Wood burning stove to close to wall?

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Our semi-newly purchased house has a stove in the garden office, which I think is installed far too close to the wall.




In this picture below, the top protruding bit is 35mm from the wall, and the main body is 65mm from the wall.


This graphic (source: Wood Burner Distance from Combustible Materials Explained (stoveworlduk.co.uk)) suggests 65mm clearance is ok only in the case of a heat shield and another inch behind!


We've been using this burner through the winter to keep us warm in the external office, as the electric underfloor heating costs an arm and a leg to run, even more so as of today! But today is the first time I've really though about this.

My dad's solution (rarely by the book but most of the time does the job) is to bang a sheet of this onto the walls behind it
STS Construction Board 1200 x 800 x 12mm | Wickes.co.uk

Is that too much of a bodge? The board is fire-rated, but I guess it doesn't exactly make it fire safe, and if anything I'm just bringing the wall closer to the burner.

Is my only solution to bring the stove further out into the room? There's 180mm clearance at the front of the hearth currently, I imagine eating into that probably isn't advised. Would either need to introduce a kinked flue, or rear mount?

Now wondering who was competent enough to install this thing, but reckless or stupid enough to not worry about any clearances? Or am I missing something?

 

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The office was permitted development, but he applied for permission anyway and we received the plans. The burner was shown on those, but no dimensions or clearances were shown on them.

Have contacted a local installer to come and take a look. We've never used the electrical socket in that corner.

 

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Thanks chaps. Installer couldn't managed to come round last Friday, hoping he can do sometime this week.

I think the best solution will be to bring the stove into the room a bit, and then shield the wall. If it comes out too much further into the room then it's going to be a pain, and I don't think shielding should be too prohibitive. The annoying bit might be having to extend the hearth.

 

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Bumping this as I still haven't manage to get it sorted and will need to get burning soon...

I think I need some sort of reflective heat shield, with an air gap behind.

This sort of thing looks good, but seems like silly money for 2 sheets of aluminium!

Heat Shield (Corner)

*Please be aware during busy times there may be a wait while we manufacture your heat shield* Two sheets of 2mm thick brushed aluminium heat shield for corner installations. An aluminium heat shield to fix to the wall behind your stove, protecting your wall material and reducing the distance...

anevaystoves.com

Does anyone have anything to recommend? Installer is very difficult to get hold of and didn't have a huge amount of ideas last time I spoke with him, I think I just need him for the 'moving the stove away from the wall' part, and I'll source a heat shield myself.

 

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I think even with that your not going to be strictly legal
The wooden skirting is going to be an issue

It depends really are you after making it legal or dramatically reducing the risk (consider house insurance!)

If reducing the risk either buy that or make similar.
Others make them as well its not a particularly unique item.

If your trying to make it legal your going to need the stove manual for distances to flammable items. But as I mention above your going to need to lose the skirting for sure
(those metal shields have an airgap at the bottom when installed so the air rises up drawing the heat, you would need to place in front of or above the wooden skirting, above wouldn't be improving your non compliance issue)

Thanks for the response.

Should have mentioned I am planning to remove the skirting. The plug socket has also been disconnected by electrician.

Should have also said I'm still planning to have the stove moved away from the wall. The floor is marble tile, so non-combustible, so I have 180mm to play with bringing it forward, which by my calcs gives me 170mm clearance. And by all accounts this looks sufficient if I can make the backing non-combustible.