Put your mind to rest: call Blue Best! 7× best of state winner!•Thank you to our customers across the Wasatch Front for voting Blue Best the best of SLC for heating and air for 2025!•Locally and women-owned and operated HVAC & plumbing company•Put your mind to rest: call Blue Best! 7× best of state winner!•Thank you to our customers across the Wasatch Front for voting Blue Best the best of SLC for heating and air for 2025!•Locally and women-owned and operated HVAC & plumbing company•2025 WINNER
BEST OF STATE
By the Blue Best team · Utah-licensed contractor #12180514-5501
Blue Best isn't just located in Utah. We're locally owned and operated. That means we're invested in Utah. Our owners live here. Our employees raise their families here. When we give back to this community, we're giving back to our own neighborhoods. Blue Best spends its money where it makes it, right here in Utah. That's not marketing language. It's our business model.
Key Takeaways
The skilled trades face a workforce crisis. Experienced technicians are retiring faster than new ones enter the field. Meanwhile, young people are often steered away from trades careers despite the excellent pay, job security, and satisfaction they offer. Blue Best is doing something about it.
We sponsor full tuition, books, and fees for students enrolled in HVAC or plumbing programs at local technical colleges. We fund two scholarships annually: one open scholarship available to any student pursuing HVAC or plumbing certification, and one scholarship specifically for women, because the trades need diverse perspectives, and women remain dramatically underrepresented.
We launched the Trades Scholarship Program in 2023 because we believe in creating opportunities for the next generation. The HVAC and plumbing industries offer careers with genuine upward mobility, excellent compensation, and work that matters, keeping families comfortable and safe in their homes. If we want the industry to thrive, we need to invest in the people who will lead it.
Most HVAC companies lay off workers during slow seasons. Blue Best strives to keep our entire team employed year-round through our Ready, Willing & Able program. During slower periods, we put that time to work for the community.
Barn Days is our paid volunteer initiative. When work slows down, we don't send people home without pay - we send them into the community. Employees receive their regular wages while volunteering with our community partners.
This isn't PR. It's been built into our business model for years as a way to maintain year-round employment while giving back to the community that supports us.
Blue Best partners with HomeAid Utah, an organization that builds and renovates housing for people experiencing homelessness. Our contributions have included:
When people transition out of homelessness, they deserve homes with functioning heating, cooling, and hot water. We helped make that happen.
Blue Best's largest charitable project to date. In partnership with HomeAid, the Seager Memorial Clinic is now a fully operating medical, dental, vision, and mental health care clinic in Ogden that provides free, easy-access care to underserved members of the community. Our contribution:
That's more than 141 Barn Days on this single project - proper climate control and plumbing for a facility that serves those who need it most.
Through Lennox's Feel the Love program, Blue Best has donated complete HVAC systems to families in need, frequently Armed Services Veterans. These aren't refurbished units or basic models - they're full installations of quality equipment, provided at no cost to families who need them.
When a Utah teenager battling cancer came home from treatment to find no heat and no hot water, Blue Best donated the repair. No invoice. Just neighbors helping neighbors when it matters most.
Autism Speaks Autism Speaks is a cause close to our hearts. We support their mission through fundraising, awareness campaigns, and employee participation in events.
Utah Food Bank & Sub for Santa Each year, Blue Best participates in food drives and gift programs to support Utah families during the holidays. Our customers often join these efforts, and we're proud to facilitate their generosity.
Frontline Workers Discount Program We offer ongoing discounts to first responders (police, fire, EMT), military and veterans, medical personnel, and teachers. These are the people who show up for our community every day. We're honored to show up for them.
Local Youth Sports Blue Best sponsors youth sports teams across the Wasatch Front. Youth athletics build character, teach teamwork, and keep kids active - values we believe in supporting.
Utah Falconz We're proud sponsors of the Utah Falconz, a women's semi-professional football team. As a locally and women-owned and operated business, supporting women's professional athletics aligns perfectly with our values. The Falconz represent dedication, teamwork, and breaking barriers - qualities we try to embody at Blue Best.
Blue Best is different. Our owners live here. Our employees' kids go to school here. When we invest in this community, we're investing in our own future, not positioning for an exit. The 2025 Best of State award for Community Development, Large Business recognized this commitment. The revenue threshold for Large Business is relatively low. So, a shop owned by three local families competed with the largest companies in the state on Community Development and won. That's genuine commitment, not performative. And the real recognition, the recognition that matters all day every day, comes from knowing we're building something that serves Utah beyond just our services.
If you represent a nonprofit organization that could benefit from HVAC or plumbing support, we'd love to hear from you. We can't say yes to everyone, but we review every request and help where we can.
If you want to work for a company that values community investment as much as business success, Blue Best might be the right fit. We hire people who share our values - and we give them opportunities to live those values through paid volunteer time.
Contact us about community partnerships
Marty Sloot, Community Outreach Leader
During the slow season, our team members keep their regular wages while spending volunteer days with nonprofit partners.
Yes, a nonprofit can submit a request for assistance with heating, cooling, or plumbing needs. Every request is reviewed carefully, though not every request can be accepted. Nonprofits in Utah are welcome to call 801-801-BEST (2378) to discuss their project and see if we can help.
Blue Best answers the phone and quotes an exact price in writing before any work begins.
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