Building A Cricket For Chimney. Roof crickets are found on the high side of a chimney or when one roof meets another. The roof cricket is normally the same pitch as the rest of the roof but not always.
You can prevent this from happening by building a roofing cricket sometimes called a saddle. Very sorry this video is so long but loads of good stuff. A chimney that intersects the ridge does not need a roof cricket as it will not suffer a build up of water.
In building codes that require chimney crickets there is typically an exception.
A roof cricket is a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof. This area is the least noticeable from the ground yet likely has more damage than other sections of a masonry or prefabricated chimney. You can prevent this from happening by building a roofing cricket sometimes called a saddle. Everything you want to know to do this yourself.
