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    Tiling a woodstove hearth with small tiles & heavy stove

    Hi there, We bought a 700 pound Woodstock Progress Hybrid and will be making a tile hearth flush with the surrounding wood floors. My wife wants to use small 1/4" thick ceramic or slate tiles placed in a herringbone pattern for the flooring the woodstove will sit on. In looking through tile...
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    Combifire floor protection: place woodstove on ceramic tile floor?

    Hi all, Newbie poster here. My husband and I have a beautiful old Jotul Combifire that we are fixing up to put into our house, largely based on great advice I have found on this website. The stove will be installed in a corner of a room. We have done all our research about heat shields and...
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    Slate hearth cracked - advice please?

    Hi folks - first time poster. Hoping you can help me. We recently had a 4kw wood burning stove installed. The stove sits on top of a single piece of slate that measures 1100 wide x 800 deep x 20mm thick. Underneath the hearth stone there is a section of floorboards cut out, so a recess which a...
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    Hearth Framing Advice?

    I'm installing a Russo W25 in my sister's new house, and I'd like to install a nice hearth and possibly a brick wall behind it. (1" air gap, open all around) I'm quite comfortable with the code and best practices around everything surrounding the stove; what I'm concerned about it the floor...
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