Can I put gas logs in my existing outdoor wood-burning fireplace?
Yes — and around Mars Hill the fuel usually decides the details. Rural Spring Creek and Gabriels Creek homes tend to run on propane or wood, while the university area leans on easy-use gas. Either way, converting your outdoor wood firebox to gas logs trades the cold-start and ash for instant flame — welcome, since this is one of the colder spots we serve.
Propane, wood, and what that means
Out in the Spring Creek and Gabriels Creek valleys, many Mars Hill properties heat with propane or wood and sit off the natural-gas grid entirely. For a gas-log conversion that means feeding the set from your propane tank, which burns hotter per unit than natural gas and needs the right orifices and pressure. We match the log set to your fuel, size the line, set the regulator, and run the piping outdoor-rated to the firebox — a wrong-fuel setup soots and never looks right.
Easy flame for a rental-heavy town
Around Mars Hill University, a lot of housing is rental, and outdoor fireplaces in that setting need to be foolproof — nobody's teaching a tenant to build a proper wood fire. Gas logs are as simple as it gets: flame on a switch, adjustable, nothing to haul or clean. At this elevation the cool evenings start early in fall and run late into spring, so that outdoor firebox gets real use once it's easy to light.
One licensed company, permitted
Connecting the fuel is licensed work in North Carolina — a handyman or hardscaper can't legally do it. We run and pressure-test the line, permit it with Madison County, and check the firebox flue and spark-arrestor cap while we're there. Thirty minutes north of our Asheville shop. Call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Mars Hill
We install and service fireplaces throughout Mars Hill and the rest of Madison County — just 30 minutes north from our Asheville-area showroom.