Stûv Fireplaces & Wood Stoves
Belgian-designed, built in Quebec, and burning in our North Vancouver showroom. Maxwell Fireplace has carried Stûv since 2014.
North Vancouver · the North Shore · Whistler
Stûv began in Belgium in 1983, in Wallonia, where the word stûv meant, quite simply, a wood-burning stove. In the more than forty years since, it has gone on making that stove as quietly and as carefully as it can be made: steel, glass, and a firebox that does its work without drawing attention to itself. The circumflex is part of the name, and it is how we write it. Every Stûv sold in North America is designed in Belgium and built in Quebec, where it has been made and certified to North American standards since 2007.
We have carried Stûv since 2014, long enough to have learned the particulars of each firebox — the venting runs, the clearances, the cladding sequences — and to have installed them in rooms of every kind. In our showroom the Stûv 21, the Stûv 30 Compact and the Stûv 16-In are lit, with the 16 Cube and the 16 V standing beside them, so you can stand in front of a burning Stûv and understand in ten seconds what a photograph cannot explain. The story of those years is told in A Decade with Stûv, and the thank-you we wrote after IDS Vancouver is here.
A Stûv is only as good as the chimney behind it. We measure the room, plan the flue and the hearth, prepare the permit and tell you what the bylaw registration asks, and install the stove, insert or fireplace with our own crew. Our technicians are WETT-certified, and we WETT-certify the wood-burning appliances we install. The surround, the mantel, the tile or the millwork we plan together with the trades doing it — yours, or ones we bring in.
- Dealer
- Maxwell Fireplace, North Vancouver — Stûv since 2014
- Showroom
- 1380 Pemberton Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7P 2R7 · Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm · 604-987-1293
- Lit on the floor
- Stûv 21, Stûv 30 Compact and Stûv 16-In, with the 16 Cube and 16 V beside them
- Installed by
- Our own crew, WETT-certified, from the North Shore to Whistler
- Where we work
- Greater Vancouver, the North Shore and the Sea to Sky Corridor, including Whistler
The Stûv range we feature
Each one has its own page, with the sizes, the certification and the questions people ask.
Stûv 16
Three forms, the Cube, the H and the V, each in three sizes. One quiet idea: engineering, designed to disappear.
Stûv 16-In
The EPA-certified wood insert that retrofits into the masonry fireplace you already have.
Stûv 21
A fireplace reduced to fire — a frameless guillotine glass that rises to turn one hearth into two: a clean closed fire, or an open one. Single-faced, see-through, and the pre-clad Stûv 21 Clad.
Stûv 30 Compact
A slim black drum that turns through a full circle, with three doors for three ways to burn: a closed fire, a heater for the night, and the occasional grill.
Stûv 6-H
A small wood stove with everything unnecessary taken out — a patented firebox that narrows behind to push the fire forward, and air it regulates itself. Certified for a wood fire in Metro Vancouver and eligible to register under Bylaw 1303.
Stûv 6-in
The small wood insert for the small masonry hearth: a wide view of the fire in a smaller opening, certified for a wood fire in Metro Vancouver.
Up the Sea to Sky, to Whistler
For a great many Vancouver households, the room with the wood fire is the second home in Whistler: the chalet, the townhouse, the cabin under the trees. It is about an hour and a half up the Sea to Sky from North Vancouver, and the people who visit our showroom often ask whether we work there. We do. We are in Whistler regularly, and we know many of the contractors there, which matters more than it sounds: a wood fire in a mountain house is a chimney, a permit, a hearth and a wall, and all four are best settled with the people who will build them.
Come and see a Stûv burning in North Vancouver, bring photographs or plans of the house, and we will go through the options and the pricing with you at the showroom. In Whistler, as everywhere, we check what your address requires before anything is ordered. Whistler sits outside Metro Vancouver, so Bylaw 1303 does not apply there, but the Resort Municipality of Whistler asks for a permit to install or alter a wood stove, insert or fireplace, and we prepare it. More on fireplaces for Whistler homes.
A wood fire, certified model by model
Metro Vancouver’s Residential Indoor Wood Burning Emission Regulation Bylaw 1303 asks that a wood-burning appliance be certified to CSA B415.1 or the EPA’s 2015 standard, and that an eligible appliance inside the Urban Containment Boundary be registered. Since 15 September 2025, an unregistered appliance there may not be operated at all, and the owner files a best-burning-practices declaration, renewed every three years.
Stûv lists the 6-H, the 16, the 16-In and the 6-in as certified to EPA and CSA B415.1-22, the 30 Compact as EPA certified, and publishes each model’s emissions figure on its own product pages. The 21 and the 21 Clad are fireplaces, and what may be burned in them depends on the model and the address, so we confirm it before anything is ordered. Certification is checked model by model, and we WETT-certify the wood-burning appliances we install.
Questions people tend to ask
Do you sell Stûv in Vancouver, and can I see one burning?
Yes. Maxwell Fireplace has carried Stûv since 2014, and the Stûv 21, the Stûv 30 Compact and the Stûv 16-In are lit on our showroom floor at 1380 Pemberton Avenue in North Vancouver, with the 16 Cube and the 16 V beside them. We are open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 4. Stûv lists us on its own dealer locator, and we install everything we sell.
Is it Stuv or Stûv, and what does the name mean?
Stûv is the maker’s spelling, and the circumflex belongs to the name: in Walloon, the regional language of southern Belgium, stûv meant a wood-burning stove. Most people type it without the accent, so you will see it written Stuv in search boxes and web addresses, ours included. It is the same Belgian maker either way.
Which Stûv is right for my room?
It starts with the kind of fire. The 6-H is the small, freestanding wood stove. The 16 is the stove family that hides its mechanism, in Cube, H and V forms and three sizes. The 16-In is the insert for a masonry fireplace you already have, and the 6-in is the same idea for a smaller hearth. The 21 is a built-in wood fireplace whose glass rises for an open fire, single-faced or see-through, and the 21 Clad is the same fire delivered pre-clad to stand in the room. The 30 Compact, a stove that turns to face the room, is lit in our showroom too. Bring a photograph and we will tell you which one the room can hold.
How much does a Stûv cost?
It depends less on the stove than on everything around it: the model and width, whether it is single- or double-faced or the Clad, the finish, and the chimney, the hearth and the installation your room needs. Two homes with the same stove can arrive at quite different figures, so we do not publish a price list. Visit the showroom with photographs or plans and we will go through the options and the pricing with you there.
Is a Stûv certified for a wood fire in Metro Vancouver?
The 6-H, the 16, the 16-In and the 6-in are listed by Stûv as EPA and CSA B415.1-22 certified, and the 30 Compact as EPA certified, which is what Bylaw 1303 asks for; the owner registers the appliance, and we tell you what that involves. The 21 and the 21 Clad are fireplaces, so we confirm what is permitted at your address before anything is ordered. Certification is checked model by model, and width by width.
Do you install Stûv in Whistler?
Yes. Many of the people who visit our showroom have a second home in Whistler and ask whether we work there. We do, and we are in Whistler regularly. Come and see the fires burning, talk through the room and the chimney with us, and we will go through the options and the pricing at the showroom. The measuring, the permit and the installation are ours, as they are on every Maxwell Fireplace job, and we WETT-certify the wood-burning appliances we install. Whistler is outside Metro Vancouver, so Bylaw 1303 does not apply there, but the Resort Municipality of Whistler requires a permit to install or alter a wood stove, insert or fireplace, and we prepare it. Anything around the fire, a surround, a mantel, tile or millwork, we plan with the trades doing it: yours, or ones we bring in.
Who installs a Stûv, and what does WETT certification mean?
Our own crew, from the flue to the finished hearth. WETT, Wood Energy Technology Transfer, is the Canadian non-profit that trains and certifies wood-burning technicians and inspectors. Our technicians are WETT-certified, and we WETT-certify the wood-burning appliances we install. We certify only what we install; for a stove installed elsewhere, WETT’s own directory lists independent inspectors.
A fireplace is only half of it. The other half is who places it.
Maxwell Fireplace is North Vancouver’s Creative FireSpaces™ — and we stay involved in every part of the job. The fireplace itself is ours from the first conversation to the final flame: design and placement, permitting, delivery, installation, and the care that comes after. When the work runs to a surround, a mantel, tile or millwork, we plan it with the trades doing it — yours, or ones we bring in — so the fire and the wall are drawn as one thing rather than two. One point of contact, and nothing lost in the gap between trades.
It’s exactly why a Stûv belongs with us. Fires this considered ask for a chimney planned before the stove is chosen, clearances drawn against the real wall and floor, and a finish carried cleanly to the edge of the glass — and that is the difference between an appliance and a centrepiece. We serve homeowners and contractors across Greater Vancouver, the North Shore, and the Sea to Sky Corridor — Squamish to Whistler and Pemberton, with Whistler a regular destination for us — and we’d love to show you what’s possible for your room.