Home Garden
# Home & Garden >> Home Repair & Maintenance >> Floor Repairs

How to Make a Hearth Floor for a Franklin Wood Stove Fireplace

Benjamin Franklin earns the credit for inventing one of the earliest wood stoves, even though other inventors were designing new features for the traditional fireplace years before him. Despite the variations, they almost all used cast iron to construct their fireplace modifications. Iron conducts heat well. Although most people realize the surrounding walls need to be fireproof, they also need to give careful consideration to the floor under the Franklin fireplace. Heat radiates and sparks fall consistently when you use the stove, and any combustible floor material is in danger of starting house fires.

Things You'll Need

  • Fireproof millboard
  • 24-gauge steel
  • 1-inch clay tiles
  • Mortar
  • Trowel
  • Wood framing
  • Trim nails
  • Hammer
Show More

Instructions

    • 1

      Clear out all of the objects within 36 inches of the Franklin fireplace or stove. Even if you have a small room, the area around the fireplace needs to be free from furniture or clutter.

    • 2

      Cut a piece of fireproof millboard to fit under your Franklin fireplace if you do not have it installed on a stone fireplace hearth. Measure the width and depth of the stove and add at least 24 inches to the depth (6 for the back and 18 for the front) and 12 inches to the width (at least 6 inches extra on either side). Use these numbers as the size of your fireproof millboard.

    • 3

      Lay the millboard on the floor in the position where you plan to install the Franklin fireplace. Drop a sheet of 24-gauge steel over the millboard. These layers will prevent any sparks or coals from possibly igniting the floor boards.

    • 4

      Cover the steel with 1-inch clay tiles. Set them in place without mortar to find a pattern you like and then use mortar to cement them together on the bottom and the sides. Use a trowel and leave 1/4-inch gaps between the tiles.

    • 5

      Frame out the edge of the tiles with wood molding and trim nails to finish off the hearth. This framework along with the weight of the tiles and stove will anchor the millboard and steel to the floor.

Previous:

Next:

Floor Repairs
  1. How to Make Scented Oils for a Wood Stove
  2. How Make a Fireplace Bellows
  3. How to Design a Hearth for a Wood Stove
  4. How to Build a Limestone Surround for a Wood Stove
  5. How to Make a Block Off Plate for a Wood Stove
  6. How to Build a Brick Hearth for a Wood Stove
  7. How to Make Plans for a Wood Fireplace
  8. How to Make a Floor for a Shed
  9. How to Make Wood Flooring Nonslip
  10. How to Make My Wood Stove Hotter
  11. How to Make a T-molding
  12. How to Make an Oil Drip for a Wood Stove

Home Garden © https://www.98905.com