Masonry Chimney, What Do you see.

[Milton Tow]

6th picture.

[Bob Elliott]

[Gary D. Rowden]

A rusty tape measure and a low spot on chimney cap

[Marcel R. Cyr]

A mortar wash chimney cap and a tape I can't read and no sealant around the flue for expansion and water intrusion.
This cap will start falling apart in a few years.
Bob has a nice graphic.
Bob, can I save that one?

[Bob Elliott]

Originally Posted by mcyr

A mortar wash chimney cap and a tape I can't read and no sealant around the flue for expansion and water intrusion.
This cap will start falling apart in a few years.
Bob has a nice graphic.
Bob, can I save that one?

Sure it is fine with me (may have gotten it here) but please help me out on my recent post.
Nobody has replied as of yet and I am leaving but will check from my phone.

http://www.nachi.org/forum/f23/garag...romised-65872/

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Originally Posted by belliott

Sure it is fine with me (may have gotten it here) but please help me out on my recent post.
Nobody has replied as of yet and I am leaving but will check from my phone.

http://www.nachi.org/forum/f23/garag...romised-65872/

Sorry Bob, never seen anything like it.

[KEVIN WOOD]

This is generally installed to separate apartment floors. I have never seen it either for this application. I would think that in this application you would need a signed off engineers plan. That being said if it is damaged it no longer has the support for the garage to have a vehicle in it.

[Marcel Gratton]

Originally Posted by belliott

Sure it is fine with me (may have gotten it here) but please help me out on my recent post.
Nobody has replied as of yet and I am leaving but will check from my phone.

http://www.nachi.org/forum/f23/garag...romised-65872/

Pics are from Carson Dunlop.

I've attached one of a garage floor not like yours though, and it reads to be very careful.

Cars are very heavy, an SUV can weight 3-4 Tons...

[An HI]

Originally Posted by belliott

Attachment 49502

The element labeled "capillary break" is actually known as a "drip" or "drip check".

[An HI]

Originally Posted by mcyr

Amortar wash chimney cap and a tape I can't read and no sealant around the flue for expansion and water intrusion.
This cap will start falling apart in a few years.
Bob has a nice graphic.
Bob, can I save that one?

That appears to be a poured-in-place concrete chimney cap but it is poorly designed and finished. There is no slope on its top to shed water; not at least 2 inches overhang of the brick to shed water; probably no drip check on the too small overhang; does not appear to have "bondbreaker" between flue and poured-in-place cap so that the flue can expand (when hot) independently of the supporting brick/cap structure, and as mentioned, no caulking at flue to preventy water entry.

[KEVIN WOOD]

Not to stir up trouble but can you tell me where this comes from. In all info on HI I have never found it called a "Drip Check" or "Drip" Is this a masonry term?

[An HI]

Originally Posted by kwood

Not to stir up trouble but can you tell me where this comes from. In all info on HI I have never found it called a "Drip Check" or "Drip" Is this a masonry term?

CSA standard A405- Design and construction of masonry chimneys and fireplaces (figure 2- chimney cap construction details)and Wett manual, page 14 of Masonry chimney requirements

[An HI]

Originally Posted by kwood

Not to stir up trouble but can you tell me where this comes from. In all info on HI I have never found it called a "Drip Check" or "Drip" Is this a masonry term?

http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/pub/bul...Rainscreen.pdf

There is some materials here and many on the web about what a capillary break is and what materials can be used.

[An HI]

Originally Posted by kwood

Not to stir up trouble but can you tell me where this comes from. In all info on HI I have never found it called a "Drip Check" or "Drip" Is this a masonry term?

http://www.masonryworktools.com/maso...struction.html

[An HI]

Originally Posted by kwood

Not to stir up trouble but can you tell me where this comes from. In all info on HI I have never found it called a "Drip Check" or "Drip" Is this a masonry term?

http://www.blackmagik.ca/5cs.html

Not the best work done in these two videos but the essential basics are there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP9XY...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVdPOU59mlw


And how not to do it right and then broadcast yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO4px...feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghTn...feature=relmfu