if you are installing a stove yourself, then you should have read up on the regulations beforehand? Of course, if you have wall material that can burn, you should have some form of protection, but at the same time, there are lots of other rules to comply with that you might not be thinking about either............Even the floor must be protected, there are minimum distances here and there, and the chimney can't go just any way, etc., etc..........
Here you can read more:
http://www.kaminexperten.se/dok/byggregler.pdf
Here you can read more:
http://www.kaminexperten.se/dok/byggregler.pdf
I'm really just swapping a kitchen stove for a wood-burning stove, so there shouldn't be any problems with the chimney. According to the stove manufacturer, there should be a safety distance of 20 cm to the back, but the question is whether the wallpaper can handle it, it could get quite hot before there's a risk of it catching fire.
In the long term, the wallpaper might get discolored by the heat. Or...might and might...it will do it, slowly but surely. So I wouldn't choose wallpaper as my first option; if it has to be a surface other than metal/stone, I would choose to paint... It's easier to scrub clean, and easier to touch up when it starts to look discolored.
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· Norrbotten
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Wallpaper is a combustible material. And the distance to combustible materials depends on the outer temperature of your stove. It varies with different stoves (insulated or not, i.e., below or over 80 degrees). See for example here http://www.umesotning.se/?expand=1&pageID=9&subpageID=42
Depending on the conditions, a distance of 500 mm may be required.
Depending on the conditions, a distance of 500 mm may be required.