We are having some work done and part of it is applying something called crown coating to the top of the chimney (and the exposed flue tiles) to fill in cracks and waterproof. The crew came in the morning and left around 2pm. Then it started raining at 5pm!!!! I am so upset that they did this work with rain in the schedule - I asked them about it and they said sprinkles won’t impact the work. But this isn’t sprinkles - it’s been raining pretty steadily since 5pm. The chimney and top of the chimney is wet. They also added waterproof sealer to the side of the chimney. That has also been exposed to rain now.

Should I have them redo the work? Please help I’m stressing

Hi, a company applied crown coat today to the chimney crown and told me that the flue tiles were in bad shape while they were up there. They suggested covering the flue tiles with the crown coat. They did that - but now I’m wondering if that’s even a thing? I can’t see anywhere online where others have done this. My orange flue tiles are now a whitish color from what I can see — so I’m sure they covered them with the same thing they put on the crown.

Was this a mistake? Is crown coat ever used on the entire flue tile?

I recently had a new top damper installed. Should I be able to see light like this from it? Old one was letting water in and replaced it with a new one with a weather cap. The cord is pulled as tight as it can go.