November 2026

Irrigation systems rarely get attention in November. The turf is going dormant, the beds need less water, and the system mostly runs on its own. Then a hard freeze comes through, a backflow preventer splits, and someone finds water spraying across the parking lot the next morning. In Birmingham, this is one of the more […]

Every fall, a lot of Birmingham homeowners make the same reasonable-sounding plan: wait until the last leaf comes down, then clean it all up at once. One big job instead of several small ones. The problem is that in Central Alabama, “the last leaf” can be a long way off. Maples and sweetgums drop early,