Which adds more resale value to a home, a gas fireplace or a wood-burning fireplace?
In Arden, the value move is turning a tired open fireplace into a real heater. The 1980s-90s homes in Royal Pines and Skyland came with open masonry fireboxes that pull warm air out of the room, and buyers read those as drafty and dated. A sealed gas insert on the natural-gas mains here fixes that and adds resale value. Permitted Buncombe County work keeps it documented.
The drafty-firebox problem
Arden's established Royal Pines and Skyland neighborhoods are full of open masonry fireplaces from the 80s and 90s, and by now most of them are tired — pulling heat out of the room instead of adding it, and reading to a buyer as a draft and an energy leak. Dropping a sealed gas insert into that existing firebox turns a liability into a real heater, commonly 70% efficient or better, and does it on the natural-gas mains that run through here. That's a documented upgrade an appraiser can see.
Why gas leads in this market
Arden buyers are largely shopping convenient, move-in-ready homes, and a flip-of-the-switch gas fireplace fits that better than a wood hearth with its upkeep. Wood still has its place for the buyer who wants outage-proof heat, but across these subdivisions gas is the safer resale bet. The Biltmore Park retail and office spaces nearby push the same way — clean, low-maintenance gas ambiance with no wood to manage.
Documented, one company
Fifteen minutes south of our Asheville showroom, we handle the insert, the venting, the gas line, and the Buncombe County permit as one accountable licensed company — not a job handed off to a mason to make burn. That paper trail is what protects your number at closing. Call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Arden
We install and service fireplaces throughout Arden and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes south from our Asheville-area showroom.
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