Reverse cycle heating, heat pump hot water, induction cooking, solar, a battery and an EV charger, planned together and installed in the order that suits you. Electricians, plumbers and ARC licensed technicians, all our own.
Many Baxter households are part way there without calling it electrification. Some have solar. Some have a split system for summer. Our written-up Baxter job added solar, a battery and heat pump hot water in one go. What usually remains is the heating, which on the acreage tends to be wood or LPG, the cooktop, and later an EV charger.
Baxter sits inland, and winter mornings here are colder than on the bay, so heating is the stage we size most carefully. In township homes with a roof space, ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts covers the house. Homes that have been extended, or have raked ceilings, often suit a multi-head or several splits. Reverse cycle heats for around a third of the running cost of gas heating.
Before any of it, we look at the boards. Older township houses can have an original switchboard, and acreage properties often have sub-boards in sheds. Our home electrification Baxter plans start there, then set out each step in order with its own price. More on our local work is on the Baxter page.
A typical order for a Baxter home. Yours may differ, and the plan says why.
The main switchboard and any shed sub-boards are checked for capacity and protection, and single or three-phase confirmed. Any upgrade is done first, so every later stage has room.
Jinko panels and a Sigenergy, GoodWe or Tesla battery sized for the finished house, with a heat pump hot water unit timed to run on the midday solar. This is the stage our Baxter job covered.
Ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 ducts, one to two days, or multi-head and splits that take a few hours each. Braemar, Mitsubishi Electric or Hisense, sized for the coldest morning, AirTouch 5 for zoning.
An induction cooktop on its own circuit, and a Tesla, Sigenergy or GoodWe HCA charger set to fill the car from solar. When these are done, there are no gas appliances left.
The full range is on our products page.
Ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 ducts, or split systems, in place of ducted gas or a wall furnace.
A heat pump in place of the gas storage or instantaneous unit, usually changed over in one day.
The last gas appliance in most kitchens, replaced with induction on its own circuit.
Solar and storage sized for the new electric load, with an EV charger on the same system.
Three written-up whole-home jobs down the Peninsula. None is in Baxter.
In Mount Martha, heating, hot water and cooking all went electric and the gas line was removed. A 10kW Sigen hybrid inverter, backup gateway and 24.18kWh of SigenStor went in with 15.2kW of panels, in one day.
Another Mount Martha home had its hallway gas wall furnace replaced with reverse cycle, plus an Emerald heat pump, 29 Jinko panels on tile and a 27.12kWh SigenStor. The upgraded switchboard has every circuit labelled.
Down in Blairgowrie, a double-storey home on a single-phase board was rewired to three phase, then gas heating, hot water and cooking replaced with Mitsubishi Electric splits, a heat pump and induction.
One inspection covers the whole property, sheds included.
House, sheds, the appliances on LPG or wood, and what is already electric.
Main and sub-boards, capacity and supply, with any upgrade written in as the first stage.
Usually what saves most first, but budget and timing decide it.
Fixed, with the incentives for each item applied where they fit.
Each stage done by our own electricians, plumbers and ARC licensed technicians.
No single rebate covers electrification. Each item has its own rules.
The federal Cheaper Home Batteries discount, around 30 percent, no income test. There is no Solar Victoria battery rebate or loan.
VEU discounts on reverse cycle heating and cooling and on heat pump hot water. STCs on heat pump hot water too.
Solar Victoria rebate and loan on panels and inverters for eligible owner-occupiers, plus STCs. Induction cooktops and EV chargers have no rebate and are quoted at a fixed price.
The heating, the plumbing, the boards and the solar are all done by our people.
REC 32300 electrical, ARC licensed AU 065299, BPC 132072, SAA accredited for solar and batteries.
We size reverse cycle for cold inland mornings. See heating and cooling in Baxter.
More than 10,000 products installed across Melbourne, every one by our own staff.
Stages spread over months are easy to schedule from Somerville.
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Usually heat pump hot water, timed to the solar, then the heating. We check whether the existing system is big enough for the later stages or needs adding to.
It can. If the shed will host a charger or a battery, or already runs pumps and tools, its sub-board needs to suit. We check it with the main board.
Yes, if it is sized for them. We size each room for the coldest part of the day and set schedules so the house is warm when you get up.
An induction cooktop goes on its own circuit. It has no rebate, so it is a fixed price. Often it is the last gas appliance to go.
Once heating, hot water and cooking are electric, there are no gas appliances left, so you can stop buying LPG or paying for a gas connection you no longer use.
After one inspection, each stage gets a fixed price. Every home electrification Baxter plan we write is specific to the house and its boards.
One visit, a staged written plan and a fixed price for each step. No obligation.
