Stone/Tile Flooring to support wood stove?

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Jim Ignatowski

Jim Ignatowski

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Sep 27, 2012
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Hello,

I'm not sure if anyone has any recommendation regarding this ... I'm planning on putting a wood stove in my basement and want to use some slate looking ceramic tile or stone tiles as a base for the wood stove. The material would be set upon a concrete slab. Are there specific material, adhesives, and grouts that can handle the high temperature output of a wood stove? Also, I would imagine that the flooring would also need to deal with some substantial temperature changes.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm starting with a bare concrete floor, so I want to do this right.

Thank you in advance. And if I'm in the wrong forum, sorry. Thanks
 
Hello Jim, not much heat radiates down. Any combo of tile, stone and mortar will work just fine, especially when going over concrete.
 
What, exactly, is the appliance you're planning to install? What does the manufacturer say about hearth protection beneath? If your plan consists simply of non-combustible materials over a non-combustible slab, then it's pretty much a no-brainer. You can use anything (tile, whatever) you want, so long as it's non-combustible. Same materials you would use anywhere else in the house...unless you're installing something unusual or altered. How about the clearances to combustibles around the perimeter of the appliance...all factored into the installation? Welcome to the forums! Rick
 
Stone tiles set in thinset on a cement slab floor on earth would be good for anything out there that I know of.
 
Thanks for the replies ... I'm actually in the process of investigating different stoves and am preparing the surface area. What prompted me to inquire about this was an experience I had in my previous home where a couple of ceramic tiles cracked after several weeks of very large temperature changes. The tiles were installed on a basement slab.
 
That is an odd one. What stove will you be installing? Many new stoves don't radiate a lot of heat toward the floor. Our cat sometimes sleeps under our stove.
 
I have my stove sitting on ceramic tiles with regular ole grout between them. None of them have cracked in 3 years so far. I would think you'd be fine. But then again, I'm no professional!
 
I'm wondering if this could have been due to poor bedding of those tiles under a very heavy stove foot and not the temp swing?
 
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