Why Lewisville chimneys need a custom cap
Lewisville has a higher concentration of homes over 3,000 square feet than most of Forsyth County, and those larger custom homes carry larger, more complex masonry chimneys — often double- or triple-flue, sometimes with decorative brick detailing visible straight from the curb. A stamped cap from the home center is built to “fit” a clean 13”x13” or 21”x21” opening. Real chimneys on the bigger Shallowford Road and Pfafftown homes don’t measure in tidy inches, and a multi-flue chimney can’t be covered by an off-the-shelf product at all.
We’ve watched stamped caps fail across Lewisville the same way every time: pinned to crumbling mortar with sheet-metal screws, lifting an inch on one side, rattling in wind by year three, gone after a storm by year five. We provide caps custom-built, to your chimney’s actual dimensions, in materials that outlast the cap that came before them.
Copper caps for the homes worth treating as architecture
On Lewisville’s higher-end brick homes — the custom builds north toward Pfafftown and Yadkinville, and the established homes around the historic core — a copper cap reads as a finished architectural element, not an afterthought. Copper develops a patina over its first 5-10 years, from bright orange toward a darker bronze and eventually the green you see on old churches, and it will outlast the roof beneath it. Where a homeowner already chose copper gutters (common on the upper end here), a matching copper cap completes the roofline.
For modern farmhouse builds and contemporary homes in the newer developments, stainless steel is usually the right call: 30-50+ years of life, stays bright, no patina, and roughly 40% of the copper price. It pairs naturally with the standing seam metal accents going up across Lewisville’s newer subdivisions.
What a proper cap includes
A real cap is a system, not a lid on a flue. Every Lewisville cap we build includes a top plate covering the entire crown, a spark screen to keep embers in and birds, squirrels, and raccoons out, a drip edge that overhangs the masonry on all sides so water sheds away from the brick, and standoff legs set at proper draft clearance. For the multi-flue chimneys common on the larger homes here, we install a single cap covering all flues with correct clearance to each — work most contractors won’t quote. Finials, custom edge profiles, and integral lightning arrestors are available when requested.
Lewisville’s open, less-canopied developments also matter here: more UV and more wind than the heavily-canopied older Winston-Salem neighborhoods means a cap has to be fastened and weighted to stay put through exposed-lot gusts. We build accordingly.
When the cap is part of a bigger chimney problem
Sometimes the cap is fine and the leak is elsewhere — a cracked concrete crown letting freeze-thaw into the masonry, failing step and counter flashing where the chimney meets the roof, or open mortar joints needing repointing. We assess the whole chimney before recommending anything. If your cap is sound but the crown is failing, we’ll tell you that rather than sell you a cap you don’t need. And if you’re already scheduling a roof replacement on one of Lewisville’s larger 3-4 day jobs, the cap goes on while the crew is already there.
Why Lewisville homeowners choose Mid Atlantic
- 10 minutes away on Reynolda Road
- custom-built to your chimney’s actual measurements — we never build from a verbal description
- Copper and stainless — the materials that last, sized for bigger brick chimneys
- Multi-flue and complex configurations other contractors decline
- In-house W-2 crews, no subcontractors
- A+ BBB, 4.8★ on Google and Facebook
- 3-year workmanship warranty
Schedule a chimney cap measurement
Call (336) 671-5208 or request an estimate online. We take measurements at your Lewisville home, install, and install in a follow-up visit — usually scheduled within 48 hours.