Multi Fuel Burner

Apodemus

ThisIsWeird said:

FreeBear said:

ThisIsWeird said: I did build a chimney breast for sil, to take a slightly larger, 5kW, fire, sides, top and front finished with a double skin of normal p'board, and finished in normal skim. No cracks, no issues. I did, tho', line the back with the heatproof board as per the instructions. 

Plasterboard is not rated as fireproof, so should never be used close to a stove.

A giant pile of poo...

Ironically this is the correct answer to the OP's problem!     Traditionally, chimneys were "parged" using a mix of lime and cow dung, to give a heat and fire-resistant lining.

ThisIsWeird

I should make it clear that I like FB, find him hugely knowledgeable, and trust he'll take that comment in the jocular manner it was intended.

I have my logs stacked up with barely an inch between then and the slightly larger stove than the OP's, and they are barely warm. I know it's 'silly', but I'm just going by the practicalities of - they are simply not going to burst into flames.

The OP's plaster skim seems surprisingly vulnerable for some reason. Slight expansion movement in the bricks, I guess?

Primmie

Thankyou I do appreciate all the comments and do feel reassured.

NeverTooLate

ThisIsWeird said:

I have my logs stacked up with barely an inch between then and the slightly larger stove than the OP's, and they are barely warm. I know it's 'silly', but I'm just going by the practicalities of - they are simply not going to burst into flames.

We did this until one day there was smoke in the room and I couldn't understand how it was getting out of the log burner - it wasn't, the logs stacked either side of the burner were gently smoking 

ThisIsWeird

NeverTooLate said:

ThisIsWeird said:

I have my logs stacked up with barely an inch between then and the slightly larger stove than the OP's, and they are barely warm. I know it's 'silly', but I'm just going by the practicalities of - they are simply not going to burst into flames.

We did this until one day there was smoke in the room and I couldn't understand how it was getting out of the log burner - it wasn't, the logs stacked either side of the burner were gently smoking 

Ok, they are going to burst into flames... Will move them another inch. Ta.