It’s official, Sanibel Air Conditioning, Inc. and Sanctuary Island Electric, Inc. have merged to become Sanibel Air and Electric, Inc. The family-owned businesses got its start in 1988 when founder Dan Hayes moved to Sanibel from New Jersey and opened Sanibel Repair Service and began providing quality heating and air service to those living on the islands. Hayes was later joined by his sons Bryan Hayes and Todd Hayes who would eventually take over running the business after he retired in 2006.
Since coming on board, the brothers made a few changes. Sanibel Repair Service was officially renamed as Sanibel Air Conditioning in 1998 and Sanctuary Island Electric was started by the brothers in 2007 to help maintain the high volume of electrical repair requests, and allow them to establish a new business.
Today the company has grown to 12 employees and 8 service trucks, but its vision, as coined by Dan Hayes, remains the same, ”To provide our customers with quality, reliable service, being there when you need us, and remembering our customer’s names.”
“When we first started Sanctuary Island Electric, we wanted to give the business a chance to get settled in on its own. And now we decided that the time has come for us to merge them because we had achieved what we had hoped to – a solid business with a good reputation and a necessary service on the islands,” said Bryan Hayes, co-owner of Sanibel Air and Electric. “We are still the same company, still owned and run by the same family, and still the only island-based air conditioning business. We have been servicing the island communities for over 25 years, and we are hoping to continue providing them with great service when they need it.”
