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Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown in Hempstead: What to Know First

We’re an independent Olympia Chimney service provider in Hempstead, and we handle chimney cap and crown work on Olympia products every season. Most cap replacements on Olympia systems in Hempstead run between $285 and $620 installed, depending on the flue count and whether the crown itself needs resurfacing. A full custom multi-flue cap with crown repair typically lands between $700 and $1,100. If you own an Olympia chimney and the cap is rusting through or the crown is spalling, call (516) 963-1068 and we’ll give you a real number before a single tool comes off the truck.

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This page is for Hempstead homeowners who bought an Olympia Chimney system, whether it came with the house or a contractor put it in, and now have water getting where it shouldn’t. Wendell Pike, owner of Top Hat Chimney, has been working on Olympia products around Nassau County for over two decades. Here’s what you need to know about keeping that cap and crown doing their job.

How Olympia Chimney Products Fail - and How We Fix Them

Olympia builds a decent product, but every brand has its weak spots. Here are the ones we see most on Hempstead rooftops, and what we actually do about them.

• Olympia stainless caps with galvanized hardware. The caps themselves hold up fine. The mounting hardware is another story. Olympia’s standard cap line often ships with galvanized steel brackets and screws, which start corroding within three to five winters on Long Island. The cap looks fine from the ground, but the attachment points rot, the cap shifts, and rain sneaks past. We replace the hardware with 304 stainless before remounting the cap. Costs about $40 in parts and keeps the cap where it belongs.
• Cast-in-place crowns on Olympia masonry chimneys. Olympia doesn’t make the crown on a masonry chimney, but their installation specs assume a proper one exists. We regularly find Hempstead chimneys where the crown was poured flat, with no drip edge, and the water runs straight down the brick face. Freeze-thaw cycles in Nassau County do the rest. We rebuild the crown with a proper slope and a drip edge that kicks water away from the brick. An Olympia cap can’t do its job if the crown underneath is funneling water into the flue.
• Olympia’s standard single-flue caps with perforated mesh that clogs. Fine mesh keeps animals out, but it traps soot and creosote on wood-burning flues. We see this on Olympia installations throughout Hempstead where homeowners burn regularly. The mesh loads up, draft falls off, and the fireplace starts smoking back into the room. The fix is either more frequent cleaning or swapping to a cap with a larger open-area mesh. We’ll show you the camera footage so you can see exactly what’s happening before you spend.
• Crown coating failures on Olympia factory-built chimney systems. Olympia’s factory-built units ship with a metal chase top, but when those corrode, the first line of defense is a crown coating. Cheap silicone coatings peel within two seasons. On Hempstead homes near the water, salt air accelerates the breakdown. We use a polymer-modified cementitious crown coat that breathes and flexes, sealed over the entire crown surface, not just the cracked spots.
• Olympia multi-flue systems with the wrong cap configuration. Olympia makes multi-flue caps, but we see a lot of Hempstead homes where a single-flue Olympia cap was slapped on a two-flue chimney and oversized with sheet metal scraps. Cross-contamination happens when one flue exhausts while another drafts, pulling combustion gases back into the unused flue. We measure the flue tiles, order or fabricate a proper multi-flue cap, and bed it on a new crown when needed.

Our Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown Process

Here’s what happens when you call us about an Olympia cap or crown in Hempstead. No mystery, no price-switching at the door.

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   You call (516) 963-1068. A live person answers, around the clock. Could be Wendell himself. You describe what you’re seeing, and we book a time that works. Real arrival window, and we call if it slips.
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   We inspect from the roof, not from the lawn. Wendell or a crew member gets on the roof, photographs everything, and drops a camera down the flue if we suspect internal damage. You get the footage and a plain-English verdict. If the cap is fine and the crown is just dirty, we’ll tell you that.
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   We price the job before work begins. The number we quote is the number on the invoice. If you have a written estimate from another company, bring it. We’ll give you a free second opinion on it.
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   Parts decision: OEM or quality aftermarket. Olympia caps are fine when the original part matches the flue size. But if your Olympia cap failed from galvanized hardware, we’re not reinstalling galvanized hardware. We source a stainless replacement or an equivalent from our other trusted lines: DuraFlex, Gelco, or Copperfield. Your warranty stays intact because we don’t alter the chimney structure, only the accessories.
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   Repair, test, and document. Cap installed, crown rebuilt or coated, everything sealed. We test the draft with a smoke match, not a guess. Then we hand you photos of the finished work, a copy of the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing, and the warranty info on the parts.
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   Cleanup. No debris left on the roof, no rusty old cap sitting in your azalea bed. We haul it off. You shouldn’t know we were there except for the chimney working right.

What Olympia Chimney Chimney Cap & Crown Costs in Hempstead

Here are real numbers from Hempstead jobs, not national averages from a pricing website.

What moves the price: roof pitch and height, whether the old crown needs full demolition or just resurfacing, and whether the flue tiles have spalled and need grinding. Homes in older Hempstead neighborhoods near Hofstra, with steep gables and walk-up roofs from the 1920s, take longer than a 1990s colonial with a gentle pitch. The estimate is free, and if you mention a competitor’s written quote, we’ll give you the second opinion free too. Call (516) 963-1068.

Why Hempstead Homeowners Call Top Hat Chimney for Olympia Chimney Work

We’ve been doing this since 1999, and Wendell has been on more Hempstead rooftops than he can count, including plenty of calls near Hofstra University where the older homes and older chimneys tend to go hand in hand. We’re not a franchise that rotated in last spring with a fresh wrap on the truck. Wendell puts his name and license number on the work, and he runs into you again on Saturday at the hardware store. That changes how the job gets done.

Every Olympia cap and crown job is backed by the 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not right, one call brings Wendell back at no charge. We carry parts from Olympia and from DuraFlex, HeatShield, and Gelco, so we’re not stuck waiting on a single supplier when your cap has failed and the next storm is three days out. And if it doesn’t need doing, Wendell will tell you. That’s probably cost him some work over the years, but it keeps the phone ringing.

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