Cover Asbestess Sheets By Woodburner

Wood burning stoves with cook top surfaces may contain asbestos in their pads and trivets.

Cover asbestess sheets by woodburner.

Bare wood or sheetrock walls around a wood stove are fire hazards. We wondered if this 60 s era vinyl might contain asbestos and had it tested the backing does contain asbestos. It is conventional to install wall shields over fire resistant wall spacers. The best wall shields help to radiate the heat from the stove into the room.

My clients had a pipe burst causing damage to a wall ceiling and floor in their living room. Also a wood stove may have millboard cement sheet or asbestos paper and tape for insulating and fireproofing. I am working on a repair project. Corrugated asbestos cement sheets were applied in the same way that corrugated iron was applied either nailed to wooden strips bolted to the purlins or clipped directly to the purlins by clips of hoop iron or wire.

These gaskets were so common that even today contractors often refer to modern stove gaskets that contain no asbestos as asbestos rope. Older stoves may also have asbestos in door gaskets. It may also be found in insulating material around it. Currently the room is carpeted.

A fire resistant wall shield is necessary to eliminate the threat of fire. They were available in standard sheets twenty seven and a half inches wide and in lengths of four five six seven eight and ten feet. Asbestos stove gaskets sometimes called stove rope were commonly used in wood burning stoves to seal them against air leaks. Under the carpet adhered directly to the beautiful 1 1 2 original oak flooring someone laid sheet vinyl.