In Clyde, Steady Flame Fireplaces is your Kozy Heat dealer and installer, 25 minutes west of our Asheville showroom in Haywood County. Clyde's 1960s-through-'80s ranch homes are full of dated fireplaces that make perfect candidates for an insert upgrade — and a Kozy Heat insert turns one into a genuine heater. Call (828) 545-0525.
The ranch-house insert upgrade
Clyde is largely 1960s-to-'80s ranch-style homes, and a lot of them still have the original dated fireplace — decent bones, poor performance. That's an ideal insert candidate. A Kozy Heat insert seats inside the existing opening, seals it, and converts a heat-losing firebox into a real heater, all without a full masonry rebuild. Kozy Heat is American-made in Minnesota with cold-climate output in mind, and where a ranch here is on the natural-gas main, the Chaska 25L with its standard blower is the natural fit for the job.
River humidity, and why sealed wins
Clyde shares the cold-air drainage that Canton and Waynesville get, and the river humidity along the Pigeon valley rusts dampers and degrades masonry chimneys faster than drier towns see. That's an argument against rebuilding around an old open flue and for a sealed appliance that doesn't depend on one. Clyde runs on both natural gas and propane, so we match the model and its fuel setup to your street — a wrong-fuel install soots and underheats, and out here that's a real winter problem, not a cosmetic one.
Permitted with Haywood County
Connecting the insert to gas is licensed work in North Carolina — a handyman legally can't run the line. As a licensed gas contractor we handle the spec, the Haywood County permit, the pressure test, and the inspector, so the upgrade is code-correct and stays right for insurance and resale. Since Kozy Heat is dealer-only, come see one at the Asheville showroom, request a free in-home assessment, or call (828) 545-0525.
Fireplace help in Clyde
We install and service fireplaces throughout Clyde and the rest of Haywood County — just 25 minutes west from our Asheville-area showroom.