Klebs: keeping Alaskans safe and warm since 1986.

• Position: Business Profile - Klebs Heating & Air

Commercial contractors and residential clientele who insist on flawless heating, ventilation and air conditioning services, plus a variety of related work, will want to know about KLEBS quality customer care.

"Quality customer care is not just a slogan here," declares Gary Klebs, founder and president of the company that bears his name. In business since 1986, the firm has grown and evolved from the time when he was the estimator, bid writer, and sole employee with a pickup truck and a toolbox. Today the diversified company employs more than 60 technical and supervisory personnel; has gross annual revenues in excess of $7 million; has 38 pieces of rolling stock; and four operating divisions, including commercial sheet metal, plumbing, 24-hour emergency service and residential.

TRUST AND RELY ON KLEBS

Known throughout Alaska for many years as Klebs Heating & Air, the company has expanded, diversified and upgraded its services to meet the changing demands of its Alaskan customer base. Contractors have come to rely on the superior workmanship that has become an industry standard against which others in Alaska have been measured.

Journeyman plumbers are assisted by skilled apprentices and provide a broad range of services, such as radiant floor heating, snowmelt systems, boiler-baseboard heating, gas piping, and systems design and engineering.

The commercial sheet metal department, for which KLEBS has perhaps become best known for over time, accounts for slightly more than half of the work performed in Alaska. Technicians provide quality, state-of-the-art installations for both large commercial structures and private residential owners who specify custom work, design and application. Significant contracts have been with Fred Meyer One Stop Shopping outlets across Southcentral Alaska, where the company has been engaged in new construction as well as extensive remodel work. Other major projects for which KLEBS has been employed as a subcontractor include work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at military installations that are engaged in new construction and renovation work.

"While we are qualified to execute these major projects," Klebs states, "we still enjoy...