Sheet Metal Wood Stove Heat Shield
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Sheet metal wood stove heat shield. A fire resistant wall shield is necessary to eliminate the threat of fire. Sheet metal heat shield for a wood stove. Hi i have a 40 x60 26 gauge piece of sheet metal that i purchased from a machine shop in town. The best wall shields help to radiate the heat from the stove into the room.
Your heat shields don t need to be made of the same materials. Make sure the tape will be visible above and below the dimensions of the metal heat shield. It is conventional to install wall shields over fire resistant wall spacers. Mark their location by placing pieces of masking tape on the wall.
The wood stove heats up the metal and the metal spreads this heat over its entire surface area so that circulating air can keep everything sufficiently cool. Bare wood or sheetrock walls around a wood stove are fire hazards. A discussion started in 2004 but continuing through 2018. Installing a sheet metal shield can reduce clearances by 67.
Dwarf stove with currogated metal shield. If you combine them with a 29 gauge sheet metal back you can cut the clearance by two thirds. The shield needs to be at least an inch from the wall and an inch off the floor and mechanically fastened. These shields are constructed with a sheet of 24 gauge or thicker sheet metal or 1 2 or thicker cement board with 1 of air space behind the shield and around the perimeter to allow free air flow.
Heat shield specifications for wood stoves pellet stoves the tan ceramic tile heat shield behind the woodstove and its flue in this photo was constructed by the author df in 1990 by bonding ceramic tile to a factory made fireproof heat shield board consisting of metal covering a fireproof cement board. Ceramic tiles and brick heat shields can reduce your clearance requirements by 50 per cent. For instance you can have a floor heat shield of brick and wall heat shields of sheet metal. I ve installed it behind my new wood stove to 1 protect the wall behind it and 2 reflect the heat back into the room.
By far the most effective heat shields are the air cooled type.