How do I keep the pets off my wood stove?

Placing your pet’s treats, toys and bedding a safe distance away from the fireplace or stove is a good way to prevent your pet from being burned by hot embers. Even if you have metal curtains or glass doors on your fireplace or stove, hot sparks can escape when you add new logs or stoke the fire.

How do I protect my baby from wood burning stove?

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Child safety gate offers protection from the heat and fire of fireplaces, wood burning stoves and barbecues.
Guards against sharp corners, hard, rough hearth surfaces and flames.
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What do you put under a wood burning stove?

Wood stoves need a heat-resistant pad underneath to protect the house from excessive heat and flames. The pad should extend at least 18 inches past all sides of the stove, but check your model to learn whether it requires a larger pad.

Are wood fires bad for dogs?

Never leave pets alone around fire — if a fireplace or wood stove is burning and you leave the room, take them with you. Even if your fireplace has a mesh covering or glass doors, pets can still get burns from coming into contact with those hot surfaces.

Why does my dog lay in front of the fireplace?

Do you worry that your hearth loving dog might be getting too hot? Dogs, as well as being creatures of habit, can be very stubborn. They will lay by the fireplace until they start panting because they appear to be getting overheated and still won’t move. Dogs are warm blooded and tolerate heat much better than humans.

How do you permanently close a chimney?

However, if you want to permanently close up your chimney, cutting out a foam insulation plug and placing it in the bottom of the chimney and caulking around it is the best method. You can also seal the edges with foam weatherstripping tape, too.

Are wood burning stoves safe for children?

“It is recommended that people living with those particularly susceptible to air pollution, such as children, the elderly or vulnerable, avoid using wood-burning stoves. If people want to use them, we recommend minimising the time the stove is open during lighting or refuelling.”

How do I keep my child off the wood stove?

Nothing beats adult supervision; however, an indoor barrier can help to keep little ones away from the stove. Look online or in home stores for a made-to-code, versatile, indoor-fence system to place around the heating appliance. Most barriers come with a swing-open gate for passage.

Can a wood stove sit on concrete?

WOOD-BURNING stoves provide two kinds of heat: radiated and conducted. This is why placement of a wood stove is so important, and why simply setting it on or next to a noncombustible surface, such as concrete or brick, may not be enough: It can still conduct heat to the surface beneath, and that surface may burn.

What should I put on my wall to protect my wood stove?

The WoodEze Wall Boards are constructed the same as their hearth pads. They provide a shield between the stove and the wall to protect the wall from the high temperature heat output. To install a wall board you should have spacers to install on the wall to keep an open space 1’’ think for air to flow through.

Can a wood stove be placed on a flat wall?

Hearth pads are sections of fireproof material that can be used underneath wood, pellet and gas stoves to protect floors from sparks and embers. Hearth pads are available for corner installations or installations where the wood stove is placed in the middle of a room or near a flat wall.

Why is it important to protect floor with wood stove?

Protecting the floor surface under and surrounding your wood stove is very important because of the heat that radiates from the stove and also the potential for hot ember to land on the combustible materials.

Do you have to have clearance for wood stove?

Wood stoves have minimum clearances that have to be met to consider the installation safe. These clearances will be specified by the manufacturer in the owner’s manual or installation guide. Sometimes you need other options so that you can lessen the clearance needed to a wall.

Is it safe to move a heavy woodstove?

We promote the EFFICIENT, RESPONSIBLE, CLEAN and SAFE use of all fuels, whether renewable or fossil. For you guys that have muscled heavy woodstoves into a house, what do you use to help you lift/carry/move the stove? Sure its going to take multiple people but is there moving straps or something that can make the job safer and easier?