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  • Stove hearth flush regs?
  • BigEls
    Free Member

    Putting in a hearth which I want to be flush level with existing floor height. There is an existing solid concrete construction hearth under the floor.
    Can I make the hearth flush with floor level and pass building regs or HEATAS regs?
    Answers I have looked up are conflicting?

    tjagain
    Full Member

    My understanding is not – but I did anyway and when I come to sell I will just say it was an existing one.

    jam-bo
    Full Member

    I have no hearth. The limestone floor extends into the chimney recess and under the woodburner. It’s signed of by a HETAS accredited company.

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    slackalice
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    It used to be a distance from the stove minimum of 300mm of non-combustible material, I don’t remember there being any conditions as to whether this non-combustible surface (ie hearth) be flush or raised. It’s been a few years since I last fitted stoves.

    If it were in my home, I’d just ensure I had that 300mm before the carpet or wood floor.

    Blazin-saddles
    Free Member

    Mine is a 20mm slate tile hearth practically flush with an engineered oak floor. The way I understood it, as long as it was 12mm thick none combustible, extended 300mm from front of burner and was clearly defined, you’re in.

    granny_ring
    Full Member

    From memory when I did ours a few years ago I thought the hearth had to be a certain height above floor level, 25-30mm maybe…?

    gobuchul
    Free Member

    It can be flush.

    Regs guidance

    The full document J can be downloaded here. Document J

    Page 38 Para 2.26 – Indicates that a change of level is a way of indicating the boundary of the hearth but doesn’t actually stipulate that it must be done.

    sharkbait
    Free Member

    Yeah, can be flush.
    Some people just have a large piece of glass sat on the carpet!
    300mm minimum from the opening of the stove (not necessarily the front if the stove) to the edge of the hearth though.

    bedmaker
    Full Member

    Yes, it can be flush, but they like some sort of mark to create a sort of boundary.
    Could be different coloured tiles, a strip set into the floor, that sort of thing.

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