Are gas fire pits worth it compared to wood-burning fire pits?
For Brevard, the honest answer starts with fuel: this is propane country, so a gas fire pit here runs off a tank or a dedicated line rather than a city main. Even so, gas usually wins — no hauling and drying wood in an 80-inch-rain town, no soggy ash, just a clean flame on a wet-season evening.
Propane, Not a Gas Main
Brevard and the cabins around it sit off the natural-gas grid, so a gas pit here means propane — either tied into your existing tank or fed by piping we set and the supplier fills. Propane packs more heat per unit than natural gas and needs its own orifice and pressure, which is precisely why the connection is licensed work, permitted with Transylvania County and pressure-tested.
A hardscaper can build you a gorgeous stone pit, but connecting it to that propane is a licensed gas contractor's job in North Carolina. That's our lane.
Wood and Rain Don't Mix Well
Transylvania gets 80-plus inches of rain a year, and that reshapes the wood-versus-gas calculus. Firewood has to be split, stacked, covered, and actually dry to burn clean — a tall order when the wet season runs March into June. Rain turns leftover ash into a gray paste, and a damp cold-start smokes badly.
A gas pit sidesteps all of it: no wet wood, no soggy cleanup, and a flame that lights the same on a drizzly Connestee Falls night as a dry one.
The Case for Wood
If it's the campfire itself you're after — the smell, the coals, marshmallows on a stick — wood or a smokeless wood pit is a fair call, and we install those too. Tell us how you picture the evenings and we'll be straight with you. Call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Brevard
We install and service fireplaces throughout Brevard and the rest of Transylvania County — just 40 minutes southwest from our Asheville-area showroom.