- Nov 14, 2012
- 2
Hi All,
My first post here. I've been researching construction of a hearthpad for a hearthstone (homestead) stove i am about to acquire. As you may know depending on the setup, the hearth pad can require quite a high R value (6.6). I've been reading online quite a bit in the past few days and it's become clear that it is difficult to attain such values without a hearth pad that is rather thick.
Then, browsing home depot, i came across rigid insulating foam, such as supre TUFF foam insulator and or owens coarning foamular. (home depot links embedded). These materials have R values upwards of 5 for an inch of thickness.
In all my reading over the past few days, I've not seen any one mention these materials for constructing hearth pads. Now I suppose there may be a good reason for that so I apologize if this is a silly question, but is there a reason why this stuff should not be used as one of the layers in the hearth pad? And why would that be?
Thanks very much for your wisdom!
-Jakub
My first post here. I've been researching construction of a hearthpad for a hearthstone (homestead) stove i am about to acquire. As you may know depending on the setup, the hearth pad can require quite a high R value (6.6). I've been reading online quite a bit in the past few days and it's become clear that it is difficult to attain such values without a hearth pad that is rather thick.
Then, browsing home depot, i came across rigid insulating foam, such as supre TUFF foam insulator and or owens coarning foamular. (home depot links embedded). These materials have R values upwards of 5 for an inch of thickness.
In all my reading over the past few days, I've not seen any one mention these materials for constructing hearth pads. Now I suppose there may be a good reason for that so I apologize if this is a silly question, but is there a reason why this stuff should not be used as one of the layers in the hearth pad? And why would that be?
Thanks very much for your wisdom!
-Jakub