Ceiling Above Wood Stove

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We want to install a wood stove in one end of our shop building, which has a cement floor. The ceiling in this "room" has insulation board which has a shiny, aluminum type covering on it. Is there any reason this sheet insulation would be dangerous above the stove? Should it be removed or covered with something? The stove pipe would be about 3 feet below the ceiling. I don't want any poisonous fumes. Thank you for any advice offered.

-- Janet in Kansas (whisperingpines@terraworld.net), October 30, 2001

Answers

check you codes, but Id bet you would need a metal box, as a heat deflector,, so nothing can touch the pipe and catch fire, Ive made them for my brother out of anything handy

-- stan (sopal@net-port.com), October 30, 2001.

Several years ago when we installed out woodstove in the cellar we were concerned about the rafters getting hot with the heat...ceiling only about 6 feet high down there. My husband got the heavey duty tin foil and put it on the rafter. You could feel the heat on the foil but in back on the rafters it was cold !! Had to do that upstairs for a little while with our other woodstove against the wall. Same thing...hot on the foil and cool on the wall and it seemed to reflect the heat back into the room. Might not be a permanent solution for you but it works !! until you get the stove board or bricks done. I'd check with the insultation company also...it might not need anything else. Good Luck !!!

-- Helena (windyacs@npacc.net), October 31, 2001.

If that is the foam insulation board with foil on the outside of the foam, I would not want it too close to a stove or other hot object. It should be protected with light sheet metal and an airspace between the insulation and the sheet metal, or some other type of protection. If it is foil covered fiberglass, and is at least 3 feet away from the stove, it is probably okay. I would try to burn a sample of the insulation board, and if it will burn, it needs more protection. Just my opinion.

Jim

-- Jim (jiminwis@yahoo.com), October 31, 2001.


If you have the building insured make sure they won't cancel it. My brother-in-lay did the same thing and because he worked on cars in there and the flame of the woodstove it made his insurance invalide. Anyway he had to change the wood stove for elect. forced air heat. They live in NJ and the codes there are so strict, to get anything done its like treading water.

-- Teresa (c3ranch@socket.net), October 31, 2001.

Is this a new stove and piping? If so, do the easy thing and read the manufacturer's directions and recomendations for what the set backs from walls, ceilings, etc. should be and follow them. They're usually pretty (too?) conservative because they really have no interest in you burning your place down. If old, check the local codes. The same conservative numbers would probably be available there.

-- ray s. (mmoetc@yahoo.com), October 31, 2001.


It is a new stove and mostly new pipes, with the exception of a few sections of stainless pipes that will be outside. The stove is an inexpensive cast iron box type. This room is not where work would be done on cars, but a, hopefully, future "family room". Thank you everyone for your advice.

-- Janet in Kansas (whisperingpines@terraworld.net), November 01, 2001.

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