Born and raised in Alberta, Mike has worked a lifetime in various trades. Graduating from Harry Ainlay C.H.S. with a short stint in appliance repair, he found construction and earned his Red Seal Carpenter ticket in ’89 as a member of Local 1325. Continuing to upgrade his skills he became a Journeyman Scaffolder with tickets for first aid, skid steer, forklift, zoom-boom, hoisting & rigging, welding, etc…
After 20 years of life out of town, it was not for him, and he began his exit and reinvention into what you see today. A strange progression from online trading to pressure washers, to security systems, and finally the mechanical trade – gasfitting and HVAC – where he found his calling.
Every skill he’d learned elsewhere was transferable. He apprenticed right away, paid his own way through N.A.I.T., and gained his Red Seal as a Gasfitter.
You might think after all that roaming around he might not be good at what he does, but you would be quite wrong. No matter the task, Mike brings a standard of workmanship to everything he does, which is hard to come by these days, and partly why he’s learned how to do everything he does! It’s the only way to ensure that quality.
Now, some years later, he’s out on his own as Inclined Mechanical Services Ltd., to build his own equity and guarantee that brand of quality to you.
He’s often heard to say “Make it look like it’s meant to be there.” It doesn’t just matter if it simply works, it should also look professionally done, with care to attention and detail. Like everything else, he brought the ethos of union work – do it right, do it once – to residential heating and cooling. That’s what people want. That’s what’s hard to find.
That’s what he has in spades.
Highly efficient and quiet as well.