Initially I was really pleased with the fire. We were able to fit the main part quite easily. The top fitted well, but when we tried to fit the lower section there was a problem. There is a wire which lights the lower section. The fire was supplied with an additional instruction (separate sheet) instructing to slide the base over the wire. Absolutely impossible without damaging either the base or the wire. Eventually my wife checked out the original instructions, which showed the wire going through a hole in the base. The wire wouldn't pull through, so she filed the gap and made it bigger, slipped the wire through and connected it, and there you go, the wire fitted and no damage. Whether the fire we had had not been altered to account for the new instruction we don't know, but with the tweak it works well and looks lovely.