Outdoor gas fireplace vs outdoor wood-burning fireplace — which should I build?
In Weaverville, the answer often tracks with which house you're in. The fast-growing Reems Creek new builds are ideal for designing a gas outdoor fireplace in from the start — clean, frequently used, low fuss. Older downtown homes with room to spare can carry a wood-burning fireplace and its chimney if the ritual is what you're after. Both run on Weaverville's natural-gas mains.
Building it into the new Reems Creek homes
A lot of Weaverville's growth is fresh construction out around Reems Creek, and new outdoor living space is the easiest place to do gas right. When we're planning the patio before the landscaping's locked in, we can route a buried, outdoor-rated gas line cleanly, size the firebox to the space, and set it where the flame does the most good. These are homes people intend to use — and a gas outdoor fireplace lights on an ordinary weeknight with no woodpile and no cold-start smoke, which is why it ends up getting used the most.
Older downtown lots and the wood option
Weaverville's older downtown homes tend to have the room a wood-burning outdoor fireplace needs — space for a real chimney at proper height, clearances to the house, a spark arrestor. If what you want is the crackle and the coals, and you've got the lot for it, wood is a fine build. The town's north-facing valley keeps spring cool and evenings crisp, so either way you'll have a long season to sit by it. Connecting the fuel is licensed work; we pull the Buncombe County permit and pressure-test the line. Call (828) 545-0525 — we're fifteen minutes north.
Which we'd build
For a new Weaverville home you'll use constantly, we lean gas. For an older lot where the fire is meant to be an occasion, wood earns its place. The honest test is simple — build the one you'll actually light, and we'll help you figure out which that is, free.
Fireplace help in Weaverville
We install and service fireplaces throughout Weaverville and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes north from our Asheville-area showroom.
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