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Hi Diynotters
Before I get the stove installer back to fix it, I wanted to check with you folks...
Here's my stove install - https://imgur.com/a/N7xp2MV
The chimney breast is metal studwork, faced in cement board. When the installer fitted the stove, the installer was aware that we wanted to hang a reclaimed wooden beam on those two brackets you see either side of the opening, with its bottom edge level with the opening.
Currently the distance from the outside of the flue to the front face of the chimney breast, where the wooden beam would be attached, is 12cm. It is 15cm single wall flue (it converts to twinwall higher up before going through the ceiling). Building regs distance, even with the cement board shielding, is 1.5x, so 22.5cm, I think? And the bottom of the beam that is not shielded needs to be 3x from the flue, which would seem to be not achievable at all...
Is the solution to get a building regs compliant distance to the beam to re-do the flue with twin wall, so the allowable distance to combustibles is 50-70mm depending on the flue type? Any other ideas?
Thanks!
SD
Before I get the stove installer back to fix it, I wanted to check with you folks...
Here's my stove install - https://imgur.com/a/N7xp2MV
The chimney breast is metal studwork, faced in cement board. When the installer fitted the stove, the installer was aware that we wanted to hang a reclaimed wooden beam on those two brackets you see either side of the opening, with its bottom edge level with the opening.
Currently the distance from the outside of the flue to the front face of the chimney breast, where the wooden beam would be attached, is 12cm. It is 15cm single wall flue (it converts to twinwall higher up before going through the ceiling). Building regs distance, even with the cement board shielding, is 1.5x, so 22.5cm, I think? And the bottom of the beam that is not shielded needs to be 3x from the flue, which would seem to be not achievable at all...
Is the solution to get a building regs compliant distance to the beam to re-do the flue with twin wall, so the allowable distance to combustibles is 50-70mm depending on the flue type? Any other ideas?
Thanks!
SD