Recent content by edickon

Hi there. Recently had some work done to our living room. As part of that we had skirting put up all the way to the side of a fireplace. We're now trying to put in a stove but realise that because the skirting is flammable it will be too close for building regs. So we're left with 2 choices...

I've checked the BRs and the hearth is fine. We're going for a slim one so the distances both to the front of the hearth and subhearth are ok. Also the stove only kicks out 4-5kW so we don't need anything very thick. We're getting a HETAS registered installer but from what you're saying maybe...

Hi there all, Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm on the point of order a new slate hearth to go in our fireplace on the ground floor, and we're going to put a solid fuel stove in on top. Ideally what we'd do is get a slab of slate about 20mm thick (fine for building regs) and put it...