Need a Hearth Pad

Cut out your wood floor, make a cardboard template with cardboard strips and a hot glue gun, take it to a granite shop and buy a remnant, Have them cut it or do it yourself with a $35 blade from Lowes. Save 3 or 4 hundred and depending on your taste have a killer hearth pad for cheap. Forgot to add a tube of silicone caulk.

I agree. Cut out the floor. I'd stain the concrete or tile it. So many nice tiles available for just a couple bucks a foot. Travertine, slate, porcelain. They'd all work and look great.

Mac;
I am in the process of installing a new Osburn 2400 in a corner in my basement as well. I looked at the specs for the stove and it told me the dimensions I had to be away from combustible surfaces. I pulled the carpet up exposing the concrete floor and then made a cardboard template of the stove per its dimensions. I laid the template on the floor and measured to the wall corners to get the required dimensions. I will say here that I purchased a required building permit and have to put the stove in per specs to not have a problem with my insurance.

I am doing my own tile work, having done tile work before but even if you never have, it is easy to learn how from a knowledgeable salesman or even better Youtube. Once my template was taped to the floor I then made lines as to how I would lay out my tiles. Even though my distances from the stove to my sheet rocked walls didn't require a wall tile I decided to anyway. I picked out some one foot square glass copper look tiles. Each individual piece is about one inch with all of them stuck to a backer material. All you do is stick it to the wall with mortar mix paying attention to keep it level and the lines aligned up. You let it dry and then spread grout mix on filling in the little cracks and clean it off per instructions. I made mine 4 ft by 4 ft on each back wall.

On the floor with the cardboard stove template taped down, I measured and marked the floor with colored pensils indicating each individual tile. These tiles are about a half inch thick and 17 x 17 inches, where the wall pieces were about 3/16 inch thick. After starting in the 90 degree corner of the back walls I started working out from the corner with the full tiles putting the mortar down. After I got 4 full tiles out (horizontally and vertically) and using a square to keep it all square, I marked 45 degree angles connecting the vertical and horizontal lines to make an angled front piece. Run a straight edge along these edges to mark your cut on these last two large tiles.

I wanted a little fancier look around the edges so I cut some tiles in quarters (4 x 17 inch) and made a bit of a decorative edge around the outside edges. I picked out the back wall glass tiles and the floor ceramic tiles at Home Depot as they had the best selection and I wanted to see how the colors looked together. I spent about $370 on all the tile, mortar, a couple of hand tools, the grout etc. I will have about 2 1/2 days into doing it all. I got the look I wanted and the floor and back wall all done for that price. You will need a tile saw. Either rent one or buy one at Harbor Freight. There really wasn't that many cuts to make.

I will be doing the final grouting tomorrow. My new stove will be here in about a week so I will then set it in place and mark out where on the wall I will exit out through the concrete basement wall and order the needed black pipe I need and the outside triple wall that goes up the outer wall above the roof. I am pretty comfortable doing a little carpentry, tile work etc. and enjoy building projects myself. If you are sort of like me (probably more proficient) give it a shot. If I can help in any way just let me know.

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MacinJosh said:

Ok guys, need a hearth pad for my den. Flooring is laminate wood floor on top of concrete. There's a wooden baseboard too. Heath pad will be a corner style and go in the very corner there where the computer desk is behind the chair. The chair, desk, and plant rack will all go away.

So what's your favorite hearth pad? Been looking online at WoodlandDirect. They have some pretty nice ones for around $500 and they deliver. How big should I get? Can you get them custom made? I assume as long as the stove sits far enough away from that drywall to meet clearance I won't need any side/wall thermal protection correct? The stove manual says no floor thermal protection is needed, just combustible protection.

Any advice is always appreciated. Thanks!

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If you can't or don't want to put one in by yourself take a look at this website. They have about anything you want.

http://www.woodlanddirect.com/Wood-Stove-and-Accessories/Corner-Hearth-Pads/?state=All

Whew! Sorrryy

As was previously mentioned you are going to pay a ton more to add r-value where no addition is needed(concrete floor) if you order one, as well as brutal shipping.

This is what I did...
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/hearth-pad-stove-and-chimney-install.154586/

I think you could leave the existing laminate flooring and build the hearth on top. Assuming you are building a raised pad.

I put my joists at 12" on center for the pad and made sure they were perpendicular to the joist that actually hold up the floor underneath. If you're worried about the weight maybe do 2 layers of 1/2" or 3/4" plywood under your cement board?

And stagger the seams.

I wanted to build a pad but the wife just wanted it done since the stove was in our garage. Went with Woodlawn since they had more options than the pads locally. Here is what I went with

http://www.woodlanddirect.com/Wood-...eritage-Standard-Hearth-Pad-Western-Flagstone

Here is one of the first fires. My stove didn't need R protection and we got the biggest one to have that extra protection