Can I replace just the doors or screen front to freshen up my fireplace?
Yes — and in Asheville the front you need depends on your neighborhood. Montford and North Asheville's original masonry fireboxes take a glass door or mesh screen sized to the opening, while South Asheville's newer clean-face gas units take a model-specific framed or frameless front. Our showroom sits right here at 629 Emma Rd, so bring the piece.
Two Ashevilles, two fronts
The century-old masonry hearths across Montford, West Asheville, and Grove Park still wear polished 1980s brass or a fogged, scratched glass door, and that dated front ages an otherwise beautiful room. Swapping it for matte black or warm bronze, cut to your exact opening, erases decades without disturbing the brick, the surround, or the mantel — the masonry stays untouched.
The gas fireplaces going into South Asheville and Biltmore Village new construction are a different job entirely. Their fronts are built for one specific model, so there's no universal door to bolt on; the payoff is that stepping from a framed look to a frameless clean face is the single most dramatic way to modernize a gas unit.
The hometown advantage
Being headquartered on Emma Rd is the real Asheville perk here. You can carry in your old door or a phone full of photos and opening dimensions, and we'll match a front from a line that fits your firebox rather than ordering blind and hoping the mounting lines up.
A straight cosmetic door-or-screen change never touches the fuel supply, so there's no Buncombe County permit and no inspector — that only enters the picture when we're actually running or relocating a gas line. On any burning appliance, though, the fit and clearances still have to be right, which is why we measure before we install. Call (828) 545-0525 and we'll sort out what fits.
Fireplace help in Asheville
We install and service fireplaces throughout Asheville and the rest of Buncombe County — we're headquartered right here.