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I recently bought a project boat to do up. One of the jobs was to replace the grubby white tiles surrounding the pot belly stove. When I chipped the tiles off I was amazed to find that the fire board was in fact 'chipboard' I think you will agree the previous owner was living on borrowed time. Its actually burnt through the forward bulkhead.

 

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None of this was visible when the old tiles where in place, it was a disaster waiting to happen.

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One of my next jobs on The Life of Riley. What to use? Masterboard? Who sells it cheap?

How about that Aquaboard that Wickes sell?

 

I do not know about Aquaboard, but our B&Q sells small sheets of a white heat resistant board and I used it behind the tiles last summer.

 

One of the "tile backs" splits to give access to my tool & bits cupboard and so far the B&Q stuff seems to be doing its job well.

 

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Nasty scenarios! Borrowed time indeed.

 

I used masterboard bought from my local chandlery - don't know where to get it cheap, but it's not that expensive in the scheme of things. If you're going to tile over it (I used metal sheet instead), remember to brush a coat of PVA or other specialist pre-tiling treatment over it before you start. Masterboard is very porus and may render your tile adhesive useless if you don't.

 

It might be OTT but I have masterboard running right up the wall behind the flue as well, and of course around the flue where it penetrates the ceiling.

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Nasty scenarios! Borrowed time indeed.

 

I used masterboard bought from my local chandlery - don't know where to get it cheap, but it's not that expensive in the scheme of things. If you're going to tile over it (I used metal sheet instead), remember to brush a coat of PVA or other specialist pre-tiling treatment over it before you start. Masterboard is very porus and may render your tile adhesive useless if you don't.

 

It might be OTT but I have masterboard running right up the wall behind the flue as well, and of course around the flue where it penetrates the ceiling.

I am cosidering doing that too at a later date.

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It'd be interesting to know if there is a fault in the stove, such as a break in the seal between the two halves of the body. From the position of the burn it looks likely that it started along a joint in the tiles. This might be something to watch out for with pot bellied stoves or other stoves made in the same way.

 

Obviously a fireproof backing to the tiles would have prevented the backing from burning but just how much heat can those backings take before whatever is behind them becomes hot too?

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I recently bought a project boat to do up. One of the jobs was to replace the grubby white tiles surrounding the pot belly stove. When I chipped the tiles off I was amazed to find that the fire board was in fact 'chipboard' I think you will agree the previous owner was living on borrowed time. Its actually burnt through the forward bulkhead.

 

boat002.jpg

boat001.jpg

boat004.jpg

 

None of this was visible when the old tiles where in place, it was a disaster waiting to happen.

 

 

Looks to me like the stove has been mounted too close to the bulkhead behind which has not helped, and its a big stove as well, possibly oversized for a narrowboat

 

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The picture is quite deceiving, the stove isn't that big, however, like most pot belly stoves, there’s no fire bricks in side, so the heat radiates out 360 degrees. The other common problem with these stoves, they have gaps every where and unless you go around and seal the lot with fire cement, the fire just burns away and the heat is immense. The other thing you will notice with the picture is the panel to the right missing, when fitted , (and its a tight fit),this may have saved this blokes bacon, as the fire damage might have had its oxygen starved.

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Looks to me like the stove has been mounted too close to the bulkhead behind which has not helped, and its a big stove as well, possibly oversized for a narrowboat

 

Charles

 

You may be right - there is a rule "the intensity of radiated heat is inversely proportional to the distance" meaning if you double the distance the radiated heat is reduced to a quarter

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All I can say is, forgive them lord, they know not what they do......

Haha, yeah, you should mail the photos to the prevous owners.

 

- Just stick them all in a plan envolope, with just the words "borrowed time?"

 

 

 

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You may be right - there is a rule "the intensity of radiated heat is inversely proportional to the distance" meaning if you double the distance the radiated heat is reduced to a quarter

 

Sorry to be picky but you should say "The square of the distance" that makes the maths right!

 

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Sorry to be picky but you should say "The square of the distance" that makes the maths right!

 

<_<

 

Nick

 

or to be really picky it's called the inverse square rule

 

the end result is the same though

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