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Vitcas High Temperature Plasterboard

  • 15-11-2015 1:46pm
    #1
    Vote 4 Pedro
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    Please can someone help.

    I'm worried about my Timber framed house safety in respect to stove installation.

    We had a 8kw room heater stove fitted a week ago and we are getting Thin stone cladding (approx 1" thick) behind the stove floor to ceiling.

    So the finished make up is to be original timber stud work with vitcas board screwed directly on to the stud, very light steel mesh (I think it's steel)
    screwed through the vitcas to the stud with the 1" stone cladding adhered to the mesh,
    Will this be safe.

    Were taking out the original plasterboard and fitting Vitcas fire board in it's place behind the stove, no skim or finish as the stone cladding needs a mesh screwing to the wall to support the weight and then the stone cladding will be the final finish.

    Does the Vitcas board stop heat transference, ie. will the timber stud work behind the vitcas board be safe.
    I'm asking this because I have lit a few small fires in the stove since it was fitted and the original plasterboard was to hot to touch and I was expecting it to be so and I was never planning on leaving it unprotected.

    Then as a basic test I just placed the Vitcas boards in loosely behind the stove and lit another smallish fire and as expected the vitcas board got very hot just the same as the plasterboard did but I was surprised at the back of the vitcas board it was just as hot.. I was expecting it to stop or reduce the heat getting through. The vitcas board is 12mm thick and has 1 very smooth side and 1 not so smooth, is there a right way to have it, a front,

    So my question is will it be safe when finished...

    Thanks in advance for any help

    Vitcas High Temperature Plasterboard link.
    http://www.hamco.ie/products/item/58-high-temperature-plasterboard

    Just to add, the stove was fitted by a professional and he was very particular about spacings etc. he fitted fire stops, a room vent and a carbon monoxide sensor as well.


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