This could be dangerous if you don t have a tiled heat shield.
Tiling behind wood burning stove.
Purchase the appropriate amount of tiles and cement board to cover.
Safety trumps aesthetics when you add a gas or wood stove to your home.
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The standard minimum clearance for radiant wood stoves is 36 inches according to the national fire protection association nfpa.
Considering this what do you put behind a wood burning stove.
The most common way of doing this is to tile the wall or a portion of the wall behind the stove.
Also know how close can a wood stove be to a tile wall.
Dry fit the.
Wood burning stoves generate a lot of heat.
Removing it from the wall behind the wood stove allows you to install cement backerboard instead.
The cement board is a heat resistant durable surface that.
If the wood stove is installed 36 inches away a wide variety of.
Measure the area where you plan to install tile.
It s usually at this stage that people start asking us can i use tiles around my wood burning fire and what to put behind a wood burning stove.
Remove the drywall drywall is combustible and not a suitable material either for use behind the wood stove or for use underneath tile.
A couple of simple rules to follow.
How to install tile behind a wood stove 1.
Type x is a gypsum based drywall that is 5 8 inch thick and is installed on each side of a 2 inch by 4 inch wood stud spaced 16 inches on center or spaced 24 inches on center.
Use porcelain tiles to keep the heat in check.
Also a heat resistant tile adhesive such as the palace heat resistant adhesive should be applied onto a good solid surface.
If your stove will be within three feet of a wall adding a heat shield is essential.
Measure mark and cut the cement board to cover the area.
So the heat coming into contact with the tiles shouldn t be too great.
Most wood burning stoves have insulation blocks in the back and sides to minimise the heat escaping and there should also be a minimum of 150mm 6 inches around the back and the side of the stove for ventilation.
Here s everything you need to know about fire and heat resistant tiles.
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Hi i has a wood burning stove installed in my house last year the stud wall was replasted with heat resistant plaster but a crack has still appeared and i think the best thing i can do is to fill the crack and tile behind it.