Jotul Fireplace Stove #3

[sergio]

We have access to a Jotul Fireplace Stove #3 that used to be installed in my brother's fireplace. We are considering installing it in or in front of our masonry fireplace built in 1988. The manuel shows a clearance to combustibles with 16 inches from the edge of the stove to the trim. The diagram also titles the picture with a fireplace heat shield and another similar diagram lable in front of the fireplace. Does anyone know what the fireplace heat shield is. The diagram with that title doesn't show a heat shield that I can see. We are trying to figure out what we need to get and do to install it properly.

 

[gman1001]

hi there,

A heat shield can mean/be made of many things. My manual stated Jotul made a shield that fit the back of my #3 stove. Turns out it is very hard to find and if you can find it costs a MINT.

So, I went to the scrap yard paid 10 bucks for a sheet of very thick aluminum and cut it with a jig saw to fit the back of my stove. If you look close in the pic attached you can see it. I painted it with flat black stove paint and everything

It works amazingly well.

 

[sergio]

Thanks for the info. and picture. I'm not sure that would help in our situation. The sides of the mantel are 3/4" thick and in front of the brick of the fireplace. The stove ends up being about 13 inches from the edge of the wood trim on either side of the fireplace and 45" from the bottom edge of the top trim and 56" from the mantle shelf. The two diagrams in the installation guide titled "Fireplace installation with fireplace heat shield" and another "Installation in front of a masonry fireplace" both list 16" to side trim, 24" to side wall, 11 inches to top trim and 22" to mantle shelf. We are not sure how best to shield the wooden side trim. Thanks for any input.

 

[arcane]

can you give me more detail on how you attached the shield. I can see the 2 groves on the back bottom of the stove but how did yo attach it to the top to keep the spacing? did you use the top cast lip on the underside - ie it has a grove. I was planning on uising 1 or 2 shhet opf 24G steel ( i would space the 2 sheets arpert by about 1/8" as shown in the F3CB manual) the shhet would be about the width of the stove and about 18" high to fit the back

 

[gman1001]

Hi, good question. The bottom two corners of my stove had small recesses that looked like they were tailor made to hold the bottom corners of a heat shield.

So when I cut out the sheet metal, I left two 'tabs', one on each bottom corner that would rest in the stove recesses.

then the top... I lucked out. The top of the stove rubs against the top of the heatshield keeping it in place.

If it hadn't I would have just jury rigged a quickee solution that would have been hidden from general use...

Works like a charm!