Heat resistant barrier

fealeranger

Hi folks,
I have a situation at the moment and I don't know if I can resolve this easily but I will see if someone has encountered this before. The situation is as follows. I have a stove in the corner of the kitchen. The stove is inserted at an angle so as to face into the middle of the room. The room is rectangular so no odd shapes or anything complicated. The exhaust pipe exiting the stove will be placed on top of the stove and piped to exit the wall over the stove. That is my set up now for the problem. I want to put an oak shelf/mantal into the corner over the stove. The regulation is 2 foot clearance from the top of the stove pipe which would mean the shelf would be up only inches from the ceiling. Is there a product on the market or a method of putting a heat barrier between the shelf and the pipe to allow me to put in the shelf/mantal without a fire safety hazard. All ideas welcome as I really don't know what I can do to fix this issue short of leaving the shelf out completly.
Cheers:).

Poor Uncle Tom

Can you not take the flue pipe out from the rear of the stove, it doesn't have to be from the top.

fealeranger

If possible I am trying to avoid the back door route and see if there is a solution to exiting through the top of the stove. I don't know if can come out through the back of the stove due to pipes in the way. I will look again and see if it is possible. It would also look terrible exiting the back of the stove to get to the chimney breast and would involve lots of 45 bends.

Poor Uncle Tom

If you are bringing the pipe out the top, you could offset it back into the corner directly over the stove, then metal stud on both walls with fireboard on the diagonal between both. This would give you a flat wall area, with the flue behind, to put your mantle on.