Woodstock Fireview 205 Rebuild

[begreen]

Clean the gap as best possible before cementing. I suggest getting a tube or two of Hearthstone's fiber-based cement. It's meant for stone.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I wonder if a thick bore syringe could get the cement down into the crack and you could pump enough in to seal.

 

[begreen]

That's the idea with a caulking gun. They sell the Hearthstone cement in caulking tubes and tubs. That should fill the gap.

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[Todd]

A caulk gun works great as long as you take the air duct baffle out. It’s tough getting to it through the door but it’s doable. I just used a tube of Red Devil furnace cement I had to patch it. I’ll get the good stuff this Summer and redo it right unless this keeps being an issue.

 

[John Lehet]

Neither Woodstock nor Hearthstone do it, but when I built my Tulikivi, and all Tulikivis built, use soapstone dust mixed with waterglass (Sodium Silicate). It expands and contracts at the same rate as the stone, and it doesn’t have any trouble sticking to the stone. In my 15 years with the Tulikivi, there was no degradation in any of the mortar joints. I don’t know why they don’t use it in woodstoves, but there’s probably some reason. I actually have some jars of soapstone dust and a jug of waterglass around. I was going to use it on the two joints between my three soapstone slabs of my hearth (salvaged lab bench tops). But they are sitting on rock wool, so they move when I walk on them, never did the grout.

The Progress doesn’t seem to use any kind of cement between any of the soapstone pieces as far as I can tell.

 

[Todd]

Neither Woodstock nor Hearthstone do it, but when I built my Tulikivi, and all Tulikivis built, use soapstone dust mixed with waterglass (Sodium Silicate). It expands and contracts at the same rate as the stone, and it doesn’t have any trouble sticking to the stone. In my 15 years with the Tulikivi, there was no degradation in any of the mortar joints. I don’t know why they don’t use it in woodstoves, but there’s probably some reason. I actually have some jars of soapstone dust and a jug of waterglass around. I was going to use it on the two joints between my three soapstone slabs of my hearth (salvaged lab bench tops). But they are sitting on rock wool, so they move when I walk on them, never did the grout.

The Progress doesn’t seem to use any kind of cement between any of the soapstone pieces as far as I can tell.

I was told by Woodstock that their cement was a special mix with soapstone dust but it may be different than what Tulikivi uses. These soapstone stoves have cast iron splines and parts touching the stone. Some places there are gaskets between but others not. I don’t think Tulikivi has any metal except the doors and clean outs so it could be a totally different cement?

 

[John Lehet]

Yeah, the only other metal in mine was stout U pins in holes and channels, between all blocks, tying them together. It wasn't "cement" as such at all, but off the shelf waterglass mixed with soapstone dust. If I remember, they came separate -- bunch of powder, jug of sodium silicate. Mix and use. It set up as it dried, and got hard.