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A Creative FireSpace™ · 10 September 2026
Regency® Outdoor Gas Fireplaces — The Evening, Extended
Two Horizon fireplaces, two Plateau burners and a fire table, built in Delta, British Columbia — no flue, no wiring, and nothing to carry in from the woodpile.
The best hour of a terrace is the one that gets cut short. Dinner is cleared, the light goes, the air turns, and one by one the chairs are carried in — not because anyone wanted to go, but because nobody thought to bring a fire out. The households we work with that have one describe the change the same way: the evening simply keeps going, in April and again in October, and the outside of the house becomes another room of it.
A wood fire will do that, with smoke, a woodpile and a summer of fire restrictions attached. A gas fire does it from a switch. Nothing to light, nothing to sweep, no flue to run, and, on the fireplaces on this page, no electrical line either — they light from a battery, and the switch is made for weather.
Regency® builds its outdoor fires in Delta, British Columbia, in the same plant as the Grandview we wrote about earlier, and it builds them differently from the ones that go indoors. The burner is stainless steel and made for rain. There is no vent, because there is no room to vent — the fire burns in open air and the air takes care of it. Ignition is electronic, from a battery, with a weatherproof on-off switch, and a safety valve closes the gas if the flame goes out. Natural gas or propane. Every one is approved for outdoor installation only, and every one carries Regency®’s limited lifetime warranty.
The two Horizon® models are the outdoor fireplaces proper. The HZO42 is the smaller: a face 36½ inches wide, 44,500 BTU behind a tempered-glass wind shield, a reflective stainless body that doubles the flame, and a seasonal cover in the box for the months it sleeps. It ships with a packaged framing kit — Regency®’s phrase is “no measuring, no cutting” — so the stone or the stucco has something square to go around. The HZO60 is the one in the photographs above: 60 inches of flame at 64,000 BTU, turning down to 42,000 for a warm night, single-sided or see-through, finished with a clean edge or a stainless surround. Sixty-four thousand BTU is more heat than most of the indoor fireplaces we sell, which is what an open terrace asks for.
Then there are the Plateau® burners, which are for the household with a wall, a bench or a trough of its own design that only wants the fire to go in it. The PTO30 is a 30-inch linear burner at 50,000 BTU; the PTO50 is 50 inches and 64,000 BTU, turning down to 42,000. They join end to end — two 30s make a 60, two 50s make a 100 — so a run of 30, 50, 60, 80 or 100 inches is a matter of how many you order, and Regency® makes framing kits for the 60 and a see-through kit for the 30 so the fire can sit in a low wall and be watched from both sides. The bed under the flame is chosen as it is indoors: crystals in black, starfire or copper; firebeads in caramel lustre, glacier ice or black; volcanic stone in tan or grey; a driftwood ceramic log set; river pebbles along the edge.
The Plateau® fire table — the PTO30CFT — is the one for the household that does not want to build anything at all. It is a coffee table, 48 inches long and 20¼ high, with the 30-inch burner set down its centre and an 11-pound propane tank hidden in the frame, so it needs no gas line and no trench. It lights from a match, turns down from 50,000 BTU to 30,000 on natural gas, and comes with a dining leaf that covers the burner and turns it back into a table when the fire is out. Two tabletop finishes. Wheel it to where the evening is.
There is one more way to have a Regency® fire outside, and it is worth being clear about. The Grandview G600, G800 and G1200 — the 32, the 36 and the 55-inch with 1,200 square inches of glass — are rated for a covered outdoor room as well as a living room, with their logs, their glass and their Cool Wall framing intact. But they are direct-vent fireplaces and stay so outdoors: Regency® is plain that they need their vent run exactly as they would inside. So the fully roofed outdoor room gets a fireplace with a chimney and a log fire behind glass; the open terrace gets a Horizon, with neither.
No flue, no wiring, no woodpile. Just the switch.
An outdoor fire is decided by where it stands. Regency®’s own advice is that how warm one feels depends on the wind and the placement as much as the burner, and that is true: a Horizon set into a wall that takes the prevailing wind, with the seating in its lee, is a different fire from the same unit facing the weather. Then there is the gas — a line trenched from the house or a tank in the frame — the clearances to the eaves and the fence, the framing kit against the masonry, and, in some buildings, the strata to satisfy. That is the work Maxwell Fireplace does in-house: standing on the terrace with you to decide where the fire faces, choosing between the Horizons, the burners and the table, planning the gas run, pulling the permits and installing the fireplace with our own crew. The stone or the stucco around it is planned together with the trades doing it — yours, or ones we bring in — so the wall is built to the kit rather than the other way round. Send us a photograph of the terrace and we will tell you which Regency® belongs on it.
Questions people tend to ask
Does an outdoor gas fireplace need a chimney or a vent?
The Horizon fireplaces and the Plateau burners do not. They are built for open air, where the air itself carries off what the fire makes, so there is no flue to run and no wall to cut through. The one exception is a Grandview installed in a covered outdoor room: it is a direct-vent indoor fireplace and Regency® says plainly that it still needs its vent outside, exactly as it would inside. We tell you which case yours is before anything is ordered.
Will it actually keep us warm outside, or is it just for looking at?
It warms the people near it. The HZO42 puts out 44,500 BTU and the HZO60 and the PTO50 burner 64,000, which is more than most indoor fireplaces, and the heat comes off the flame as radiant warmth rather than heated air, so it reaches the chairs in front of it even when the evening is cool. Regency®’s own advice, and ours, is that wind and placement matter as much as the number: a fire set in a wall out of the prevailing wind, with the seating close and the glass wind shield in place, feels far warmer than the same fire facing the weather. We help you decide where it stands for that reason.
Natural gas or propane?
Either. Every model is made for both, and the fixed ones are usually plumbed to the house’s natural gas so there is never a tank to change. The Plateau fire table is the one designed around propane: an 11-pound tank sits inside its frame, which is what lets it be placed anywhere on the terrace without a gas line. Tell us where the fire is going and we will plan the supply that suits it.
Does it need electricity?
No. The Horizons and the Plateau burners light electronically from a battery, with a weatherproof on-off switch, so there is no electrical line to trench across the garden. A hardwire kit is available if you would rather it ran from the house, as some commercial installations do. The fire table lights from a match and turns down by hand.
Can I build it into a wall or a bench of my own design?
That is exactly what the Plateau burners are for. The PTO30 and PTO50 join end to end into runs of 30, 50, 60, 80 or 100 inches, and Regency® makes framing kits, including a see-through kit for the 30, so a mason or landscaper has a square, tested enclosure to build to. The Horizon HZO42 ships with its own framing kit for the same reason. We handle the fireplace, the gas and the permit, and plan the masonry with the trades doing it — yours, or ones we bring in.
Do the wood-burning rules or the summer fire bans apply to a gas fire?
The indoor wood-burning regulation governs wood, and a gas appliance is outside it altogether. Seasonal campfire bans are a different matter: they generally exempt approved gas and propane appliances, but each municipality and park writes its own rule and some tighten it in a dry summer. Give us the address and we will tell you what applies there.
Where are Regency® outdoor fireplaces made, and where can I see one in Vancouver?
They are built by Fireplace Products International in Delta, British Columbia, a short drive from our showroom. Come to Maxwell Fireplace in North Vancouver and we will walk you through the two Horizons, the Plateau burners and the fire table, the firebed choices, and the framing kits that decide how the wall around them is built. We serve the North Shore, Vancouver and the Sea to Sky corridor.