Ortal Front Facing FR 51 Gas Fireplace

Over four feet of flame, built flush into the wall. Quick Facts • Viewing Area: 50 5/16″ wide • Fuel: Natural gas; propane conversion available. • Controls: Remote with thermostat; wall switch and app control available. Who It’s For Most built-in gas fireplaces arrive wrapped in a metal frame, and the frame is what your eye lands on—the fire sits behind it like a picture in a window. You need a fire big enough to be the focal point of the room, not a window into one . If you’re building or remodeling and you want the fireplace to be the first thing people notice, the Ortal Front Facing FR 51 is the one. Pick a standard framed unit and you get a fire in the wall; pick this one and the wall becomes the fire . What Makes It Special The FR 51 is frameless, so your tile, stone, or plaster runs right to the edge of the fire . There’s no metal border announcing an appliance—just a clean opening with more than four feet of flame inside it, dressed with the log media you choose. The wall above stays cool enough to hang a TV or artwork directly over the fire , so the fireplace and the screen share the same wall instead of competing for it. The remote holds a temperature for you: set 70 and the FR 51 keeps the room there on its own , cycling the flame as needed, with a wall switch or phone app available if that’s how your household runs. Possible Downsides • The Double Glass version requires household power and won’t operate during an outage. • Interior lighting is an add-on, not included ; the taller H models in the Front Facing line include it. • It builds into a framed wall , so every install ends with finish work—it can’t slide into an existing masonry fireplace the way an insert does. If you want the fire to be the first thing people notice when they walk in, the FR 51 is the right decision. The room it’s in becomes the room the house lives in. The FR 51 comes in a protective screen or double glass version, with your pick of five included log sets—standard, weathered driftwood, refractory clay, or short and long English logs—plus optional bonfire, campfire, aspen, and branch media, a black reflective interior, and interior lighting.

Manuals & Spec Sheets

Documentation for this model is available in the showroom.