wood burner

[johnys]

Hi new to this site, i have a wood burner and wish to add tiles to the wall surrounding it the tiles will be right againd the side of the wood burner will ceramic be ok or does it have to be porcelain, the wall does get hot infact its been hot enough to crack the plaster
John

 

[Dan]

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[DHTiling]

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[Diamond Pool Finishers]

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[diamondtiling]

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[faithhealer]

Welcome to the forum John. Sure this questions been asked before, Would have ceramic would be ok but have a search and let me know.

 

[johnys]

The jury seems to be divided on this one some say ceramic others porcelain but all agree on flexible powdered adhesive the plaster on the wall surrounding the wood burner has got cracks so it got me wondering about the tiles I want to put on, have been given 6 free samples to try so will do that, better to spoil the free sample than to tile 5sq metre and find out ceramic crack and have to rip the lot off
John

 

[davy_G]

Ive a wood burner and the walls get real hot. Make sure the walls are properly dry first, which it sounds like they are if the plaster has cracked. Would be worth removing the finish plaster and tiling onto the scratch coat if its sound. Use flexi adhesive and grout.
Speak to your tile shop re tile choice, remember they are baked in the manufacturing process but you want to make sure glazed tiles wont crack.

Good luck, oh the wood burners are great at this time of the year!

 

[doug boardley]

The jury seems to be divided on this one some say ceramic others porcelain but all agree on flexible powdered adhesive the plaster on the wall surrounding the wood burner has got cracks so it got me wondering about the tiles I want to put on, have been given 6 free samples to try so will do that, better to spoil the free sample than to tile 5sq metre and find out ceramic crack and have to rip the lot off
John

the heat won't affect your tiles Johnys, typically they will have been through a kiln twice at 800dgs Celsius +, what substrate is beneath the cracked plaster? and is the cracked plaster a skim coat as it's normal for skim to crack when it's close to a wood/solid fuel burner

 

[White Room]

I would remove the plaster and render, leave plenty of time for render to cure/dry then flexible adhesive

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

:welcome:As Whitebeam says, render is stronger than gypsum