Pan Flashing a Chimney
October  2000   Similar Articles
By Charles Thomas   (4  Pages)
In the face of Cape Cod’s wind-driven rain, lead pan flashings have successfully protected chimney openings for decades. A mason explains the installation process.

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For many decades on Cape Cod, masons have routinely used a single, large sheet of lead to create a through-pan flashing for their chimneys. The main reasons for using lead pan flashing include speed and economy and, in most cases, the lead eliminates the need for a constructed cricket on the upslope side of the chimney. Though I think they're ugly, I've never seen a properly made pan flashing leak, so if that's what customers want, that's what I give them. The general principle behind pan flashing is that any water entering the chimney, whether by absorption or directly down

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