Walker continental stove and flooring

Hello,

We are trying to finish up a remodel of our kitchen and hope to be finishing a Walker continental stove around the end of the year. But we aren't there yet , where we will be soon is the kitchen floor. Is it necessary to have tiles or mud around a Walker stove for safety reasons? Can the heat get transfered to the floor?  Grateful to any information anyone can provide.

Matt of the Walker Stove has spoken of and suggests rising the stove off the floor or onto an insulated base ----not so much as to prevent a fire hazzard ---but to stop the heat transfer into the cold floor---the base level gets to around 120 to 150 c at most on mine---a  surrounding floor up to the base   ---can be what ever you like really but a nice firm easy sweep clean surface like tile or brick , stone/concrete is good ---mines a wooden floor  ,but stove rests on a vermiculite concrete base---a ventilating spaced row of bricks with cement fiber board on top ---then stove built up on that. Because of my floor being wood i recessed a steel tread plate into it ---below the fire feed box of the stove  ---as i some times spill ash or when i am trying to add in wood onto hot coals ---bad habit i know---a few sparks can spit out----especially if i am burning spruce or pine. ---i would have liked to use a nice piece of flag stone  ---but  that would mean trying to recess the timber floor by 40mm -----or i would be tripping over it. Starting from a blank new floor would allow this feature to be built in before the stove build started.

Hi Tony and thanks for your reply. You provided exactly what I wanted to know. So a piece of metal in front of the firebix will be enough. Good.

Have a lovely day and thanks again