chris French wrote:
In message , NC
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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..
http://tinyurl.com/7dkre

There 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...

I suspect it doesn't get that hot down there, but.....

However, are these mains electrical cables, or speaker or what? You
should not run mains cables behind the skirting board unprotected.

Why? do you hang pictures there?

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Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite