Tiling Around A Wood Burning Stove

Add a splash of colour to your décor with a brightly coloured wood burning stove.

Tiling around a wood burning stove.

Try tiling the hearth and chimney breast with shiny black tiles in a uniform shape and size. Wood stoves have very specific requirements about how close they can be placed to combustible surfaces. Ceramic or clay tiles provide the most protection and are moderately easy to install. The distance varies by stove but many stoves are required to be eight to 36 inches away from a combustible wall.

Also a heat resistant tile adhesive such as the palace heat resistant adhesive should be applied onto a good solid surface. Bare wood or sheetrock walls around a wood stove are fire hazards. The best wall shields help to radiate the heat from the stove into the room. We recommend using porcelain tiles which are very heat resistant.

Laminate the surrounding floors to create a striking contrast then add your splash of colour with a log burner in an interesting hue. Installing tile behind a wood stove provides heat protection color texture and warmth to the area. So the heat coming into contact with the tiles shouldn t be too great. A fire resistant wall shield is necessary to eliminate the threat of fire.

It is conventional to install wall shields over fire resistant wall spacers. The flue should be the same colour as the stove so that it contrasts against the black tiled chimney breast. Answer using a ceramic tile which includes porcelain ceramic tiles around heat is not a problem because most ceramic tiles are fired well above 1200 f and more like 2000 f. Most wood burning stoves have insulation blocks in the back and sides to minimise the heat escaping and there should also be a minimum of 150mm 6 inches around the back and the side of the stove for ventilation.

Usually people will tend to use fire resistant bricks around their burner because they re great at absorbing heat without transferring it to neighbouring areas. Wood stoves need to sit on a noncombustible surface. The most common way of doing this is to tile the wall or a portion of the wall behind the stove. What is important is to select a tile that is chip resistant so when logs and other equipment are dropped on them they don t chip.

Keep a distance of at least 150mm 6 inches around the side of the burner when deciding between ceramic and porcelain tiles for your fireplace go for porcelain tiles. If you buy it dry pay strict attention to the mixing directions weigh the powder and measure the water get it perfectly free of lumps paint mixer in a cordless drill works good let it slake the prescribed time and mix again then spread it with a trowel with serrations or teeth appropriately sized to the tiles you re setting.