Heat-resistant household paint?
David Jenkins - 3/10/12 at 02:35 PM
Here's one for the LCB know-it-alls... 
We have a wood-burner in the living room; it is free-standing with a flue pipe that goes up a couple of feet then out through the wall at 45 degrees.
This works really well and we're really pleased with it... but... the wall behind the stove was repainted a year or so back, with normal domestic
emulsion. This is now blistering off in a few places due to the heat.
Does anyone know of a heat-resistant wall paint that comes in the usual range of colours?
The alternative is to put tiles behind the stove, but I'm not very enthusiastic - and I can't think of what would be appropriate anyway.
[Edited on 3/10/12 by David Jenkins]
mcerd1 - 3/10/12 at 02:51 PM
could you wrap the pipe in something heatproof and maybe make it into a double walled pipe to make it look neat ?
mookaloid - 3/10/12 at 03:04 PM
I think you will be struggling to get what you want there.
either fit a cool walled flue or fit tiles round it or keep painting it.
You will probably find that the heat will also crumble the plaster with the heating and cooling after a while too.
David Jenkins - 3/10/12 at 03:14 PM
Double-walled flue is going to be difficult...
The original paint was OK - it had been there for ages and didn't bubble at all. The newer stuff is the usual vinyl-based paint, and it's
behaving like I've aimed a hot-air paint stripper at it - I guess the high plastic content is what's making it bubble.
Maybe I need an old-fashioned emulsion... or maybe a lime-wash!
bobinspain - 3/10/12 at 03:35 PM
I assume the flue is matt-black and thus is an efficient 'black-body-radiator.
Fitting an outer shroud, I appreciate you say it's 'difficult' would, in any event impair the efficiency of the heat-radiation of the
flue. That being so, is there any way you can re-direct the radiated heat? A stainless or copper/brass backplate might do the job, and it should be
possible to make it aesthetically pleasing/acceptable.
We had a 7kw 'jetmaster' in our place in UK. Burned anthracite 'n' oak on it. Fearsome hot ! The oak lintel above the fireplace,
we protected with asbestos-substitute board, but that was out of sight. The rest of the entire inglenook was old brick with horse-hair/lime mortar.(no
paint).
Good luck.
I've edited because a 'phantom icon' appeared from out of the blue. It does so when I use parenthesis and quotes together. An unwanted
('imbecilic' smiley face appears--see if it does it here.
[Edited on 3/10/12 by bobinspain]
owelly - 3/10/12 at 03:49 PM
Try a sheet of heat resistant Masterboard and paint it with BBQ paint.
http://www.promat.co.uk/products/fire-protection/masterboard.aspx
David Jenkins - 3/10/12 at 03:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by bobinspain
A stainless or copper/brass backplate might do the job, and it should be possible to make it aesthetically pleasing/acceptable.
A sheet of copper would look really good - but I'm not a millionaire by any means! 
Not sure I'd want to polish it every so often either...
02GF74 - 4/10/12 at 07:51 PM
don't worry about it - just repaint the wall when you come to sell the house.
David Jenkins - 4/10/12 at 08:42 PM
quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
don't worry about it - just repaint the wall when you come to sell the house.
That's my kind of thinking! 
(unfortunately my wife doesn't subscribe to that philosophy...)
bobinspain - 5/10/12 at 07:13 AM
quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
quote:
Originally posted by bobinspain
A stainless or copper/brass backplate might do the job, and it should be possible to make it aesthetically pleasing/acceptable.
A sheet of copper would look really good - but I'm not a millionaire by any means!
Not sure I'd want to polish it every so often either...
David,
It (copper) gets a really burnished look to it. Besides. it'll keep 'er indoors happy, and she feels so inclined, she can polish it eh?