Log Burner install plasterboard

[danoid]

I hope this is the correction section.

I live in a 1999 house and all walls downstairs is plasterboard and stud behind.

As plasterboard is considered combustible this is no good for a log burner.

It looks like hardiebacker is good to use but can the current plasterboard be cut out and replaced with hardiebacker? What about the stud behind it?

The other way round this is to put the hardiebacker over the plasterboard but you then need a 12mm air gap, and surely that would look ugly.

Thanks

 

[Safety First]

Are you installing this yourself or with a Hetas certified installer?
What are the specified clearances from combustibles given by your stove manufacturer?

 

[danoid]

It’ll be by a pro for sure! Just trying to figure out if it’ll look nice to start with
The burner will be in a corner aswell to nake it more awkward, the stove i’m looking at says 500mm from combustible but obviously lower when using a heat shield or fireboard

 

[darrington]

I've worked in a few houses lately where new woodburners have been installed. Some of the houses were older and the walls were lath and plaster, others were more modern, and had plasterboard walls. Either way, the stove fitters cut back the plaserboard or the lath and plaster, and then replaced it with fireboard/ hardiebacker. They cut the old wall back to the required distance, fitted the new boards, which was then taped into the original wall,, prepped then blended into the original.

 

[danoid]

The stud work has to be changed to metal aswell that way doesn’t it?

 

[darrington]

I don't know about that Danoid, you'd need to ask. The installers would do whatever would be required.

 

[bobasd]

dont touch any of that work mate. as above, get a HETAS in. get one recom from a local stove shop where your geting the burner from.
you could otherwise end up causing a fire and being blanked by your insurance.