3-Sided Electric Fireplaces

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Three-Sided Electric Fireplaces, and Where They Belong Three-sided electric fireplaces are open on the front and both ends, so the fire is visible from three directions. The format suits the end of a wall or a peninsula, where a flat single-sided unit would waste two of the approaches people actually walk in from. Three-sided is not see-through, and the difference decides the wall A three-sided unit is open on the front plus both ends, which manufacturers call a bay. Its open faces all look into the same space. A see-through fireplace is open on two opposite faces and lives inside a wall, so one firebox serves the rooms on either side. If the fireplace has to finish two separate rooms, only a see-through will do it, and no amount of clever placement makes a bay reach a second room. See see-through fireplaces for that shape in every fuel. Most of these reconfigure They ship with end panels that let the same fireplace be set up three-sided, as a corner with two adjacent sides open, or single-sided. That is worth knowing early, because it means the fireplace does not lock the room plan before the room plan is settled. Decide the configuration before installation, since it changes the framing. Depth settles what will fit A framed opening to the manufacturer's dimensions, deep enough for the unit, and power to the cavity. Compare the model's depth against your framing directly: a 2x4 wall gives 3.5 inches and a 2x6 gives 5.5, and a fireplace deeper than the cavity cannot recess into it. That measurement rules models out faster than anything else. There is no flue and no gas line, which is why this format can sit on an interior wall or a peninsula at all. See electric fireplaces for the wider category, or 3-sided fireplaces for gas and other fuels in the same shape.