What time of year is best to buy a fireplace?
For Leicester, buy in spring or summer, and plan around the grid. Many rural properties out Sandy Mush and Turkey Creek run on propane, lean on wood heat, and some have limited electrical capacity — so the appliance choice matters as much as the season. The off-season is when to spec heat that works when the power doesn't.
Heat that doesn't need the grid
Leicester's remote valleys lose power in storms, and some properties have limited electrical capacity to begin with — so a fireplace here often needs to work independent of the grid. A Valor gas unit throws radiant heat with zero electricity — no blower, no circuit board — and a wood stove or EPA fireplace is total grid independence, heat you own outright. An electric fireplace, honestly, is dead in an outage, so it's the wrong pick for these hollows. Speccing the right non-electric appliance is unhurried off-season work, done and proven before the first storm knocks the lines down.
Propane, wood, and a colder valley
Many Leicester homes run propane rather than a gas main — a tank coordinated with your supplier, an appliance set up for LP — and wood heat is popular on these big rural lots. Cold-air drainage runs these valleys 5 to 8 degrees colder than Asheville on clear winter nights, so the heating season bites early and hard out here. Getting the fuel and the appliance sorted in summer means it's installed and proven before that cold sets in. The gas line is licensed work — we pull the Buncombe County permit and pressure-test it. We're fifteen minutes west.
Certainty before the storms
There's no seasonal sale to wait on — we're price-quiet year-round. The off-season advantage in Leicester is simply having dependable, grid-independent heat installed and proven before you need it, on properties where the power can be the first thing to go and the last to come back. That peace of mind is worth more than any discount. The first visit is free. Call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Leicester
We install and service fireplaces throughout Leicester and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes west from our Asheville-area showroom.