wood burning stove and wallpaper

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Does anyone know if you can put wallpaper on the chimney breast if there is a wood burning stove there.

I have just carefully painted our whole lounge, leaving the chimney breast to be papered. We are getting a wood burning stove fitted and it just struck me that there might be a problem with it being a combustible material - a quick google search hasn't helped, does anyone know?

thanks

I would ask the person fitting the stove. I have no specialist knowledge other than my dad having a stove, but my gut feeling is that you would probably be ok from a combustible point of view (the chimney shouldn't be hot enough to burn things on contact and if it comes to that, paint is a combustible material isn't it?)

However I suppose that some types of paper might be more suitable than others - and some kinds might be too delicate for the heat. IME the chimney gets about as hot as a radiator if that's any help.

Parents have this with no problem - if your chimney breast gets that hot there is something definitely wrong!

However if its an exposed metal flue running up the wall, thats a different case altogether.

Our chimney breast gets warm when the stove is full on. I guess you will have to check the paste and the paper you use. But, it may get grubby fairly quickly...

thanks, i will check, fitter is coming round friday, will have to wait till then before we decide to paper or not. I just got about 30 samples and am impatient to choose and put it up!

technically I think you can't have anything combustible within a certain distance of the stove to comply with regulations. stoves burn considerably hotter than gas fires so there are quite stringent rules. Speak to the fitter (who should be hetas registered).

Yes you can. The wall may get warm but it won't get hot. If it's an enclosed stove then there will be no soot or smoke in the room so the wallpaper won't get grubby.