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concrete board on inset stove

  • 04-10-2014 09:00AM
    #1
    eskanw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭


    I can see that there is lots of stove questions but I can't find what I'm looking for, my husband decided to install a stove in the living room, he ripped out the open fire and duly installed the stove with a concrete board surrounding it and then the mantelpiece back up, the thing is I have tiles ordered to cover the concrete board but it gets really really hot like too hot to touch and I don't think they'll stick to it. So now he's talking about drilling a hole in the wall at the side of the chimney breast to 'let the trapped heat out,' is he talking a load of bull?? It just doesn't sound right to me. Also there is a terrible smell off it, it had been lit 5 times its like a smell of fumes but there's no smoke it gave me a headache last night I had to have the patio door open.


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  • #2
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,001 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    eskanw wrote: »
    I can see that there is lots of stove questions but I can't find what I'm looking for, my husband decided to install a stove in the living room, he ripped out the open fire and duly installed the stove with a concrete board surrounding it and then the mantelpiece back up, the thing is I have tiles ordered to cover the concrete board but it gets really really hot like too hot to touch and I don't think they'll stick to it. So now he's talking about drilling a hole in the wall at the side of the chimney breast to 'let the trapped heat out,' is he talking a load of bull?? It just doesn't sound right to me. Also there is a terrible smell off it, it had been lit 5 times its like a smell of fumes but there's no smoke it gave me a headache last night I had to have the patio door open.

    Can't answer your concrete/tiling question, but you need to light a few small fires to cure the paint on the body of the stove - I thought mine was going to poison me with the fumes, and the smoke alarm kept going off - but after five or six small-medium fires it calmed down and has been fine ever since.

    Might be too late now, but I think you're supposed to start small fires for an hour or so, then let it go cold, over the first few days, not raging infernos.

    (These were the instructions for my Inis stove, I'm assuming - but don't know for a fact - that most stoves would be something similar.)


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