Advertisement if your walls are combustible you can install a shield on a wall to reduce the stove s clearance area.
Can you burn laminate flooring in a wood stove.
The top layer contains an aluminum oxide coating that would burn into the air which can be harmful if breathed in.
Make sure it s one that is moisture proof or resistant and glue all your joints.
The high heat in a wood stove turns these chemicals into acids that eat their way through stovepipes metal baffles and other internal components of the stove according to the chimney sweep online.
It ll help keep spills from getting into the joints and under the boards which can eventually cause buckling as well as deteriorate them faster.
3 november 2009 at 8 01pm.
My dad has an old cast iron wood burning stove has been putting anything that burns mdf chipboard logs etc in it for 20 yrs without issue.
Ah for the old days when they made things properly.
Make sure the contact surface for each leg measures at least 4 square inches 2x2 inches or 25 cm 5x5 cm.
The wood heat organization recommends setting the floor pad so that it s flush with the surrounding flooring you don t want to remove a fire hazard but create a tripping hazard.
First things first stoves can be heavy.
Also you will gain floor height which can.
First if you re putting laminate in the kitchen buy a small bottle of tongue and groove flooring glue.
Just worried it might give off fumes.
Don t place a wood stove in the basement because it will lose heat and immediately ruin the laminate floor.
Even though laminate flooring consists of 80 wood they cannot be safely burnt or incinerated like other wood products.
Stove clearance advice the minimum safe distance between a wood stove and surrounding walls and floors.
The stove s legs should be large enough in order to reduce the point load on your laminate floor.
However you should consider a number of things.
Loose cracked tiles will cause your install to fail.