Umm yep it kind of does 
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Glad Tory said it, I just didnt want to write U tool 
If you can remove some of that high hearth you would probably gain the 300mm
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Do you take commissions? I’d happily pay you a modest fee to persuade Madame that it needs to go … does marble show bloodstains, I wonder?
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Tell her the lower hearth would mean warmer feet, all women say their feet are cold and many blokes would agree when they place them on us after getting into bed
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More like ‘er’ so it’s yer tul (with a long u), so more Rab C Nesbit 
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Looking at the photo as @Corona wrote you could possibly take the hearth down and also gain height by taking out some of the top walling, need more photos. Another thing to think about with wood burners or inserts is the minimum width in the length of the chimney space, & consider this for the tubing diameter that’s going to fit the fire.
So it’d be more like Geordie, hinny?
Scandinavian pronunciation is even weirder than English - there’s a Swedish-American woman on YouTube who makes weird gadgets, called Simone Giertz - her surname is pronounced (something like) “Yurtch”.
Indeed. IIRC sjukhuset is pronounced fweehoosay…
I’m just grateful the Swedes all seem so happy to learn English.
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I was amused hearing someone on the radio talking about ‘lodze’ yesterday when as any fule know it is pronounced ‘wootch’. Mind you I remember after Ceausescu (can’t do the diacritic under the first s) got his come uppance I heard a poor child on the radio talking about kew-ziss-cow.
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Łódź?
(Polish has French well beaten when it comes to accented letters, even after time added on for injuries…) 
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I deliberately didn’t put the real name, just what I heard! Yes Łódź 
. I was amused to learn in Gdańsk that the city’s name sounds more like Gdeysk when said by locals. My father calls it Danzig 
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Ah yes, I think that would have been under a previous administration.
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He was born in Königsberg 
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I understand my grandparents used to go on holiday there.
So, what has happened with the fire insert? 
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We’re speaking to them tomorrow, when they’ve had chance to mull over the space. Thanks for asking! It feels like a bit of a saga.
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Good!
Thought it might have ended up in Danzig…
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It turns out that yer tool make inserts with one or two glass side panels, so even if the curved glass idea is a non-starter, we can do something similar.
Unfortunate name for a company, but they’ll probably get away with it in France…
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