Imperial Manufacturing Wall Shield Spacing Kit, Assorted

Not the ones I thought, but I can make them work ;)

These spacers are 1" long sawn sections of aluminum tubing, about 1" diameter. NOT CERAMIC. The cuts are square and clean, although the edges haven't been deburred and have shavings stuck to them. Perfectly functional product, but minus one star for not making it quite clear that they are not ceramic, when it's very easy to assume they are.Strictly speaking, the description does not say they *are* ceramic, and they are adequate as far as spacers go. But there's also no way to know they're not, and they come up when you search for ceramic spacers all the same. Given that ceramic is an actual insulator, and aluminum is a fantastically good conductor, this seems an important detail.

I bought these and a backer board to put behind my wood stove so I met code for an inspection. They were a lot cheaper than some of the others I found. The quality looks good with the exception of the drywall anchors. I would recommend swapping these out and going for the course thread screw in anchors. As a hint for installing, drive the screw through the backer board so you can place the spacer on. Do this for all of them before you start attaching to the wall. It is impossible to get the spacers on after you start attaching to the wall.

Could have been better designed for the price, the spacers are just lightweight aluminum tubes that are somewhat difficult to install unless you have at least 2 other sets of hands helping you. A small amount of adhesive on the end of the tubes would have been a great help!!

Excellent quality. All parts are strong and worked extremely well during my stove board install.

The product works for what it's made for however in shipping it was damaged and several corners. Otherwise I would have given it a higher rating

exactly as it should be. ive had my stove pipe at 600 degrees and it is 14 inches from the metal heat shield. the face of the heat shield is way too hot to touch. but the wood and the back side of the heat shield is cool to the touch. very easy to install and works great!

I used some "cement board" on the walls with these spacers holding the gap and they worked perfectly. I've used them almost a year now and I'm very happy with the stability.