How close can you have furniture to an electric fire.

puddy

Im not talking about the ones with bars on them, I mean the nice ones with glass fronts that hang on the wall.

Our living room has a corner where there used to be a back boiler years ago. The previous owners filled in the corner, so instead of being right angles to each other, the wall on one side ends, cuts across to the next wall and continues, its probably at a 45 degree angle.

I have the sofa right at the edge of the wall, so the arm of the sofa sort of sticks out over some of the area of the filled in section (Im not being very clear am I?)

I was wondering whether to get an electric fire, jsut to take the cold off sometimes, on the wall. Theres no where else for the sofa to go and no where else for an electric fire to go.

Would it be safe?

MX5huggy

Picking a fire at random this one http://www.stovax.com/builtintothewallfires/builtinfires/built_in_electric_fires/technical_electric.aspx in the installation instructions says 1m from curtains sofa etc.

27col

You can always use a convector heater.