Traditional & Radiant Gas Fireplaces
Built-in gas fires with a proper log set and real warmth. The fireplace as most people picture it, with the glass, the logs and the heat taken seriously.
Warmth first
Not every room wants a ribbon of flame. Some want a fireplace: a firebox the height of a log fire, a proper set of logs in it, a surround or a mantel, and the kind of heat you feel across the room on a cold night. The gas fires in this group do that, and they do it without the compromises the older ones asked for. The glass disappears or nearly does, the logs are cast from real wood, and the burners are built to heat, some of them without a fan or a single watt of electricity.
Town & Country, which invented the clean-face fireplace, makes four sizes from the TC30 to the TC54 with disappearing glass and a flush hearth, so a gas fire finally reads as an open one. Regency’s Grandview comes in three sizes with the largest viewing area in its class and a Cool Wall for the television above. The Marquis Bentley pairs a pan burner and a real-scale log fire with a valve that runs when the power is out. And Valor’s H Series, H3 and Portrait are radiant heaters: fanless, silent, still warming the room through a power outage, from the slim H3 built for a condominium retrofit to the tall, narrow Portrait with a face for every room.
A traditional fireplace is judged by its proportions. The firebox has to be drawn against the wall and the ceiling, the hearth against the floor, the mantel against the maker’s clearances, and the vent against the house. That is where Maxwell Fireplace comes in: choosing among the four makers with you, and the logs, the liner and the front; planning the vent run and the framing to the maker’s drawings; pulling the permit; and installing the fireplace with our own crew. The mantel, the stone or the tile around it we plan together with the trades doing it — yours, or ones we bring in. Send us a photograph of the wall and we will tell you which of these it was made for.
The traditional fires we feature
Each one has its own page. Read the story, then come and see it.
The Marquis Bentley
A traditional gas fireplace in 34, 39, 42 and 48 inch sizes and a see-through, with a pan burner, a real-scale log fire behind an expanse of glass, and a valve that runs when the power is out. Built in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Regency® Grandview Series
A big traditional fire in three sizes — the largest viewing area in its class, a split-flow Infusion Burner, and a Cool Wall that keeps the wall above cool. Built in BC.
Town & Country Traditional
The house that invented the clean-face fireplace — four sizes from the TC30 to the TC54, disappearing glass and a flush hearth, so a gas fire finally reads as an open one.
The Valor H Series
Four sizes, one radiant idea — fanless warmth that keeps heating when the power goes out, from the compact H3 to the large-format H6.
The Valor H3
Built for the condo retrofit — slim direct-vent, B-Vent ready, and installed entirely in-house.
Valor Portrait
Tall, narrow, and built for almost any wall — a radiant gas heater with a face for every room, modern or heritage.
Questions people tend to ask
Does a gas fireplace still work when the power goes out?
Several of these do. Valor’s H Series, H3 and Portrait are radiant, fanless fires that need no electricity, and the Marquis Bentley’s valve keeps running when the power is out. For a home that loses power in a storm, that is the whole argument.
Can I have a mantel?
Yes. Every maker publishes the clearance from the top of the fireplace to a combustible mantel, and Regency’s Cool Wall on the Grandview keeps the wall above cool enough for a television as well. We plan the mantel height to the manual before the wall is framed, and the mantel itself is built by the trades doing it.
How real do the logs look?
Closer than most people expect. The log sets are cast from real wood and lit from below and behind, and Town & Country’s disappearing glass and flush hearth take away the last things that gave a gas fire away. Come and see them in our showroom.
Which size do I need?
The room decides. The Valor H3 and the smaller Town & Country sizes suit a condominium or a bedroom; the larger Valor H Series, the Grandview and the Bentley the ordinary living room; the TC54 and the largest Grandview the great room. We draw the fireplace on the wall before we recommend one.
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 traditional fire belongs with us. A log fire behind glass only pays off if the firebox was drawn to the wall, the mantel was planned to the clearances rather than around them, and the vent was run before the wall was framed — 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 — and we’d love to show you what’s possible for your room.