Hi,
Currently installing a 5kw square nero woodburner in my own place.
I have it in the corner of the room and am planning on building a stone hearth under it with a small 4" upstand. I plan on keeping the wall behind bare plasterboard with decoration the same as the rest of the room.
My questions is I have positioned the woodburner roughly 150mm from the two walls form the back corners for the burner and 400mm from the back of the burner to the corner of the wall. The make up of the wall is 12mm plasterboard with 2x1-1/2 strapping with solid block.
What would you suggest doing to protect the walls from the hear/fire? I did think about cutting the plasterboard out and replacing with pink fire resistant sheets then re taping it back into the old plasterboard? but is this realy worth it, what are tha chances of the timber behind the platerboard getting hot enough to catch fire?
Cheers
Currently installing a 5kw square nero woodburner in my own place.
I have it in the corner of the room and am planning on building a stone hearth under it with a small 4" upstand. I plan on keeping the wall behind bare plasterboard with decoration the same as the rest of the room.
My questions is I have positioned the woodburner roughly 150mm from the two walls form the back corners for the burner and 400mm from the back of the burner to the corner of the wall. The make up of the wall is 12mm plasterboard with 2x1-1/2 strapping with solid block.
What would you suggest doing to protect the walls from the hear/fire? I did think about cutting the plasterboard out and replacing with pink fire resistant sheets then re taping it back into the old plasterboard? but is this realy worth it, what are tha chances of the timber behind the platerboard getting hot enough to catch fire?
Cheers