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What is a wood stove heat shield?  Wood stoves have heat shields incorporated so that they can be installed quite close to walls and other normally combustible places. With wood stoves, heat output is unlimited, or nearly so. The stovepipe or chimney connector must also usually be installed.

With newer wood stoves, oftentimes, the stoves can be put as little as 6 inches away from the wall with no additional protection. This is because wood stove heat shields are already included as a part of the stove itself.

However, older models will need to have wood stove heat shield installed to be safe. In addition, chimneys and other accessories will need to be heat shielded as appropriate. Most new models come with this protection built in.

Newer stoves do have built-in heat shields on the bottom, too. In this case, we might need as little as one-quarter inch of ceramic tile on the floor, mostly to protect the floor itself from sparks. However, if our stove does not have such protection, we’ll need much more protection on the floor itself. In fact, at least one model of wood stove on the market requires that no combustible materials at all be placed under the stove.

First of all, we should know that we need to follow certain safety precautions when we use your wood stove. In fact, some people have bragged about what types of things they’ve burned and even that they’ve made their stoves “glow red.” This is not a good thing to have happen, since wood stoves, too, have certain precautions we need to make in order to stay safe. With a wood stove, we’ll need to burn wood, the 100% natural thing (This is as opposed to paper, particleboard, or other inappropriate materials in wood stove.