rough cut lumber for ceiling above BK King

[05ramctd]

Hello all,
I am still finishing off my basement after the new stove install last year. My wife wants to put rough cut lumber on the ceiling. The ceiling is 8 foot high and I have no idea if I should be placing wood above the stove. If so and if some of you have done so can you post some pictures so I could give her some Ideas. Thanks again for the help.

 

[Grisu]

If nothing else is mentioned in the manual minimum combustible ceiling height is usually 84". Since most ceilings are drywall with paper facing they would not be really any safer than wood there. You should be good.

 

[05ramctd]

That's what I was thinking but wanted to make sure. Thanks again.

 

[Highbeam]

It's clearance to combustibles. Wood is combustible. So long as you meet the required clearances then you may use comustible material.

I have caught some flack for having a sheetrock wall 6" behind my stove. People assume you must surround a stove with bricks/rock/cement but no, you can use plywood.

 

[Michael6268]

Ditto on previous responses. Just want to add a side note. I have rough sawn wood on my ceiling above my stove and the natural convection carries the dust and dirt right up to the ceiling and it sticks there. Horrible to try to clean. Love the look though.

 

[TheRambler]

Ditto on previous responses. Just want to add a side note. I have rough sawn wood on my ceiling above my stove and the natural convection carries the dust and dirt right up to the ceiling and it sticks there. Horrible to try to clean. Love the look though.

+1 to this. I had the same issue so i ended up sanding them smooth and staining them. Made all the difference in the world in regards to cleanliness and still has that rustic feel

 

[bodhran]

I have a stucco ceiling above the wood stove and its like a jungle up there with the dust.

 

[begreen]

Rough stucco can become a dust bunny jungle for sure.

 

[05ramctd]

Thanks all for the info. I was a little worried about wood above the stove. I feel more positive as long as I meet the required clearance. Just another project, finish one start another. Guess then I will place stone veneer behind the stove then hopefully no more projects for a while.

 

[drz1050]

Sorry for a semi-thread jack here, but have a question about clearances...

Say I have a minimum clearance to combustibles of 6". Can I have a stone veneer 4" away, and the studs behind that at 6"? Even if there's no air gap between that and the studs? I'd think heat transfer through the stone would be greater than through the air, is there a conversion table somewhere?

If you put a stone veneer up, do you need to leave an air channel behind it for convective flow?

 

[begreen]

The clearance is to the nearest combustibles which would be behind the stone veneer and cement board they are set on to. You do not have to have an air channel if the stove clearance requirements are properly met or exceeded.

 

[drz1050]

Surely there's a limit to that though? I'm just trying to figure out what it would be....

To the extreme: Copper isn't combustible, but I don't think it'd be a wise idea to have a stove 6" from a wall, then fill up those 6" with a copper plate. Would look pretty cool, and take a while to heat up all that thermal mass, but once it got cooking, there would be almost no thermal loss between the stove and wall.

Is it determined by R value? What is the R value of 6" of open air?

I'm probably over-thinking this...

 

[BKVP]

Hello all,
I am still finishing off my basement after the new stove install last year. My wife wants to put rough cut lumber on the ceiling. The ceiling is 8 foot high and I have no idea if I should be placing wood above the stove. If so and if some of you have done so can you post some pictures so I could give her some Ideas. Thanks again for the help.

Howdy...

Sorry driving all day. The stove requires 49" to combustible from stove top. Check out the small type on the label and in the label reproduction inside the owners manual.

Chris

 

[Highbeam]

Howdy...

Sorry driving all day. The stove requires 49" to combustible from stove top. Check out the small type on the label and in the label reproduction inside the owners manual.

Chris

Yikes. What about the princess? I might be close to 4 feet!

 

[begreen]

Also 49" for the Princess. You should be ok unless your ceiling is 7' or lower. What is the ceiling and the hearth height?

 

[Highbeam]

Also 49" for the Princess. You should be ok unless your ceiling is 7' or lower. What is the ceiling and the hearth height?

It will be close. There is a new August 2015 manual for the princess and now they require 15' of chimney vs. 12' from before. Oh well.

The ultra is 35" tall, the hearth is 10" tall, so I need at least a 7'-10" ceiling height to get the 49". Yikes. I don't have a full 8'. Ill probably be illegal with it.

 

[begreen]

Is that 35" from the stove top or the convection deck top? I think the ceiling measurement is from the stovetop which would give you another 2-3".

 

[Highbeam]

Is that 35" from the stove top or the convection deck top? I think the ceiling measurement is from the stovetop which would give you another 2-3".

The manual says 35" to stove top. Who would have thunk that there needs to be 4 feet to the ceiling?

 

[begreen]

I'm reading 32 15/16" to stovetop.

 

[Highbeam]

Weird, is that the new manual? August 24 of 2015? They may have rounded up for the new manual.

I found 33" exactly in the January of 2015 manual.

and in this one:

(broken link removed to http://www.blazeking.com/PDF/manuals/en/wood/OM-PE%20E%20V1.08.pdf)

I find the 33" again. Can't find the 35" version, maybe I was mistakenly looking at the overall height.

 

[begreen]

The picture is from the Jan 30, 2013 version

 

[Highbeam]

The picture is from the Jan 30, 2013 version

Phew!

 

[05ramctd]

Darn thread jackers. No just kidding the more info the smarter we get. measured it tonight I am at 55.5 inches. good deal.

 

[05ramctd]

Now who wants to come install the ceiling? Just made 5 gallons of Oktoberfest and its darn good. Ice cold crackling beer So cold your teeth will crack.