Can you install a hearth on a prefab fireplace if you dont use it?

[03mustangdude]

Found a awesome deal on a hearth like this



While looking up what a lintel bar was to help out measuring it out found a forum that was talking about how you can't install these on premade fireplaces due to heat issues? They said premade fireplaces are ones that dont have brick on the outside of the house??

Anyways I never use the fireplace maybe once and its the center of the room when you walk in. So if I install it will it break or something?

Just thought id ask.

[SonicblueGT03]

I've always thought the "hearth" part of a fireplace is the bricks you sit on in front of it. That's just a glass enclosure, which I have on mine and it's a non-firebrick style fireplace (i.e. gas insert style).

[03mustangdude]

idk the proper name but its not going to fit with the installation kit provided so i'm either going to have to return it on use screws and anchors.