Yes, and Leicester is prime wood-stove country: rural properties where wood heat is already popular, many homes on propane, and some remote lots with limited electrical capacity — a setting a wood stove fits perfectly. The stove must be listed for manufactured-home use, with an outside-air kit, floor anchor, and listed Class A chimney. A standard stove without that listing isn't legal.
Heat that needs no electricity
On the remote large lots around Sandy Mush and Turkey Creek, some homes have limited electrical capacity — which is where a wood stove beats a pellet stove outright, since pellets need power to run and a wood stove needs none. For a manufactured home, that's genuine self-reliance: warmth you own outright when cold-air drainage drops these valleys 5 to 8 degrees below Asheville and the lines are down. Many of these homes already burn wood; a listed stove does it safely.
What the listing requires
The stove has to carry the manufactured-home listing on its data plate — a conventional EPA stove doesn't qualify, and neither the Buncombe County inspector nor your insurer will accept one. That listing brings an outside-combustion-air duct to the firebox, a permanent floor anchor, a listed Class A insulated chimney with its ceiling-support box, roof support, and spark arrestor, and a hearth pad rated to the stove. Listed heat shields hold the tight wall clearances.
Close by and permitted
We're 15 minutes west of our Asheville showroom, pull the Buncombe County permit, and meet the inspector for a two-to-three-day install. Call (828) 545-0525 for a free assessment.
Fireplace help in Leicester
We install and service fireplaces throughout Leicester and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes west from our Asheville-area showroom.