Does the fireplace company pull the permit, or do I have to?

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We pull it. A licensed gas contractor is supposed to pull the permit under their own license — that's part of what you're hiring. Steady Flame files with your county, schedules the inspection, and meets the inspector on site. If a company asks you to pull an "owner permit" for gas work they're doing, treat it as a red flag.

That's on us, by license

Pulling the permit is the licensed contractor's job, and it's part of what you're hiring us for. Steady Flame files the permit with your county under our gas license, schedules the inspection, and meets the inspector on site. You don't stand in line at the permit office or take a day off to let the inspector in — we carry the whole thing. On a licensed gas job, the permit rides on our name, not yours — as it should on any gas job.

The owner-permit red flag

Here's a test worth remembering: if a company doing gas work asks you to pull an "owner-builder" or "homeowner" permit in your name, be wary. That's often a sign they're not licensed to pull it themselves — which means they may not be licensed to do the gas work at all. In North Carolina, gas piping is licensed work, and the licensed contractor is the one who's supposed to file. Shifting that paperwork onto you shifts the liability, too.

Handled end to end

From the first assessment to the inspector's final sign-off, the permit is one of the things you never have to think about with us. We pull it, we pressure-test the line, we meet Buncombe or Henderson or Haywood or Transylvania county at the door, and we don't call the job done until it closes clean. That's what single-source, one-accountable-company actually looks like. Call (828) 545-0525 for a free quote.

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