Ortal Front Facing FR 31H Gas Fireplace

A fire that stands five feet tall. Quick Facts • Viewing Area: 31″ wide, 65″ tall • Fuel: Natural gas; propane conversion kit available. • Controls: Handheld remote with built-in thermostat; smartphone app available. • Interior Lighting: Included, dimmable from the remote. • Heat Barrier: Your choice of protective screen or double glass. Who It’s For Some walls run wide. Yours runs tall—a two-story great room, a narrow column between windows, an entry with more height than width—and every linear fireplace you’ve looked at wants space that isn’t there. You need a fire that rises instead of sprawls . If you’re building or remodeling and you want the fire to be the first thing people notice from across the room, this is your category. Choose a standard wide unit and the wall stays half empty; the Ortal Front Facing FR 31H fills it, floor to eye level and beyond . What Makes It Special Most gas fires spread sideways. This one climbs. Behind the glass is a fire view more than five feet tall , and because the front is frameless, your tile or stone runs right to the edge of the flame—no metal border, no louvers. It builds into a framed wall, so plan on finish work as part of the install; when it’s done, the wall itself seems to hold the fire . The Front Facing line is built with passive cool wall technology, which means a TV or artwork can hang right above the fire instead of a careful distance away. And the remote carries a thermostat: set 70 and the flame adjusts on its own to hold the room there. The interior lighting is dimmable from the remote and runs with or without the flame —so the fireplace still glows on an August evening when the last thing you want is heat. Possible Downsides • It will not run during a power outage ; the lighting features require the plug-in power supply. • It ships set up for natural gas only ; running it on propane takes a conversion kit installed by your dealer. If the wall you have is tall and every fire you’ve seen is wide, the FR 31H is the right decision. The wall that used to be blank becomes the reason people stop in the doorway. It comes with your choice of five included log sets—standard, weathered driftwood, refractory clay, and short or long English logs—with bonfire, campfire, aspen, and charred-branch media and a black reflective interior available if you want a different look in the firebox.

Manuals & Spec Sheets

Documentation for this model is available in the showroom.