youthoftoday Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 The "Stoves in Boats" guide is full of all kinds of useful numerical suggestions about dimensions for stove and hearth fitting, but baulks at the lip of the heart, suggesting a hearth should have a high lip What does this mean? 5cm? 10cm? 15? Why don't the recommend a dimension? What size is yours? What would you recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0atman Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Mine does not have a hearth lip . A relevant distance would be edge of hearth from front of fire as coals etc. can bounce when they fall out. However you are there opening door so always have shovel to hand to scoop up any ember that trys to escape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machpoint005 Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 About 5mm in the case of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackman Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 It may be worth leaving a small gap to allow the hearth to be swept out, if the regs will allow this. Vacuuming where there might be hot stuff isn't a good idea, but if there's no gap in the lip it's very hard to clean properly with a brush and pan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stilllearning Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 We have an Invicta woodburner in the kitchen. It has next to no lip so that as you open the door, it carefully deposits a quantity of ash or embers on the floor. Partly because of that, we are in the middle of having a new system fitted, with an MBS thermovulkan plus, which is as big as it sounds. And has a good lip at the front of the fire basket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjasmith Posted October 23, 2014 Report Share Posted October 23, 2014 Once again, this is where a look at the full BS 8511 document gives much more info than the Soliftec drawing which is just a precis of it. The Soliftec drg at least is free to look at but 8511 either costs an arm and a leg or requires you to go through many hoops to get access to a copy! From my studies of it (after I went through the hoops!), there is a trade off between hearth area size and upstand (lip) height. The upstand can be zero for 225mm distance from hearth front edge to stove front, but if it is increased to 12mm, 25mm or 50mm the hearth front edge to stove front distance can be reduced to 200mm, 150mm or 100mm respectively. Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymondh Posted October 26, 2014 Report Share Posted October 26, 2014 Hi, Info re lip heights etc inc drawings http://www.naturalfires.net/MorsoBoatFlueInstructions.pdf Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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