Reverse cycle heating, heat pump hot water, induction, solar, a battery and an EV charger, staged in the right order from the first inspection. Electricians, plumbers and ARC licensed technicians all on our own payroll.
Dandenong homes come off gas in a slightly different way from the newer suburbs around them. Many of the weatherboards and brick veneers still heat with a gas wall furnace in the lounge or hallway, others have ducted gas in the roof, and most have a gas storage tank outside and a gas cooktop in the kitchen. Home electrification Dandenong style starts by listing those appliances and how old each one is.
Then comes the switchboard. Swapping four gas appliances for electric ones adds heating, hot water and cooking circuits, and possibly a charger, to a board that may be the original. We check the board and the supply at the first visit and plan any upgrade once, so it is not done twice as the house changes.
From there it is a sequence, not a single big job. Most Dandenong owners start with whichever gas appliance is closest to failing, usually the heater or the hot water, and add the rest as it suits them. We write the whole plan at the first inspection, and it sits with the rest of our Dandenong work.
Six changes, each priced separately so you can stage them, all designed together so they work as one house.
A wall furnace usually becomes a split system or a multi-head setup from Mitsubishi Electric, Hisense or Braemar, and a split goes in within a few hours. Ducted gas becomes ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts, typically one to two days. Reverse cycle heats for around a third of the running cost of gas heating, and it cools too.
The tank on the side wall becomes an Emerald, Reclaim, iStore or Haier heat pump using about a quarter of the energy. Our plumber and electrician do the swap together, normally in one day.
Usually the last gas appliance. The induction cooktop goes on its own dedicated circuit, which we plan into the switchboard from the start. It is a straight fixed price with no rebate attached.
Once the house runs on electricity, solar and a battery carry more of the load. We size them for the electric house you are heading towards, and add an EV charger on its own circuit if a car is coming.
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.
Our written-up electrification jobs are not in Dandenong yet. These three are the closest match to Dandenong houses.
The gas wall furnace in the hallway was decommissioned and replaced with reverse cycle, each outdoor unit on its own circuit. An Emerald heat pump, 29 Jinko panels on tile and a SigenStor battery followed.
The gas cooktop was replaced with induction on its own circuit, with 13.3kW of Jinko solar on tile and a GoodWe battery on the southern wall beside the switchboard.
A double-storey home on a single-phase board was rewired to three-phase, then gas heating, hot water and cooking all removed: Mitsubishi Electric splits, heat pump hot water and induction.
The plan does not commit you to doing everything. It makes sure each step suits the next one.
Heater, hot water, cooktop: what each one is, how old, and which is closest to the end of its life.
We check the board and the phase, and plan any upgrade once for every circuit that will follow.
Usually heating or hot water first, then solar and a battery sized to the new load, then the cooktop.
Do one step this year and the next later, or all at once. Every stage is quoted with its incentives taken off.
When nothing on the property uses gas, you can stop paying for a gas connection you no longer use.
There is no single electrification rebate. These are the ones that apply, item by item.
Victorian Energy Upgrades discounts apply to reverse cycle heating and cooling and to heat pump hot water, and they are largest when gas is being replaced. Taken off on the quote.
Solar Victoria rebate and interest-free loan for eligible owner-occupiers, on solar panels and inverters only. STCs on panels and heat pumps. Batteries get the federal Cheaper Home Batteries discount, around 30 percent, with no income test.
No rebate on either, so they are a plain fixed price. For heating options in detail, see heating and cooling in Dandenong.
Electrification touches the switchboard, the plumbing and the refrigeration. Most companies subcontract at least one of those. We do not.
The whole Dandenong house is mapped once, so the board, the solar and the heating are sized together.
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More than 5,000 Melbourne homes started on electrification and over 10,000 products installed.
Start with what is failing, add the rest when it suits. The plan stays on file so the next stage picks up where the last finished.
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Usually a reverse cycle split system in the same room, or a multi-head system if you want several rooms heated. A split goes in within a few hours and also gives you cooling.
No. Most people stage it. We plan the full order at the first inspection so the first step does not have to be redone when the next one comes.
Usually with whichever gas appliance is oldest. The heater and the hot water carry the biggest running costs and both attract VEU discounts, so they tend to go first.
Often, if it is the original. Adding heating, hot water, cooking and possibly a charger needs space and modern protection. We check at the first visit and plan the upgrade once.
It depends on which appliances you have and in what order you replace them. Every stage gets its own fixed price, with the incentives already taken off, after a free inspection.
Yes, the same swaps apply. Units often suit split systems and compact heat pumps. Anything on common property needs the owners corporation to agree first.
One free inspection, one written plan, and a fixed price for each stage with the incentives already applied.
