The never ending install.....Finished (pic)

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Missouri Frontier

Feeling the Heat
Feb 5, 2013
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NW Missouri BFE north of KC
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This stove has been running for a year and we finally got the rock wall finished. The dang thing is done. As I usually do I went way overboard( double wall insulated stainless through the wall and a stone wall way larger than it needed to be.) But, i think it looks good. Anyone else?
 
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Nice job. The stonework looks excellent. How is the stove working out?

The only thing I would change is that I'd have less projection of the class A into the room.
 
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Nice job. The stonework looks excellent. How is the stove working out?

The only thing I would change is that I'd have less projection of the class A into the room.
Or It could be painted black to match the stovepipe.
 
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How is the stove working out

couldn't be happier. this project stetched my budget to the max(and then some). we built the house around sole source wood heat. I heated the entire 1200square ft last winter with the BK and 2 3/4 cords of wood. not bad.

Or It could be painted black to match the stovepipe


it may get get painted black at some point. Dang.....now it's not done again!
 
Tell me more about the stone work . . . real, fake, etc. . . how did you put them up?

Looking at ideas for behind my stove . . . painted sheetrock's corner joint keeps cracking (despite several attempts to fix and exceeding clearances for the stove.) I like the full wall look.
 
Tell me more about the stone work . . . real, fake, etc. . . how did you put them up?

Looking at ideas for behind my stove . . . painted sheetrock's corner joint keeps cracking (despite several attempts to fix and exceeding clearances for the stove.) I like the full wall look.


It's real. small quartz stones glued together to form 6x12 tiles. available at the blue big box diy store for $3.99 a piece. I hung them with mastic on Hardy backer cement board. They actually look better in person than in the pic. They come in a couple colors. I jokingly(not so much) call it my $1200 rock wall.
 
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Gluing is generally not advised around a wood stove, but if the wall is at the minimum clearance or greater than it should be fine.
 
Gluing is generally not advised around a wood stove, but if the wall is at the minimum clearance or greater than it should be fine.
It's beyond the minimum. The tiles are glued by the manufacturer. Manufacturer says they can be used for this purpose as long as they are installed at minimum clearance distance. Checked into it before I spent the coin. Learned to check things like that from this forum and nice folks like begreen.;)
 
As far as using the sheets of "glued" tile. Is the concern that the glue would melt? or that it is flammable?

Those sheets are glued together but still get mortar/grouted in between. The glue is really only meant to ease the stone "sheets" application. Once the mortar/grout is solid, the glue should have little impact on anything unless it is flammable...

Or at least I would think that would be the only issue.
 
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These particular stone tiles are dry stacked, they use no grout between the tiles. The glue they use is some of the toughest stuff on earth! It ain't going anywhere.
 
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This stove has been running for a year and we finally got the rock wall finished. The dang thing is done. As I usually do I went way overboard( double wall insulated stainless through the wall and a stone wall way larger than it needed to be.) But, i think it looks good. Anyone else?
Looks great...more importantly however is your sharing details of the project. Send me a pm with your mailing address. I'll drop something you forgot in the mail.
 
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Those sheets are glued together but still get mortar/grouted in between. The glue is really only meant to ease the stone "sheets" application. Once the mortar/grout is solid, the glue should have little impact on anything unless it is flammable...

Or at least I would think that would be the only issue.
correct. no problem as long as clearances are honored.
 
As far as using the sheets of "glued" tile. Is the concern that the glue would melt? or that it is flammable?

Those sheets are glued together but still get mortar/grouted in between. The glue is really only meant to ease the stone "sheets" application. Once the mortar/grout is solid, the glue should have little impact on anything unless it is flammable...

Or at least I would think that would be the only issue.

Manufacturer recommended installing half the height of the full wall install on one day. Then letting the mastic cure for a day. Then working up to the ceiling. I did this, although I don't believe it was that crucial. With in 30 minutes of installing a tile, I couldn't pull it off the wall( I tried hard;em). When using the tile saw on this stuff, the saw acted like the glue was harder than the stone! I'm no expert on glue or stone( or much else for that matter), but it appears to me that the stones are glued simply to make the install easier than having to apply one small odd sized stone at a time. The glue is on the back of the stone at the joints between stones. The majority of the baring surface is stone to mastic to Hardy backer. You can't see glue on the finished face of the wall. I have little doubt that if the glue evaporated, there would be no effect on the structural integrity of the finished product at this point.
 
Looks great! Thats the stuff i was gonna use but found some bigger sections at the local mason yard. I still haven't finished my back wall and aug will be a year, im aiming for sep now lol
 
Looks great! Thats the stuff i was gonna use but found some bigger sections at the local mason yard. I still haven't finished my back wall and aug will be a year, im aiming for sep now lol

We install no wall before it's time. Lol. You'll get it. Post pics when you are done.
 
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