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The Self-Performance Guarantee

The technician on your roof works for us. Not a broker, not a staffing agency, not whoever answered the dispatch board that morning. That single fact is what makes everything else on this site possible.

Our commitment, in one line

Every maintenance visit, diagnostic, and repair is performed by an SBS-NC employee.

If a scope ever requires a licensed trade outside HVAC — steel, roofing, an electrical service upgrade — we tell you before it happens, not after you see it on an invoice.

The short answer

SBS-NC, LLC is a self-performing commercial HVAC contractor — every preventative maintenance visit, diagnostic, and repair is completed by our own W-2 employed technicians, never brokered to a subcontractor. Self-performance removes the 15–40% subcontractor markup that national brokers add to your invoice, cuts the handoff delay out of dispatch, and leaves exactly one company accountable for the work, the warranty, and the phone call when something goes wrong. Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, EPA-certified, and covered under our own liability and workers' compensation policies. Headquartered in High Point, NC with our own crews stationed throughout the Southeast — North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee — since 1992. Call (336) 234-4979.

Why It Matters

What you actually get out of it.

Self-performance isn't a slogan — it changes the cost, the clock, and the conversation.

01

You stop paying the middleman

When a broker or national aggregator takes your service call, they find a local contractor and mark that contractor's price up before it reaches your invoice — commonly 15 to 40 percent. Hiring the contractor directly deletes that layer. On a portfolio doing dozens of calls a year, it is the single largest line of avoidable spend.

02

The clock starts when you call, not when a sub accepts

A brokered call burns hours in the handoff: intake, vendor search, dispatch acceptance, then a technician who hears the symptom thirdhand. Our dispatcher and our technicians are in the same building. Contract customers get dispatched directly, 24/7, with no queue in between.

03

One phone number, one person accountable

You call (336) 234-4979 and reach the company that will be on your roof. No vendor portal, no ticket number at a third party, and never the situation where the contractor and the invoicing company blame each other while your building stays hot.

04

The warranty doesn't depend on a stranger

We warranty our labor because we performed it. That coverage isn't contingent on whether a subcontractor is still in business, still on the broker's approved list, or still willing to come back for a callback they won't be paid for.

05

The same techs, learning your building

Turnover in a subcontractor pool means a new person relearning your site every visit. Our technicians return to the same equipment year over year — they know which RTU has the weak compressor and which economizer sticks, so problems get caught early instead of diagnosed from scratch.

06

No incentive to inflate the findings

A contractor paid per work order has a reason to find work. We are paid to keep your equipment running under a maintenance agreement, which makes an honest repair-versus-replace recommendation the profitable one for us too.

An SBS-NC technician with digital manifold gauges at his stocked service van
What self-performance looks like

Uniformed. Badged. On our payroll.

This is the difference the guarantee describes: an SBS-NC technician with company equipment and a stocked company van — not a subcontractor found through a network. The person who diagnoses your equipment answers to the same company that signed your contract.

Side by Side

Self-performed vs. brokered.

The same service call, run two different ways.

 
SBS-NC self-performed
Brokered / subcontracted
Who arrives
An SBS-NC W-2 employee, uniformed and background-checked
Whichever contractor accepted the work order
Your cost
Contractor pricing, direct
Contractor pricing plus 15–40% broker markup
Dispatch time
Straight from our own schedule; 24/7 for contract customers
Intake, vendor search, then acceptance before anyone moves
Point of contact
One number, one dispatcher, one invoice
A portal, a ticket queue, and two companies
Equipment history
Same crew, same records, year over year
Restarts with whoever shows up
Labor warranty
Held by SBS-NC directly
Depends on the sub still being in the network
Insurance & licensing
Our policy, our license, verifiable on request
Varies by sub; verification is on you

Markup range reflects typical third-party facility-management and HVAC brokerage arrangements; your actual figures depend on the agreement in place.

An SBS-NC employed technician servicing a rooftop chiller — self-performed, not subcontracted
Our badge, our truck, our name on it

Every technician who shows up at your building is on our payroll, in our uniform, carrying our certifications, and covered under our insurance. When they leave, the warranty stays with the company you hired — not with whoever happened to take the work order that week.

For Multi-Site Portfolios

One standard at every location.

The usual way to cover a portfolio across six states is to hire a broker who hires a different local sub in every market. You get eight vendors, eight quality levels, eight invoicing formats, and no one who can tell you what condition the equipment is actually in.

We staff our own crews across the Southeast and travel them for planned work, so reactive calls get covered regionally by our people. Same checklist, same reporting, same company that saw the unit last spring.

W-2 employees, not 1099s

Background-checked, uniformed, EPA-certified, and covered under our liability and workers' comp — never a labor broker's headcount.

Equipment history that follows the site

Because it's the same company every visit, we know what failed last year and what we're watching this year.

One invoice, one warranty, one phone number

No triangulating between the company you paid and the company that showed up.

Common Questions

Self-performance FAQ.

What does a self-performing HVAC contractor mean?
A self-performing contractor completes the work with its own employed technicians rather than brokering the job out. At SBS-NC, the technician who arrives at your facility is our employee, in our truck, trained by us, insured under our policy, and accountable to us.
Does SBS-NC ever use subcontractors?
No — not for HVAC maintenance, diagnostics, or repair. On rare specialty scopes outside our trade, such as structural steel, roofing penetrations, or an electrical service upgrade, we bring in a licensed partner and tell you before it happens rather than after.
How does self-performance save money?
A broker marks the local contractor's price up 15 to 40 percent before it reaches your invoice. Going direct removes that layer. It also removes the incentive to over-report findings, since we aren't paid per work order generated.
How does self-performance reduce downtime?
Brokered calls lose time in the handoff — intake, vendor search, acceptance, and a symptom relayed thirdhand. We dispatch off our own schedule, and our techs already know your equipment from prior visits, so the diagnosis starts on arrival instead of from zero.
Who do I talk to when something goes wrong?
The same people every time. Call (336) 234-4979 or email service@sbs-nc.com and you reach SBS-NC dispatch directly. There's no scenario where the company on your roof and the company on your invoice are two different businesses pointing at each other.
Who warranties the work?
SBS-NC does. Because our own employees performed the labor, our labor warranty isn't contingent on a subcontractor still being in business or still under contract with us. Manufacturer product warranties pass through on equipment we supply.
Can a self-performing contractor really cover six states?
Yes. We staff our own crews throughout the Southeast rather than running everything out of one office, and we travel our own technicians for planned work across North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee. Multi-site customers get the same standard at every location instead of a different local sub in every market.
Are SBS-NC technicians employees or 1099 contractors?
Employees. Our technicians are W-2, background-checked, uniformed, EPA-certified, and covered under our general liability and workers' compensation policies.

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