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Frosty Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 NICE HEAT SHIELD! You can buy magnetic spring clips and hang gloves behind the stove to dry. I "tiled" the concrete backer board standoff behind our stove with polychrome slate. I like yours better. LOTS. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommytaptap Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Any explanation of what it is made up of please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman916 Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 13 hours ago, Frosty said: NICE HEAT SHIELD! You can buy magnetic spring clips and hang gloves behind the stove to dry. I "tiled" the concrete backer board standoff behind our stove with polychrome slate. I like yours better. LOTS. Frosty The Lucky. Thanks! I like your name for it better, "heat shield" makes more sense. 8 hours ago, Tommytaptap said: Any explanation of what it is made up of please? Just 1.5" X .125 angle & 1" X .125 flat bar. And the sheets are 12 gauge I believe. I also welded in some angle under the hearth to support the weight of the stove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Is there any insulation behind the vertical section (even just some air space), or does it rely entirely on reflecting the heat back into the room to protect the wall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I have a friend who used an old slate roof to cover the walls around his woodstove, (I'd found it and told him about it stacked inside a collapsing garage that the owner wasn't interested in) Made a great place to warm up after being outside in the cold but lacked the mitten and sock drying facility... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman916 Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 2 minutes ago, JHCC said: Is there any insulation behind the vertical section (even just some air space), or does it rely entirely on reflecting the heat back into the room to protect the wall? There's some air space behind it. 4 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: I have a friend who used an old slate roof to cover the walls around his woodstove, (I'd found it and told him about it stacked inside a collapsing garage that the owner wasn't interested in) Made a great place to warm up after being outside in the cold but lacked the mitten and sock drying facility... I haven't thought much about the sock/ mitten drying abilities. Now I'm even more excited to install the stove! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Gotcha. Here's a thought: instead of the sheet steel panel, have ceramic tile or slate on the vertical section (the strapping would frame them nicely) with narrow horizontal slots at the top and the bottom. Air would enter at the bottom slot, absorb heat from the tile as it rises (cooling the wall as well), and exit through the top slot (essentially the principle of the vented Trombe wall). A friend of mine in Vermont has such an arrangement tiled into the wall behind their wood stove, but it would look great with a metal frame. (Just make sure that the frame has room to accommodate the different coefficients of expansion for the different materials.) This isn't meant as criticism, by the way: the surround looks awesome as is. I'm just thinking that if you're doing this as an item for sale, the air circulation heater could be an appealing option for the customer -- at a premium, of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Another thing I have done with *my* woodstove (whose "surround" is an adobe wall down the middle of our house) is to take some slabs of soapstone, (one is an old foot warmer, the other is a section of old lab bench top from when they were soapstone!) and placed them on my woodstove as a heat holder (and we have the pot of water for humidity on top of the soapstone) Bare steel for fast heating and the soapstone for a long slow heat after we stop feeding the stove. JHCC has a great idea and it could be designed to use quarry tile or rock tiles and designed for easy replacement of tiles (yup we had kids!) Slots for the tiles with little spring tabs to deal with the expansion contraction issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommytaptap Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I have 10 of these. They're very old tiles from a wash stand. They are in great condition, no cracks or crazing, about 3/8" thick and 6"sq. I also will buy enough brown (matches the brown in above tiles) matt quarry tiles in a similar size and thickness. Intend to mount five of these either side of my log burner vertically with the centre filled with the brown ones. Burner diagonally across the corner of wooden walled workshop so as to leave an air space behind the tiles/whatever I use for a surround to mount them in/on. I know the 'world is my lobster' for a design and topping to a frame but, I would love some input/observations/design ideas/example photos that members might have.(standing by to be mind boggled!) thanks in anticipation Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 54 minutes ago, Tommytaptap said: I have 10 of these. They're very old tiles from a wash stand. They are in great condition, no cracks or crazing, about 3/8" thick and 6"sq. I also will buy enough brown (matches the brown in above tiles) matt quarry tiles in a similar size and thickness. Intend to mount five of these either side of my log burner vertically with the centre filled with the brown ones. Burner diagonally across the corner of wooden walled workshop so as to leave an air space behind the tiles/whatever I use for a surround to mount them in/on. I know the 'world is my lobster' for a design and topping to a frame but, I would love some input/observations/design ideas/example photos that members might have.(standing by to be mind boggled!) thanks in anticipation Tom. Really nice tiles, Tom. I only have two suggestions: 1. Keep the frame fairly simple, so as not to make the whole thing too busy. 2. If you do have something more than an utterly spartan, rectilinear frame, do something that picks up one or two design elements from the tile. For example, you could make an arched rail at the top that uses the shape of the outer tan sections, and maybe put a forged rose in the middle to evoke the flowers in the pattern, like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman916 Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 2 hours ago, JHCC said: Gotcha. Here's a thought: instead of the sheet steel panel, have ceramic tile or slate on the vertical section (the strapping would frame them nicely) with narrow horizontal slots at the top and the bottom. Air would enter at the bottom slot, absorb heat from the tile as it rises (cooling the wall as well), and exit through the top slot (essentially the principle of the vented Trombe wall). A friend of mine in Vermont has such an arrangement tiled into the wall behind their wood stove, but it would look great with a metal frame. (Just make sure that the frame has room to accommodate the different coefficients of expansion for the different materials.) This isn't meant as criticism, by the way: the surround looks awesome as is. I'm just thinking that if you're doing this as an item for sale, the air circulation heater could be an appealing option for the customer -- at a premium, of course! Yeah I like that idea. I could still cut vents in the top if it were to get too hot... 22 minutes ago, JHCC said: Really nice tiles, Tom. I only have two suggestions: 1. Keep the frame fairly simple, so as not to make the whole thing too busy. 2. If you do have something more than an utterly spartan, rectilinear frame, do something that picks up one or two design elements from the tile. For example, you could make an arched rail at the top that uses the shape of the outer tan sections, and maybe put a forged rose in the middle to evoke the flowers in the pattern, like this: I like the forged rose idea, that'd be a real nice touch. What goes in the space surrounding the rose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 8 minutes ago, Ironman916 said: Yeah I like that idea. I could still cut vents in the top if it were to get too hot... You could indeed, and thank you for your correct use of the subjunctive in a conditional sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 4 hours ago, Ironman916 said: I like the forged rose idea, that'd be a real nice touch. What goes in the space surrounding the rose? Just leave it open? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 How about scent? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommytaptap Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 11 hours ago, JHCC said: Really nice tiles, Tom. I only have two suggestions: 1. Keep the frame fairly simple, so as not to make the whole thing too busy. 2. If you do have something more than an utterly spartan, rectilinear frame, do something that picks up one or two design elements from the tile. For example, you could make an arched rail at the top that uses the shape of the outer tan sections, and maybe put a forged rose in the middle to evoke the flowers in the pattern, like this: Yes JHCC. Thank you, I like that idea very much. Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman916 Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Got the stove put in over the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommytaptap Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Very well done and nicely understated too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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