Yes — and in Arden it helps to separate two projects. Many Royal Pines and Skyland homes already have a drafty open masonry fireplace upstairs; a basement wood stove is a different install, usually needing its own new Class A chimney rather than sharing that flue. It also needs clearances, a rated hearth, and an outside-air source to draft below grade.
Your upstairs fireplace and a basement stove are two flues
It's a common assumption that a new basement stove can run up the existing chimney, but that masonry flue is serving the fireplace above it, and a wood stove needs its own correctly sized, listed venting. In most of these 1980s and '90s homes that means a dedicated Class A insulated chimney for the stove, routed up past the roofline. If your goal is really just more heat, we'll also tell you honestly when a sealed insert in that tired open fireplace upstairs would get you there for less work.
Turning a drafty house into a warm one
An open masonry fireplace like the ones in Skyland and Glenn Bridge homes actually pulls heat out of the room and up the chimney. A tight EPA wood stove in the basement does the reverse — it's a real heater, and because heat rises it warms the floors above. Sized to your square footage and vented with a full Class A chimney, a stove down there is dependable backup that keeps working when the power to this corridor goes out.
Permitted, and 15 minutes away
We pull the Buncombe County permit and meet the inspector, handling stove, chimney, and hearth as one accountable job with our workmanship guarantee. We install stoves from Regency along with lines like Jotul, Lopi, and HearthStone, and we're just 15 minutes south of our Emma Road showroom — call (828) 545-0525 for a free assessment, or visit to see our displays.
Fireplace help in Arden
We install and service fireplaces throughout Arden and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes south from our Asheville-area showroom.