Description
The embedding flange is what you need if the heater is going to sit partly recessed into the bench or platform rather than free-standing on the floor. It caps the cut edges of the woodwork around the heater in a single stainless frame.
Flange HM is the HIVE Mini size. Recessing is most common on the Mini precisely because it goes into small rooms, where every inch the heater gives back to the floor is worth having.
Without it you are looking at raw sawn timber against a hot appliance — the joint that always looks unfinished no matter how carefully the carpentry was done, and the one that darkens first. The flange covers the tolerance you needed to leave for the cut-out.
Decide on recessed installation before the bench is built: the cut-out has to be sized to the flange, not the other way round.
Fits these heaters
Fits the HIVE Mini series only (not the full-size HIVE):
