Fire pit vs outdoor fireplace — which is better for my patio?
In Arden you're usually working with an established yard — Royal Pines, Skyland, the 1980s-90s neighborhoods — where the patio already exists and you're adding a feature. That flat, finished space makes a fire pit an easy drop-in with a 360-degree circle. Choose the outdoor fireplace when you want to build an actual room off the back of the house, with a wall and a windbreak.
Adding to a finished patio
Arden's established neighborhoods come with mature yards and existing hardscape, so most projects here are additions rather than ground-up builds. A fire pit drops onto a finished patio with minimal disruption — a modest footing, a gas line, and a seating circle. Running that gas to an already-built patio is exactly our lane: we trench, connect, permit, and pressure-test, work a mason or landscaper legally can't finish in North Carolina. If you'd rather define a full outdoor room off the back of the house, the fireplace is the anchor — a wall for furniture, a mantel, and forward heat at seated height.
Natural gas and Biltmore Park
Arden sits on the natural-gas mains, so either feature runs off a permanent line instead of a tank — no refills, flame at the flip of a switch. The commercial spaces around Biltmore Park use outdoor fire features the same way, and we handle those hard-plumbed connections too. Every install is licensed and on the record: Buncombe County permit, inspector, pressure test. We're only 15 minutes south of the Emma Road showroom, so line runs and any future service call are quick and cheap on travel.
Fireplace help in Arden
We install and service fireplaces throughout Arden and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes south from our Asheville-area showroom.
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