Parquet and screed under the wood stove

Hi everyone,

a wood stove is also planned in our house. It will probably be a Skantherm Elements or Emotion M. They have a footprint of roughly 60*60 cm and weigh 150-250 kg. 150 kg without heat storage stones, up to 250 kg with heat storage stones.

Now our general contractor writes in his documents for the construction meeting that the screed should only be loaded with 150 kg/sqm. That seems very little to me, that would mean that two 80 kg people are not allowed to stand anywhere at a distance of 50 cm. Or more extreme, if 15 people watch the football world championship final at my home, they are not allowed to all crowd in front of the TV at the same time...

At least, I shouldn't complain if the screed cracks.

Seems a bit absurd to me! Professionally, I actually know nothing under 300 kg/sqm from steel construction, and nothing under 1000 kg/sqm from industrial floors/screed.

The general contractor probably wants to take a very safe side to always have an excuse ready later if there are cracks somewhere.

Floor buildup is as follows:

60 mm insulation
30 mm tacker panel (hook-and-loop system)
70 mm screed
15 mm parquet
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Total 175 mm

The general contractor now offers to execute the screed in the area of the stove base as screed on separating layer, i.e., without thermal and impact sound insulation. He wants 145 € for that.

On the one hand, the 154 € annoy me (even if it really does not make much difference anymore), but above all I don’t want to get sound bridges under the stove.

And now the questions:

[*]Is such a low load capacity of the screed usual?
[*]Do you have your stove standing on the normal screed, or do you have reinforced screed underneath? It is clear that underfloor heating is spared underneath.

[*]Can I also place a stove on floating parquet? I would actually like to continue the parquet, put a glass plate on it as spark protection, and then the stove on top of that.

Thanks and best regards,

Andreas

[*]Can I also place a stove on floating parquet flooring? I would actually like to continue the parquet throughout, put a glass pane on it as spark protection, and then place the stove on top.

Thanks and best regards, Andreas

It says the same for me. I also wouldn't know of anything that should speak against it.

I wouldn't do it because of edge loading. Our fireplace manufacturer specifically recommended a composite screed, which we now have – however, our fireplace weighs about 650 kg.

Heating coils, water and electrical pipes have no place there anyway.

We are also considering whether to continue the parquet flooring or lay tiles or similar underneath and around it, but with our three-sided fireplace it probably looks very bad if there is parquet all around but tiles 50 cm around the fireplace. We have an expansion joint there anyway, but it is positioned just under the fireplace and therefore not visible. And with that, the sound problem is also solved.