Can I replace just the doors or screen front to freshen up my fireplace?
Yes — and in Brevard the reason your front looks tired is often corrosion. With 80-plus inches of rain a year, brass pits, screen mesh rusts, and door hinges seize, so replacing the front is as much repair as refresh. We size a new matte-black, bronze, or clean modern front to your opening, and on Transylvania's propane gas units the front matches the model.
Why fronts fail faster here
Brevard sits in one of the wettest pockets we serve, and that moisture is hard on hardware. The same damp that cracks chimney crowns and rusts dampers works on your fireplace front too — pitted brass, a screen that's flaking, hinges that no longer swing true. By the time it looks dated, it's often corroding, so a swap solves both problems at once.
For material, a powder-coated or well-finished front stands up to the humidity far better than the thin brass plating of the 1980s, which is part of why matte black and bronze wear so well in this climate as well as looking current.
Masonry, prefab, or propane gas
The right front depends on the firebox. Downtown Brevard and Connestee Falls masonry fireplaces take a glass door or mesh screen sized to the opening; a factory-built prefab up in Sherwood Forest needs a front made for that specific unit — you can't bolt a universal door onto a zero-clearance box.
Because Brevard is propane country, plenty of homes here run a propane gas fireplace, and those have their own clean-face and framed front options. A cosmetic swap doesn't trigger a Transylvania County permit, but the fit and clearances still have to be right. Call (828) 545-0525 or bring photos to our Asheville showroom, 40 minutes northeast.
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.