Fire Resistant Drywall Around Fireplace

This will help to prevent the heat from traveling through other parts of the fireplace and keep the fireback in the right place.

Fire resistant drywall around fireplace.

Hardiebacker board is not designed to take the place of stone drywall or other materials used near or on your fireplace. The drywall on both fireplaces went right up to the edge with tile surround. My new zero clearance has framing within inches of the box and drywall will go right over the studs. Instead it was designed to be a subfloor or backing material for another material installed on top of it.

In order to properly protect the fireplace against heat you will now need to place a heat resistant caulking around the fireback. Finally the gypsum and fiberglass are packed tighter and denser than with regular drywall. Drywall typically comes in 1 4 inch 3 8 inch and 1 2 inch thicknesses. The 5 8 inch fire code drywall called type x increases a wall s fire rating to a minimum of 1 hour from the 30 minute rating for standard inch drywall.

In addition to the usual gypsum found in regular drywall fire rated drywall contains glass fibers to form a super tough core. There was the space between unit and walls according to code. Other than code distances for your studs i would think the drywall is fine. Type x drywall is 5 8 inches thick.

Steve miller sylvan lake mi. And it s not just thickness. Get free shipping on qualified fire resistant drywall sheets or buy online pick up in store today in the building materials department.