In Flat Rock, yes — Steady Flame is your authorized Heat & Glo dealer, about 30 minutes from our Asheville showroom. This is a village of 1800s homes with oversized open masonry fireplaces, and a Heat & Glo insert modernizes them without erasing their character. Natural gas serves the area, and as a licensed gas contractor we permit, pipe, and install.
Old fireboxes, aging flues
Historic Flat Rock's fireplaces are beautiful and, honestly, inefficient — big open masonry boxes over clay flue liners that are often a century old and cracking. Left open, a firebox that size pulls warm room air straight up the chimney; on a cold night it can run a net heat loss. A Heat & Glo gas insert seals into that existing opening, adds IntelliFire ignition and a proper liner, and turns a drafty showpiece into a real heater — while the mantel, hearth, and stonework stay exactly as they are.
Fixing the draft without a remodel
The draftiness owners complain about here isn't really the fireplace's fault so much as physics: an open hearth is an open hole in the house, and cold air pours back down a cold flue like a plug of ice. Sealing that opening with a direct-vent or insert Heat & Glo unit stops the reverse draft and the heat loss in one move. For a home you're preserving, keeping the historic face while upgrading the guts is exactly the point.
Permitted work protects a historic home
On an older, higher-value home, permitted and inspected work matters even more — it protects the sale and the insurance. A mason can rebuild the surround, but connecting gas is licensed work we handle: the Henderson County permit, the pressure test, the inspector. We'll assess the flue and the firebox first, then recommend the least invasive fix. Come see the insert options burning at our Asheville showroom, and call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Flat Rock
We install and service fireplaces throughout Flat Rock and the rest of Henderson County — just 30 minutes south from our Asheville-area showroom.