Basingstoke's Gas Saferegistered 593588 engineer.Qualified since 2011.

SFB Heating and Cooling is run by Sam Ibbs from 3 Mansfield Road in Basingstoke. Sam completed his apprenticeship in 2011 and has worked in domestic heating ever since, adding F-Gas certification so the same business can handle both sides of a modern home: keeping it warm in January and keeping it liveable in July.

The customers are homeowners and landlords. Homeowners come with a boiler that has given up, radiators that never get hot at the far end of the house, weak mains pressure at the shower, or a bedroom that is unusable in a heatwave. Landlords come for CP12 certificates, tenant call-outs and replacement boilers that need doing between tenancies without drama.

What the business specialises in is the full domestic mechanical package under one Gas Safe number: boiler installation, repair and servicing, full central heating installations, powerflushing, unvented hot water cylinders, general plumbing, landlord gas safety certificates, emergency call-outs, and domestic air conditioning installation and servicing. Because it is all in-house, nobody is left coordinating three different trades who each blame the other.

Coverage runs from the Basingstoke base out across north Hampshire — Basingstoke, Hook, Hartley Wintney, Tadley, Andover, Kingsclere, Overton, Micheldever, Aldermaston and the villages between them. Working within that radius is deliberate: it keeps travel short, keeps return visits practical, and means a warranty call in two years is still a local job rather than an inconvenience.

The office side is handled by Beth, so calls get answered and bookings get made while Sam is under a floor somewhere. Normal hours are 8am–5pm, monday to friday, with out-of-hours emergency call-outs for no heat, no hot water and leaks.