Thread: Heat proof material

I would say you must seek professional advice for this, you need some warranted advise and product. When I lived in Japan about 12 years ago, there was a spate of unexplained house fires that were eventually tracked down to carbonization (charcoal formation) of wood behind stoves and heaters. Charcoal has a much lower ignition temperature than wood, once the wood converts to charcoal, it'll eventually catch fire.
scared you enough?


Cheers
Michael

you used to be able to get heat proof fibro cement sheeting we put it above the gass watter heater under our house to stop teh heat burning teh floor.

Gyprock FlamechekMR™ plasterboard

https://www.woodworkforums.com/newrep...ote=1&p=905354

Thanks to both of you, will do some more research on this

Another way is to create a baffle set off the MDF. Get some aluminium sheet and some aluminium tube and cut the tube into 25mm lengths and get some screws long enough to screw into the MDF and go through the aluminum sheet and the tubes and set the sheet off the wall to create an air gap between the MDF and the aluminium sheet.


Allow the sheet to extend about 200mm past the edge of the heater and run it up behind the flue extending about 100mm each side of the edge of the flue.


This is how I used to protect roof timbers when installing heaters.

Thanks, but have decided on using Hebel blocks, as they are heatproof, and are the perfect size, 600mmW x 200mmH x 75mmD and only $4.90 each, the Flamechek plasterboard I have been told by hardware store is fire proof, not heat proof.