How much does it cost to install a built-in electric fireplace, including the wiring?
At Waynesville's elevation — nearly 2,650 feet, ten to fifteen degrees colder than the valley towns — a built-in electric fireplace works as ambiance and gentle supplemental warmth, not as your heat source. The unit runs a few hundred dollars; the cost is the recess, the circuit, and the finish wall. Free quote at (828) 545-0525.
Right-sizing expectations at 2,650 feet
Waynesville's heating season runs about three weeks longer than Asheville's, and the older Hazelwood housing stock leans on its hearths hard. An electric built-in puts out around 5,000 BTU — real, but supplemental, good for a space up to roughly 400 square feet. In a drafty Hazelwood living room it will take the chill off and look terrific; it won't carry the house on a single-digit January night. We tell you that up front rather than sell you short.
Where the dollars go
The Dimplex costs a few hundred; framing a recess into the wall, getting a dedicated 1,500-watt circuit to it, and finishing back around the opening is the actual project. Electrical work isn't our trade — we do what makes fire and heat — so we coordinate a licensed electrician and run the carpentry and install ourselves, one schedule, in Haywood County.
The outage question up here
Mountain power lines in Haywood go down in winter storms, and an electric fireplace is dead the moment they do — no exceptions. If you want heat you can count on when the grid quits, a direct-vent gas unit or a wood stove is the honest answer, and we install both. If you've already got reliable backup and just want a clean flame on a wall that never had one, electric is the least-expensive way there. We're 35 minutes east — call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Waynesville
We install and service fireplaces throughout Waynesville and the rest of Haywood County — just 35 minutes west from our Asheville-area showroom.