Candler, North Carolina

Why does smoke come into the room when I use my wood-burning fireplace?

In Candler, the shape of the land is often the problem. Hominy Valley sits in a natural bowl, and on calm, cold days air stagnates and settles in the basin — giving your chimney little to draft against and letting smoke drift back inside instead of climbing out. Newer builder-grade fireboxes here make weak draft worse.

The Hominy Valley bowl

A chimney drafts on the difference between the warm air inside it and the cooler, moving air outside. Hominy Valley's bowl works against that: on still, cold days the air stalls and pools in the basin, so there's little pressure difference for the flue to work with and smoke lingers at the opening. That same trapped air is exactly why a clean-burning, sealed appliance is worth so much here — it keeps smoke out of the room and out of the neighborhood's air on stagnant days.

Builder-grade and buildup

Candler's fast-growing subdivisions tend to have basic, decorative builder-grade fireboxes that were never strong drafters, and out here in propane country the wood hearth often works alongside unseasoned firewood and a season's creosote — all of which leave less draft to spare when the valley air goes stagnant.

A cleaner-burning fix

We inspect the sizing, draft, and flue, and a sealed insert — wood, or propane out here in Hominy Valley — with a right-sized liner drafts reliably and burns cleaner, which the bowl's air appreciates. We pull the Buncombe County permit and we're 15 minutes west of Emma Road. Call (828) 545-0525.

Fireplace help in Candler

We install and service fireplaces throughout Candler and the rest of Buncombe County — just 15 minutes west from our Asheville-area showroom.

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