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Diy wood stove wall heat shield.
So a heat shield seemed like a good way to cover that up get a little wall protection and create a focal point for the room.
1 heat shield spacers are available online or sometimes at your local hardware store for this purpose.
We took care as well to use insulating mounts between the heat shield and the wall behind so that the connectors themselves don t form a heat conducting path between the wood stove and the combustible wall.
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Try to avoid placing a spacer directly between the center of the stove and the wall since spacers can conduct heat through the shield to the combustible wall.
Safe wood stove installations require a heat shield that will prevent heat from the wood stove from creating a fire hazard in the building materials that form the exterior wall.
It s usually best to place the spacers around the perimeter of the shield.
There are two approaches to heat shield protection to reduce wood heater fire clearance distances.
A radiant wood stove that does not have a built in heat shield requires at least three feet of air space between the stove and any combustible material including wooden studs hidden behind drywall.
Generally the heat shield must extend a minimum of 20 inches beyond each side of the wood stove and 20 inches above it.