Heating and air conditioning in Smiths Station.

Working in Smiths Station

What we actually run into here.

Smiths Station was incorporated in 2001, but it had been growing long before that as a bedroom community for Opelika and Phenix City, especially after Highway 280 went to four lanes in the early 1980s. It grew in stages, so older homes and brand-new construction share the same roads. A house in Wisteria Cove and a house a mile down the Lee Road can need completely different things: one wants its first $49 tune-up and a check of the builder install, the other wants an honest talk about HVAC replacement in Smiths Station versus one more repair.

The city's own utility list names Alabama Power for electricity, and Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative keeps an office on Lee Road 243 for its members in this part of Lee County. The same list has no natural gas provider, and the city points residents to a local propane company. If your house has no gas line, your heat comes from a heat pump, electric strips or a propane furnace, and each fails in its own way. Owner Michael Stewart is NATE certified in heat pumps, and that training covers the equipment behind most heating repair in Smiths Station calls in all-electric homes.

Summers here are long and humid. An AC that holds 74 degrees but leaves the house clammy is not doing its whole job. Usually that comes down to airflow, a dirty coil or a system sized too big for the house. Sometimes it takes AC repair; sometimes it takes a whole-home dehumidifier from our indoor air quality work. We measure first and tell you which.

One local quirk: much of Smiths Station keeps Eastern time even though Alabama officially runs on Central, and City Hall posts its hours in Eastern. When you book, say which clock you're on so the arrival window means what you think it means.

Where we work in Smiths Station

Roads, neighborhoods and nearby towns.

We cover the whole city and the unincorporated Lee County roads around it. That includes the streets near City Hall on Panther Parkway and Lee Road 430, newer neighborhoods like Wisteria Cove off Carden Road and Smiths Walk, established streets like Shadow Wood Drive and White Oak Place, and the homes along US 280 and 431.

Toward the Chattahoochee, we work Goat Rock Estates, Lake Oliver Road and the Lee Road 315 area, and north of town around Lake Harding. Out here a standby generator keeps the AC running through an outage, and a ductless mini-split is the simple way to cool a boathouse, workshop or screened porch.

Nearby, we also cover Phenix City HVAC · Ladonia HVAC · Salem HVAC · Opelika HVAC