Does anyone know if i can burn old laminate flooring in a woodburner or bonfire.
Can you burn laminate flooring in a wood stove.
Even though laminate flooring consists of 80 wood they cannot be safely burnt or incinerated like other wood products.
However you should consider a number of things.
The stove s legs should be large enough in order to reduce the point load on your laminate floor.
Yes you can lay engineered wood or laminate flooring over tile if the tile is in decent shape.
Advertisement if your walls are combustible you can install a shield on a wall to reduce the stove s clearance area.
3 november 2009 at 8 01pm.
Just worried it might give off fumes.
It ll help keep spills from getting into the joints and under the boards which can eventually cause buckling as well as deteriorate them faster.
Ah for the old days when they made things properly.
First if you re putting laminate in the kitchen buy a small bottle of tongue and groove flooring glue.
My dad has an old cast iron wood burning stove has been putting anything that burns mdf chipboard logs etc in it for 20 yrs without issue.
Don t place a wood stove in the basement because it will lose heat and immediately ruin the laminate floor.
Indoordoctor can test your air to quantify harmful chemicals in the air associated from improper burning of wood.
The wood heat organization recommends setting the floor pad so that it s flush with the surrounding flooring you don t want to remove a fire hazard but create a tripping hazard.
Stove clearance advice the minimum safe distance between a wood stove and surrounding walls and floors.
Make sure it s one that is moisture proof or resistant and glue all your joints.
The top layer contains an aluminum oxide coating that would burn into the air which can be harmful if breathed in.
Loose cracked tiles will cause your install to fail.
Make sure the contact surface for each leg measures at least 4 square inches 2x2 inches or 25 cm 5x5 cm.