Big Chimney Pots

Sometimes a chimney pot just isn't big enough for that 24"x 24" flue for your basic six foot wide Rumford. Maybe you like the style of a smaller pot that's not available in a larger size or maybe you have other chimneys with smaller pots and one huge pot would just look out of place.

A pot used on a 1920's vintage lumber baron's house we worked on provided a solution. It looked like a cluster of four relatively small pots that matched pots on several other chimneys. But a closer look reveled that what looked like a cluster of four pots was really one big pot made by grouping four pots together and cutting out the middle.

Each corner was an ordinary-sized pot with one quarter section cut out of it. Then the four modified pots were set with clay partitions between the corner pots so the whole thing was in reality a single pot with a large 24"x24" opening in the middle.

We've used this technique to hide mechanical devices like chimney-top exhaust fans too.


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