In Swannanoa, yes — Steady Flame is your authorized Heat & Glo dealer, just 15 minutes from our Asheville showroom. As homes here are rebuilt and renovated, a lot of owners are adding real backup heat, and Heat & Glo is one of three lines we're authorized on. Natural gas serves the valley, and as a licensed gas contractor we permit and install.
Building back with heat that stays on
Storm damage has meant a wave of rebuilds and renovations across Swannanoa, and it changed what people ask a fireplace to do. The homes that stayed warm through the multi-day outages were the ones with a working hearth — central heat stops the moment the power does. A Heat & Glo unit with IntelliFire ignition keeps making heat with the grid down, which is why so many rebuilt Grovemont and Bee Tree homes now put a gas fireplace in from the start rather than as an afterthought.
Original masonry, modern guts
The Grovemont-area housing stock runs to 1940s-through-'60s homes with original masonry fireboxes — charming, but drafty and inefficient by today's standards, and the river-valley fog and cold-air pooling are hard on that old masonry. A Heat & Glo gas insert seals into the existing opening and turns it into a real heater, or a clean-face direct-vent unit goes into a new wall entirely. Either way you get output the old open box never delivered.
Permitted work on the rebuild
On a rebuild, permitted and inspected gas work isn't optional — it protects the home and your insurance. A general contractor can frame the space, but running gas is licensed work we handle: the Buncombe County permit, the pressure test, the inspector. Fifteen minutes out keeps it all quick. See the outage-ready Heat & Glo options at our Asheville showroom. Call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Swannanoa
We install and service fireplaces throughout Swannanoa and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes east from our Asheville-area showroom.