In Asheville, Mendota is about as close as it gets — our showroom at 629 Emma Rd is right here in town, so you can stand in front of a lit FullView before you commit. We carry the line and install it citywide as your licensed gas contractor, from Montford's original masonry openings to South Asheville's clean-face great rooms. Call (828) 545-0525.
Two Asheville homes, one hand-built fireplace
Asheville splits into two fireplace stories, and Mendota answers both. In Montford and North Asheville, the original masonry firebox is often a drafty heat-loser — a sealed FullView drops into that opening and finally throws real warmth. In South Asheville's newer construction, the same unit frames cleanly into a modern great room. Either way we run on the natural-gas mains that serve most of the city, and at 2,134 feet, with nights still in the 20s into early spring, that heat earns its keep.
The showroom advantage of being local
Mendota is dealer-only for a reason you'll understand the second you see one burning: no photo captures how convincingly its hand-cast ceramic-fiber logs read as a real wood fire. Because we're headquartered at 629 Emma Rd, you don't have to drive the mountains to judge it — come by any weekday, 8 to 5, and compare the flame in person. Then we quote and install; there's no online cart for a fireplace like this, and there shouldn't be.
Permit, gas line, inspector — all Buncombe, all us
In North Carolina, connecting or extending a gas line is licensed work, so the store that shows you a firebox legally can't fuel it. We handle that end: we pull the Buncombe County permit, run and pressure-test the line, and meet the inspector — one accountable company from the showroom floor to the final sign-off. Every install is backed by Mendota's warranty plus our own workmanship guarantee.
Fireplace help in Asheville
We install and service fireplaces throughout Asheville and the rest of Buncombe County — we're headquartered right here.