Can I heat my home with my wood stove or wood insert when the power is out?
Yes — a Leicester wood stove or wood insert heats your home through a power outage on firewood alone, and out here that's often the whole point. Many rural properties run on propane, some have limited electrical service to begin with, and wood heat is already popular — because it needs neither the grid nor a fuel delivery to keep a house warm.
Made for Off-the-Grid Living
Leicester's large rural properties out toward Sandy Mush and Turkey Creek often sit past the natural-gas mains, on propane, and some remote homes have limited electrical capacity to start with. A heat source that leans hard on electricity is a poor fit here.
Wood asks for none of it. A stove burns off its cast body with nothing plugged in — no igniter, no blower needed to feel the warmth, no tank to run dry. On clear winter nights, cold-air drainage runs these valleys five to eight degrees colder than Asheville, so that steady, grid-free heat earns its keep.
Choosing and Sizing the Stove
Most of these homes want a freestanding stove rather than an insert, since many don't have a masonry fireplace to work with. We size it to the space — roughly 20 BTU per square foot in a moderate climate, more for WNC's cold — so it carries the coldest night without being throttled down and smoldering.
A Regency Cascades F1500 heats up to 1,500 square feet and holds an overnight burn, which suits a good many Leicester homes. Whatever fits, it needs a proper Class A chimney set to clearance.
Permitted and Fifteen Minutes Out
We pull the Buncombe County permit, set the chimney and appliance to clearance, and meet the inspector, so the work protects your home sale and insurance. We're only 15 minutes west of the Asheville showroom.
We install and service Regency, Lopi, Jotul, and HearthStone. Wood heat runs on a clean, intact flue, so have an idle stove swept and checked before you count on it. Call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Leicester
We install and service fireplaces throughout Leicester and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes west from our Asheville-area showroom.