Ducted gas heating, a gas hot water tank and a gas cooktop: the standard Carrum Downs set. We replace them with reverse cycle, a heat pump and induction, add solar and a battery, and plan the order from the first inspection.
Nearly every Carrum Downs home built between the 1980s and the 2000s came with the same three gas appliances: ducted heating in the roof, a storage hot water tank on an outside wall and a cooktop in the kitchen. Home electrification Carrum Downs style is therefore a fairly predictable job, which is good news, because predictable jobs can be planned properly.
The houses help too. A single storey under a tiled hip roof means there is room to work in the roof space, so the old gas ducts can come out and new R1.5 insulated ducts go in, rather than a new unit being bolted onto thirty-year-old flex. The same roof has broad, unshaded faces for solar, and the garage at one end gives a battery somewhere sensible to live, close to the board.
The board is where we start. Early 1980s switchboards often need replacing before a ducted system, a heat pump and an induction cooktop are added, while late 1990s boards usually have room. We check it at the first inspection and build the plan around it, as with the rest of our Carrum Downs work.
Four pieces of work. Done together or staged, they are planned as one.
A Braemar, Mitsubishi Electric or Hisense ducted unit on new R1.5 insulated ducts, zoned with AirTouch 5, typically one to two days on site. It heats for around a third of the running cost of gas heating and cools every room.
Emerald, Reclaim, iStore or Haier, usually in the old tank's position on the side of the house, normally swapped in one day by our plumber and electrician.
An induction cooktop on its own circuit. When it is in and the other two are done, there are no gas appliances left and no reason to keep a gas account.
Panels across the hip roof faces sized for the electric house, a battery in the garage for the evening, and an EV charger if a car is coming. The board is checked and upgraded first where needed.
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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.
Not in Carrum Downs. Mordialloc, Doreen and Mount Martha show each piece of the swap on homes of a similar kind.
Up the coast in Mordialloc, the gas cooktop was replaced with induction on its own circuit, alongside 13.3kW of Jinko solar on tile and a 24.96kWh GoodWe battery on the southern wall beside the switchboard.
The same three gas appliances a Carrum Downs home has, replaced by one team in one job: 23.5kW ducted reverse cycle with 12 vents and seven AirTouch 5 zones, a Reclaim CO2 heat pump and induction.
A hallway gas wall furnace was decommissioned and replaced with reverse cycle, an Emerald heat pump took over the hot water, and 29 Jinko panels and 27.12kWh of SigenStor went on. The switchboard was upgraded with every circuit labelled.
You decide how fast. We make sure every stage fits the next.
Roof space, ducts, hot water tank, cooktop, switchboard and roof faces, all on one visit.
Keep, add to or replace, decided first because every stage depends on it.
Often heating or hot water first, whichever is older, with solar early to carry the new load.
Each stage quoted with its own incentive shown, so you can do one now and the next later.
Refrigeration techs, plumbers and electricians from Powerband on every stage.
The incentives do not bundle. Each applies to its own piece of work.
Victorian Energy Upgrades discounts apply to reverse cycle heating and cooling and to heat pump hot water. The heat pump also gets STCs. More detail on our Carrum Downs heating and cooling page.
Around 30 percent off an approved battery, federal, with no income test. There is no Solar Victoria battery rebate or loan.
For eligible owner-occupiers, a rebate and interest-free loan on solar panels and inverters, plus STCs. Induction and EV chargers carry no rebate.
No coordinating three companies across three years.
Electrical, plumbing and refrigeration by Powerband employees. REC 32300, BPC 132072, ARC licensed AU 065299.
In a single-storey Carrum Downs home there is room to fit new R1.5 ducts, so that is what we quote.
More than 5,000 Melbourne homes started on electrification and over 10,000 products installed.
Over 20 years of electrical work behind the plan, from a depot about 19 minutes away in Somerville.
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Questions on home electrification Carrum Downs owners ask most. Call 0466 355 441 for the rest.
With the oldest one, or with solar if everything is fairly new. The plan sets the order so each stage is ready for the next.
In a single-storey Carrum Downs home we replace them with new R1.5 insulated ducts. A Braemar Dominator on existing ducts is only for homes where the ducts cannot be replaced, usually double-storey.
Often not with everything added. We check it first and include any upgrade in the plan, leaving room for later stages.
Ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 ducts typically takes one to two days, a heat pump swap normally one day, and an induction cooktop is a short job on its own circuit.
Not to go electric, but a family home uses most of its power from late afternoon. A battery moves your own solar into those hours.
With no gas appliances left, there is no reason to keep paying for a gas connection you no longer use.
We inspect the house once and send a written plan with a fixed price for each stage and the incentives that apply. No obligation.
