Brick wall backing

[Grizzly]

I purchased a 1908 Copper Clad Wood burning stove in Butte, Montana in 1995, hauled it home and had four neighbor help me carry it into my living room. It weighs 400 lbs. I built a red brick wall with a 1" dead air space and a brick patio pavers on the floor. It has a copper lined water storage tank on the right side, which we haven't used. We do use the stove to supplement our heat and whenever we entertain. My wife cooks and keep food and coffee hot. I monitor the heat at the brick wall and it has never gotten more than warm. When I build my house in 1985, I install a thimble through the outside wall for a SS double wall insulated stove pipe. The Master Bedroom is directly above the stove, so I couldn't run the stove pipe straight up. It took me 10 years to find the right cook stove. In the meantime I had a pot belly stove in that corner. We use it all the time in the winter.



george

 

[BIGNASTY]

I cant believe the amount of people that have and still use these things. I have been on-line with folks that WONT have anything else and they do have a choice. When the wife said she wanted one I thought Ya!! right I will get the thing in and a month later I DONT WANT IT ANYMORE :{ (still remains to be seen ) Grizz the stove shes looking at weighs in a 500lbs its going to take an army of us to get it into position. The heat in the summer months has been talked about but we do allot of BBQ and on the grill work in the summer the family thinks im nuts because I BBQ in the dead of winter on the deck I like BBQ and I dont care what time of the year it is. One of the things that I kind of like about the stove she wants is the fire box uses fire brick that can be picked up at ANY hardware store even the one in our town has it. Some of the others need to have THEIR fire brick that has been formed for their stove at GREAT EXPENCE I guess she did some reading.

 

[Bill Stockard]

As I was relaxing in front of our wood stove, I remembered this thread with the question about a brick wall backing on the wall behind a wood stove. From this photo I took early this evening, you will notice no fireproofing behind the stove other than drywall. This is an approved installation with a Lopi stove because of the way they draw combustion air. The stove can by used all day and the wall only gets a little warm.



Bill

 

[BIGNASTY]

Bill

Thats the way our Harman room wood stoves are also but we put up tile in back to make it a finished look (dont ask me I just do as im told inside the house) I have installed the cook stove chimney and Dura Rock board so we can fend off heat the stove company said it will get hot and to install something. I called them and what we did was to rip off the drywall and within the wall the chimney is enclosed with Drua Rock board they said only 1 sheet would be fine but I put 2 in with about a 1/2 inch space between the two all the way to the roof exit. Chimney is double pipe. And the wall was done in 1 sheet thick of Drua Rock Board covered with fake stone. Looks pretty good for a rookie have to let that sit for a day and Friday I will grout around the stone and smooth that out. Looks like Sunday is the test day for burnt food cooking



Also used the Drua Rock for a base on the floor hearth the stove will sit on covered in tile trimmed in the same wood as the floor.





Bill looking at your picture of your wood stove I see you have the same kind of slippers as I do. I should send you the MANY LEFT ONE'S that I have no need for :-laf



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