Newbuild house has an electric fireplace. This mounts in a mantel which is attached directly to an outside wall, but there is no vent and no chimney.
Kinda like this, but designed by someone sober..
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are no skirting boards on at the moment, so I have access to the little gap between the plasterboard wall and the floor. Will I be able to use this gap to route wires behind the mantel, or will it get too hot ?? I assume there will be lots of heatproof gubbins behind the fire to stop the plasterboard getting messed up...