Thanks Kevin for the feedback, you rightly point out that making the surfaces clean & flush is of paramount importance.  For others interested, please read our article on 'HOW TO REPLACE A STOVE GLASS'.  With regard to your comments about rope length & quality, we have passed on your comments to our stores to ensure the length of rope is 1 metre and cut accurately.  The rope is manufactured by a leading company, years ago (over 10 years) the product supplied by Parkray was a heat proof paper channel, however, the manufactures stopped making.  There are paper channels on the market , however the ones we examined where thinner than the orginal channels.  The ladder rope we supplied to you is a standard now used by many manufactures and deemed acceptable, indeed we have supplied it for many years and it seems to do the job!