I posted this on another forum but thought I might get more opinions here. I'm pretty sure the clearances are all fine but I'm not sure how it's going to look. Has anyone here seen anything like this before? I'll be installing a new Ideal Steel hopefully soon. The existing hearth was too narrow and high for the IS so I started working on it without really having a good plan. I think I have it figured out but I want to make sure it's a legal install as far as clearances are concerned. I'm a little concerned because I haven't been able to find any pictures of anything quite like this. I don't know if there are some minimum clearances to non combustibles or maybe it will just look funny with the hearth split with the stove in the middle. I only want to do the job once. A description of what I plan on doing is below and pics are attached. The stove will sit in front of the fireplace. The firebox of the the existing fireplace and the hearth are about 11 inches above the floor. The hearth supports the field stone wall that makes up the fireplace face. Because of this I can't remove the entire hearth. As you can see in the pic I removed some of the hearth and bottom of the firebox. I plan on rebuilding the hearth on both sides of the firebox to line up with the firebox and leave a 36 inch wide space for the stove, The fireplace and hearth are all non combustible material. I will use bluestone on the floor and mantle. The rear of the stove will sit 4-6 inches from the wall below the fireplaces firebox. Thanks for your help.
Do you have the spec sheet for the stove? Do all the clearances and thermal resistances comply? What is behind and under the cement board? Need more information to be helpful... KaptJaq
Here is the instruction manual for the Ideal. More information is needed to ascertain if what you are doing will work. At first glance, the channel cut into the carpet may be too narrow. Carpet and wood stoves to do not get along.
The distance from the fireplaces firebox to the carpet is 47 inches and the cement board is 42 inches wide. There should be qbout 18 inches of bluestone from the front of the stove body to the carpet. The stove requires a hearth pad with at least a .41 R value. The cement board is .39 and I figure the bluestone and whatever it gets set in will make up the other .02. Between the cement board and the fireplace is just a concrete floor. I assumed it was non combustible. If I remember correctly, from the basement you can only see the plywood form underneath it. Also, how do you think this will look? I have a hard time picturing the stove sitting between the two pieces of the hearth.
I would have had to do something similar to get the IS to fit on my hearth, the wife nixed it and I got the PH, hard to tell how it will look without seeing the whole room, personally I thought mine would have looked ok but we're both happy with the PH.
