The wood was so hot, hot hot to the touch - and I have thick skin. This was at my home, with a decorative oak panel wall getting too hot for my liking, even though it was 18 inches away. Adding a heatshield to the chimney pipe was an essential part of the success. Rather than putting non-combustible on the wall, I put a heatshield on the stove and it worked great. But it could be anything else suitable - non-flammable. I used long screws to mount the heat shield, driving them through 1" cut pieces of pipe as spacers. What do you use for spacers behind the wall protector to allow for the 1" space? with some scrap bits of board!! seems to work well but we don't us it a lot I used a 4x8 sheet of cement board cut up to make 2 sides and a floor> We then painted it with high heet paint stood it out from the wall 2 in. Here is more info on woodstove heat shield and clearances. That allowed reducing the distance by about 1/3. I have one stove installation that uses 24 ga. Stove manufacturers data should list the requirements. is installed with a one inch air space between it and the combustibles behind, then the clearance distance may be reduced. The stove should still be installed the recommended distance from the combustibles. behind and beside a wood stove does not reduce the clearance measurements. I installed a bunch of black granite behind our woodstove. One added thing about real stone is the added thermal mass that those provide. Do they make a wall protector/heat shield that looks like stone/rock/brick etc.? Our wood stove will be installed in a corner and we would like to have some faux stonework behind it on the wall. Small Cabin Forum / Member's Projects and Photos / Heat shield behind the stove Forums - Register/Sign Up - Reply - Search - Statistics.
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