In the next month or so I will be installing the fireview in my main living room. I was going to install in the corner of the room, but now I have talked my wife into moving stove to the center of the room . my question is the owner's manual says that the minimum hearth pad size can be 44in D x 50in W, but is recommended to be 48in D X 60in W. I need to use the minimum hearth pad size because of my room being so small it is only 12 ft wide and 16 feet long. my plans for the hearth pad are as followed,framing with 2 X 10's and two layers of 1/2 in durarock to give me a 12in raised hearth and having 1/2in durarock and slate tile on the pad and behind the stove with a 1in airspace behind the stove so i can get the stove pushed back as close as the specs will let you which is 12inches, but anyway my question to fireview owners will this stove roast you out of a room? The sofa in this room we be about 6feet from the stove and i worry sitting on the sofa with a fire going will roast a man out there they are two bedrooms that are on the right and left sides of the living room giving some place for the heat to travel and these rooms I will mostly keep the doord open on them they are my kids rooms. what do you guys think I have got to make this thing so give some advice.
