Should I buy a fireplace from a specialty showroom or a big-box store?

At this elevation, the heater has to earn its keep

Waynesville runs ten to fifteen degrees colder than the lower WNC towns, and a lot of Hazelwood's older homes still lean on drafty open fireplaces that lose more heat than they make. That's the wrong tool for a long Haywood winter. A sealed gas insert or an American-made Kozy Heat, built for cold climates, turns that firebox into a room you can actually stay in.

A store shelf can't size a heater to a 2,650-foot house. A showroom that knows this mountain can.

Thirty-five minutes of mountain between you and the box

Buy an appliance off a shelf and the hard part — routing the vent, running and pressure-testing the gas line, pulling the Haywood County permit — becomes your job to coordinate across separate trades. That's a rough way to assemble something you'll lean on all winter.

We handle the whole job as one accountable company and stand behind the workmanship, so there's a single number to call when it's twelve degrees out.

Serviced by the people who installed it

Waynesville is 35 minutes west of our Emma Road showroom, close enough that annual service and any repair come from the same crew that set the unit. Book the tune-up in late summer, before the heating season starts. Call (828) 545-0525.