As I look for the right materials to build my hearth I ran across GP's Densglass Gold.
Their literature says "noncombustable". R value is 0.56 for the 1/2 inch or 0.67 for 5/8 inch. Since Micore is a bit hard to track down so far does anyone have any thoughts on this material? The material is available ay Menard's for around $25 for a 4 x 8 sheet.
Here's some links(see the "Specs/Submittals" ICC report...:
(broken link removed)
The stove manual doesn't say anything about a required R value for the hearth. I'm targeting an R around 1.5-2. Probably overkill, but that's OK by me. Most of the R will be coming from multiple layers of durock...along with the piece of galvanized flashing tucked in.
Their literature says "noncombustable". R value is 0.56 for the 1/2 inch or 0.67 for 5/8 inch. Since Micore is a bit hard to track down so far does anyone have any thoughts on this material? The material is available ay Menard's for around $25 for a 4 x 8 sheet.
Here's some links(see the "Specs/Submittals" ICC report...:
(broken link removed)
The stove manual doesn't say anything about a required R value for the hearth. I'm targeting an R around 1.5-2. Probably overkill, but that's OK by me. Most of the R will be coming from multiple layers of durock...along with the piece of galvanized flashing tucked in.
