My house doesn't have natural gas service — can I still get a permanently plumbed fire pit with a dedicated propane tank?
Yes. Waynesville is a mixed-fuel town — some streets have natural gas, but a lot of homes, especially the older Hazelwood stock and properties up the ridges, run on propane. A permanently plumbed pit off a dedicated tank is completely at home here. We run and pressure-test the buried outdoor-rated line; your propane supplier owns and fills the tank.
Where propane is the norm
At nearly 2,650 feet, Waynesville leans hard on its hearths, and outside the areas the gas main reaches, that fuel is propane. A dedicated tank feeding a fixed pit behaves exactly like a natural-gas one — same steady flame, same instant-on, just supplied from your own vessel instead of a utility line. Homes in Hazelwood, downtown, and out toward Lake Junaluska all fit the pattern.
Already heating or cooking with propane? We can usually plumb the pit off the tank you've got.
A fire feature that earns its keep here
Waynesville runs 10 to 15 degrees colder than the lower WNC towns, and its heating season stretches roughly three weeks longer than Asheville's. That's the case for a permanent pit rather than a portable one: you get usable evenings on the patio from early fall clear into late spring, so a fixed, tank-fed feature you never have to wheel out or refill from little bottles genuinely pays off.
The connection is licensed work
Downstream of the tank — the regulator, the buried line, the burner setup — is ours, and in North Carolina that's licensed gas-piping work a mason or hardscaper legally can't perform. We pull the Haywood County permit, meet the inspector, and pressure-test the run. Call (828) 545-0525 and we'll size it for your layout.
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.