid if there is work that needs to be done in addition to what you originally called for due to structural, code, or safety reasons, or if I need any further information not provided during your first call to schedule me to come out to do the bid.