Can I sit near a burning fireplace in a showroom to test whether the smell bothers me before buying?
Yes — and Fairview is propane-and-wood country, so the honest test is to have us light the fuel you actually burn. A natural-gas demo won't match an LP tank, and it certainly won't tell you what wood smells like. We're 15 minutes west at 629 Emma Rd in Asheville. Call (828) 545-0525 first and name your fuel.
Propane out on the wooded lots
Fairview's big wooded lots up Cane Creek, Garren Creek, and along the Charlotte Highway corridor are largely on propane, and propane behaves differently from a gas main — it burns hotter per unit and needs its own orifices and pressure. A licensed installer configures the burner to LP, which is what keeps it burning clean rather than sooty and smelly. So when we light a unit for your smell test, we'll set it up for propane, and what reaches your nose in the showroom will be honest to what you'll get at home on your tank.
Wood heat, creosote, and the real comparison
Wood heat is genuinely popular in Fairview, and if you burn wood you already know the smell is part of the appeal — but you also know creosote buildup is the leading cause of chimney fires here without a fall sweep. If you're deciding between keeping a wood fire and converting to clean gas, come test them side by side: we'll fire a wood unit and a gas one together so you can weigh real wood-smoke character against a gas flame that puts essentially nothing in the room. Any conversion needs the licensed gas line, which we permit with Buncombe County and pressure-test. Call (828) 545-0525 or visit weekdays 8 to 5.
Fireplace help in Fairview
We install and service fireplaces throughout Fairview and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes east from our Asheville-area showroom.
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