So I have just purchased a wood burning stove and am in the process of fitting it. A local HETAS registered fitter is going to come and install the liner, connect it up and (hopefully) sign it off. I'm gonna do pretty much everything else.
I have removed the old gas fire, tidied up the opening and installed a new lintel. All good! The house is late Victorian and would have originally had a suspended floor, however this has been replaced by a gigantic concrete slab at some point. The existing hearth is a mixture of red brick and concrete so I'm gonna pull it out and lay a solid concrete slab meeting building regs..
Anyway, I was hoping to tile the recess and have a wooden surround, however if the distance from the sides of the stove to the wooden surround has to be 600mm.. well that takes it well past the edges of the chimney breast! And it's not a particularly small one..
So basically, am I reading this right? Is there anyway of fitting a wooden surround to a wood stove without it being 600mm way in every direction? Anything I can do to reduce the distance? Between the flue and combustibles has to be thrice the outside diameter of the pipe (?) but this can be reduced if using a heat shield.. anything similar for the surround?
Cheers,
Rob.
I have removed the old gas fire, tidied up the opening and installed a new lintel. All good! The house is late Victorian and would have originally had a suspended floor, however this has been replaced by a gigantic concrete slab at some point. The existing hearth is a mixture of red brick and concrete so I'm gonna pull it out and lay a solid concrete slab meeting building regs..
Anyway, I was hoping to tile the recess and have a wooden surround, however if the distance from the sides of the stove to the wooden surround has to be 600mm.. well that takes it well past the edges of the chimney breast! And it's not a particularly small one..
So basically, am I reading this right? Is there anyway of fitting a wooden surround to a wood stove without it being 600mm way in every direction? Anything I can do to reduce the distance? Between the flue and combustibles has to be thrice the outside diameter of the pipe (?) but this can be reduced if using a heat shield.. anything similar for the surround?
Cheers,
Rob.