Hearth for Telluride homes, at 8,750 feet.
Wood, gas, pellet, and electric stoves and fireplaces installed across Telluride, Mountain Village, Placerville, Ridgway, and Ophir. Eighteen hearth brands including Stûv, Heat & Glo, Mendota, Valcourt, Majestic, Vermont Castings, and Osburn. NFI-certified installers, altitude-tuned draft spec, permit coordination with the Town of Telluride and San Miguel County when your build requires it.
What Telluride homeowners get from us.
Stûv, Heat & Glo, Mendota, Marquis, Majestic, Valcourt, Vermont Castings, Osburn, MF Fire, Mason-Lite, Isokern, Grand Canyon Gas Logs, and more. Wood, gas, pellet, electric — every category.
National Fireplace Institute certified — the credential that satisfies HOA and building-department requirements up in Mountain Village and elsewhere in San Miguel County.
Thin air changes chimney draft math. We spec taller flues and draft-inducing caps on Telluride installs so your wood stove drafts cleanly and your gas insert vents properly.
Family-run since 1989. Same crew delivers and installs. We've worked with most of the builders and interior designers active in the Telluride market.
Wood, gas, pellet, or electric.
Every Telluride install starts with the same question: what do you want fire to do in this room? Ambience, primary heat, backup heat, remote-control convenience, or the ritual of a hand-loaded wood stove? Each answer points to a different fuel and a different brand.
Wood-burning
Vermont Castings cast iron, Osburn EPA-certified, MF Fire smart wood, Valcourt masonry. Best for existing wood-friendly homes and off-grid Telluride cabins where you want fire as primary heat. New Telluride/Mountain Village construction usually requires EPA Phase III units.
Gas & propane
Heat & Glo, Mendota, Marquis, Majestic, Stûv. Direct-vent inserts, linear contemporary units, traditional-front fireplaces. Remote-controlled, thermostat-driven, and the default for new-build Telluride homes. Propane conversion standard.
Pellet
Osburn and Vermont Castings pellet stoves. Cleaner-burning than wood, less permit friction than wood, more thermostat control than either. A solid backup-heat option for Telluride homes with intermittent occupancy.
Electric
For rooms where venting isn't an option — media walls, bedrooms, condos in Mountain Village. No permit, no chimney, plug and play. Available from Heat & Glo, Majestic, and others.
A Telluride hearth install has more variables than most.
Draft math changes at 8,750 feet. Chimney draft depends on air density, and Telluride's air is 30% thinner than sea-level Denver's. A wood-stove flue that would draw fine in Grand Junction can struggle up here — you get sluggish light-offs, smoke rollback, and creosote build-up. Every wood install we do above 7,000 feet gets extra flue height (usually 2-4 feet more than the manufacturer minimum) and a draft-inducing cap if the roofline creates negative pressure zones.
Air-quality regs and HOAs. The Town of Telluride and Mountain Village both have air-quality rules that restrict new wood-burning installs. Most new construction gets pointed toward gas or EPA Phase III wood-burning units. In Mountain Village specifically, some HOAs go further and require gas-only. We pull the current requirements for your specific address during quoting so you know exactly what your options are before you fall in love with a specific model.
Propane vs natural gas. Many Telluride second homes, Mountain Village estates, and rural San Miguel County properties run on propane rather than natural gas. Every gas brand we carry ships or converts to propane, and our installers handle the conversion at install. We coordinate with your propane supplier on regulator sizing and tank placement.
Install access. Historic Telluride streets, tight Mountain Village lot access, and steep driveways off Turkey Creek all shape the install day. Sometimes a stove goes in through a crane pick over a fence panel; sometimes it comes disassembled through a stairwell. We plan access during the site walk before we commit to a delivery date.
Answers we give Telluride buyers.
Do you install wood stoves and fireplaces in Telluride?
Yes. We install wood, gas, pellet, and electric stoves and fireplaces across San Miguel County — Telluride, Mountain Village, Placerville, Ophir, and Ridgway. NFI-certified installers, code-compliant venting, permit coordination with the Town of Telluride and San Miguel County when required.
Can a wood stove work well at Telluride's altitude?
Yes, but altitude matters for draft. Thin air at 8,750 feet means chimneys need to be taller or better-drafting than the same install at sea level. We spec extra flue height and often add a draft-inducing cap on Telluride wood stove installs. Cleaner-burning modern EPA-certified units (Vermont Castings, Osburn, MF Fire) also handle altitude better than older-design stoves.
Do Telluride and Mountain Village have restrictions on wood-burning?
Yes. Both the Town of Telluride and Mountain Village have air-quality regulations that restrict new wood-burning installs — most new construction is limited to gas or EPA Phase III wood units. We'll pull the current requirements for your specific address during quoting so you know your options. Gas fireplaces from Heat & Glo, Mendota, Valcourt, or Marquis are the typical drop-in solution for new-build Telluride homes.
Which fireplace brands work best for a Telluride mountain-modern home?
For contemporary architecture we usually spec Stûv (Belgian, striking modern silhouettes), Heat & Glo Primo/Exclaim (linear glass gas), Mendota's Direct Vent linear line, or Marquis contemporary units. For traditional log/timber homes we lean toward Vermont Castings cast iron or a Valcourt masonry wood-burning unit.
Do you handle propane conversions?
Yes. Many Telluride second homes and Mountain Village estates run on propane rather than natural gas. All the gas brands we carry ship or convert to propane, and our installers handle the conversion at install. We coordinate with your propane supplier on regulator sizing and tank placement.
Do you service stoves and fireplaces you didn't sell in Telluride?
Yes. Annual inspections, chimney sweeps, gas valve diagnostics, blower replacements, and general troubleshooting on any brand of stove or fireplace in San Miguel County. We service both wood and gas across most of the major manufacturers.
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