Here's something weird about Alabama winters: your house can feel like the Sahara Desert one week and a Louisiana swamp the next. Both situations are miserable, both are hard on your house, and both can make your family sick. At Southeastern Mechanical Services, we get ...

If you've lived in a two-story home in Decatur for more than one winter, you've probably noticed something weird. Your downstairs feels like a meat locker while your upstairs bedrooms are toasty, right? Except wait, that's backwards. Heat rises, so the upstairs should be ...

It's 2:17 AM. You wake up because you're cold. Like, genuinely cold. Not just "forgot the extra blanket" cold, but the kind where you can see your breath hanging in the air above your bed. Your first thought is probably something unprintable, followed immediately ...

You know how Alabama winter storms go. The forecast shows up 72 hours out, everyone hits the grocery store for bread and milk, and then we either get walloped with ice or watch it miss us entirely. But here's what most Decatur homeowners don't ...

If you've lived in North Alabama for more than a year, you already know about red clay. It stains everything, turns into cement when it dries, and becomes a slippery nightmare when wet. What you might not realize is that this same soil is quietly ...

You've probably found yourself standing in your driveway on one of those weird Alabama February days when it's 70 degrees at lunch and 35 degrees by dinner, wondering what the heck kind of heating system makes sense in this climate. Most people assume furnaces are ...