How make a tile hearth padFor woodStove?
JohnT8
| Posted in Construction Techniques on
Looking for advice on making a tile hearth pad for a wood stove. I would like for it to be portable in case I decide to take the wood stove with me when I sell the house (or if the buyer doesn’t like the wood stove). It will be 54″x54″ with a corner clipped (similar to pic embedded below). The current floor is a Bruce engineered hardwood (just put it in).
What layers do I need for the hearth pad?
1. Cement board and tile?
2. plywood, cement board, and tile? (plywood to hold the pieces of cement board together)
3. plywood, non flammable material, cement board, tile?
jt8
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. — Voltaire
Replies
heh heh
JohnT8 is off on another project.
be projected
With the hardwood flooring in, the $30 stove board is no longer aesthetically pleasing. And with a temp of 7F with a wind chill of -15F, John is not pleased having the wood stove disconnected. Don't like to see the gas meter spinning so much.
I had even tried emailing the stove board folks to see if I could get a custom size and maybe have Grant copper clad it. But they didn't have 54x54.
jt8
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire
I was installing a lot of pellet stoves about 30 last fall and built several pads and installed some on pads customers made . several built were on a layer of 3/4 in plywood with a layer of cement board then tile. on the ones my friend and I built we framed some on 2 x 4s and 2 x 6s and framed them 16 on center just like a small deck then Ply then tile. for a wood stove id use cement board too. the only two problems we found was 1 didn't make large enough and 2 they didn't brace them enough for some floors being uneven and when they used large tiles 12 x 12 they had several crack from the weight so build the base rugged and smaller tiles when you can or make sure your floor is level and very flat when using large tiles. or go with 1/2 in granite slate etc. the thing we found in several cases after buying materials was that it wasn't that much cheaper then the premade hearths. good luck.
Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me