Posted By NUWOLED on 01 Jun 2010 05:53 PM

Does anyone know if solid surface could be used around a wood burning fireplace??

Cheers

Mathew

Mathew:

The National Fire Protection Association sets the standards by which most local codes abide. You can get to the standards for free by clicking on the standards on the sidebar on their website and playing around a bit.

Check with the appliance manufacturers installation requirements also.

I've had painted MDF trim surrounding my wood burning fireplace for eight years and it doesn't even get warm.

Joe  

It all depends on the particular fireplace, and how much, and what type wood the home owner loads up in there. I used to get my wall so hot you couldnt touch it. That means its way over 140 F.

Never burned the house down, but I had a stone facer, i.e. fireplace surround.

I hope this helps.

Knowing Lenny he was throwing whole pallets in or logs soaked in MEKP.

Hi John,

Actually it was red oak, packed to the max in the fireplace.

As long as you are not BBQing the family dinner in the fireplace I think you are OK!!

I think I recall doing that once in my younger days!!

Cheers

Mathew

Kowboy , thanks for the info I will do some reading

Posted By NUWOLED on 02 Jun 2010 04:35 PM
Kowboy , thanks for the info I will do some reading

Mathew:

It was my pleasure, I'm always glad to help.

Joe

We were recently asked to do a wood stove hearth in Solid surface.  I invited the customer over and threw some small burning embers on a sink cut out.

I then tried to sand out the white spots. No luck there.  Probably fine on the back wall with and air space behind but not on the horizontal out front.  IMO

While most don't let embers burst out onto the hearth/floor, some do. Sometimes you have to help save customers from themselves.

My parents put corian around a gas fireplace, but I am not sure the seams would hold up if the fireplace got too hot.

When I was building the inspectors would only allow metal, stone, or tile within 8" - 12" of the wood burning firebox opening. They were very strict about that. Of course, if you are not pulling permit or getting inspections I suppose you could do whatever you wanted.

I mostly used Isokern fireboxes and they put off some serious heat, but you would probably be fine with a metal box. I found a picture of one remodel I did where we got away with 8"clearance on a true masonry box.

I think slid surface would hold up fine in most applications depending on seam placement.

Hi Sam, nice to see you here.

Johnny C