FLAMEKO Verona 16" Freestanding Electric Fire Insert, Black

The FLAMEKO Verona is a freestanding electric fireplace insert — 50cm wide, 60cm high and 17cm deep — that stands on the floor rather than being built into a wall. It finished eighth in this guide, and at £159.97 with 4.6 stars from 188 ratings it sits near the top of the ratings table here.

Its size is the thing to check before you buy. The product name calls it a 16-inch fire. The stated dimensions make it 50cm wide, which is roughly 19.7 inches. And the field Amazon labels 'Maximum Compatible Size (in inches)' reads 18 Inches. Three figures, one product, and nothing in the listing explaining how they relate — the same problem we found across this category, where that field turns up as 112 Centimetres on the Atacama, 128 Centimetres on the Savannah and 1.82 Metres on the 72-inch Valine. There is a second claim worth reading twice: one bullet calls the flame effect '100% energy saving LED', while the same listing describes a 1000W-2000W fan heater drawing 2000 Watts. The listing does say the flame can run with or without the heater, but at 2000 Watts the heater is not 100% energy saving. On the figures that do line up, this is the FLAMEKO whose Heat Output and Power Consumption both read 2000 Watts; the Kingston and Innsbruck listings in this guide swap those two numbers between them. Everything on this page comes from the Amazon listing, not from our own testing.