07-14-2024 Baltimore's Best - Flipbook - Page 16
16 The Baltimore Sun | Sunday, July 14, 2024
THE BALTIMORE SUN’S BEST READERS’ CHOICE 2024 HOME & GARDEN
SM Mechanical owner and founder Sean Mallonee, left, and his employees install a multi-split, super high efficiency heat pump at a job in Annapolis. SM Mechanical was voted Baltimore’s Best
HVAC by readers. LLOYD FOX/STAFF
BEST HVAC
SM MECHANICAL
7110 Golden Ring Rd # 116, Essex. 443-559-5314. smmechanicalhvac.com.
When SM Mechanical owner Sean Mallonee opened the Essex-based
plumbing, HVAC, electrical and home performance business in 2009, he
worked solo. Now, he has a team of close to 20 employees — and HVAC
repairs and installations make up the bulk of their work.
“That’s the most amount of work that we do, and we feel that’s where
we really excel,” Mallonee, 44, said. “We’ve done a really good job at growing our customer bases and keeping them happy.”
Mallonee grew up in Middle River and has been doing plumbing and
HVAC work since he was 13 years old and got a job working at the same
company as his grandfather, which he continued through the summers
as a student at Calvert Hall College High School and the University of
Miami. Starting his own business felt like a “natural fit,” he said.
At SM Mechanical, summer is the busiest season for HVAC work, he
said, because “people are just far more uncomfortable when they have no
air conditioning” than if they’re without heat in the winter, when they can
bundle up or get by with space heaters.
HVAC installations can typically be done within a week or two,
but the wait can be longer in the summer depending on variables like
weather, Mallonee said. Service calls can be handled as quickly as the
same day.
The business focuses primarily on residential work in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Annapolis, Bel Air and Columbia.
“We’re always going to be empathetic. We’re always going to treat the
customer’s home like it’s our own,” he said. “Not only with the install and
not only with the work, but also in how we approach what the work’s
going to be, what we’re going to do. I feel like that’s where we shine.”
“The best part of the job is making customers happy,” he added.
— Abigail Gruskin
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