Reverse cycle heating and cooling, heat pump hot water, induction, solar, a battery and an EV charger, planned from the first inspection and done in the order that suits you. Every trade is our own, from the switchboard to the last gas appliance going.
A typical original Glen Waverley home runs three things on gas: a ducted heater in the roof, a storage hot water tank on the side wall, and a cooktop in the kitchen. The rebuilds next door usually carry gas ducted heating with separate splits for cooling. Either way, the house is paying a gas supply charge every day for appliances that each have an electric replacement which costs less to run.
Home electrification is replacing those appliances in a sensible order, with the electrical side ready for all of them. On an original single-storey home the walk-through roof space makes ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts straightforward. A heat pump takes over the hot water, induction replaces the cooktop, and the long single hip roof carries enough solar to run much of it in the daytime. On a two-storey rebuild, the ground floor ducts can sit in the floor void between levels, and that is where a Braemar Dominator on the existing ducts is sometimes the honest answer.
We start every plan at the switchboard, because an original board from the 1970s often cannot carry the new loads. We service Glen Waverley from Somerville, about 50 minutes away, and the plan sits alongside the rest of our Glen Waverley work.
Home electrification Glen Waverley owners ask about usually comes down to these four steps, in whichever order the house needs.
Braemar, Mitsubishi Electric or Hisense ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts, typically one to two days. It heats for around a third of the running cost of gas heating and cools the bedrooms too. AirTouch 5 zoning keeps the empty rooms closed off.
An Emerald, Reclaim, iStore or Haier heat pump in the old tank spot, normally a one-day swap with our plumber and electrician together. About a quarter of the energy of a gas storage unit.
A new induction cooktop on its own circuit from the board. Often the last gas appliance to go, and once it does there are no gas appliances left and no reason to keep paying for the connection.
Panels on the roof to run the new loads during the day, a battery for winter evenings when the heating works hardest, and an EV charger if a car is part of the plan. All sized together, not one at a time.
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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.
None of these are in Glen Waverley. They are the closest match to the jobs we plan here, and each case study says where it was.
Gas ducted heating, gas hot water and a gas cooktop, the same trio found in an original Glen Waverley home, replaced by one team in one job. The zoning was planned room by room on the floor plan.
A double-storey home that started on a single-phase board and was rewired to three-phase. Gas heating, hot water and cooking were all removed, replaced by split systems, heat pump hot water and induction, with a large array, a battery and a fast charger.
Heating, hot water and cooking all went electric and the gas line was removed. A 15.2kW array and 24.18kWh of SigenStor storage run it, and on this job the monthly bill fell from $302 to $148.
Do it all at once or spread it over a few years. Either way the plan is set from the first visit.
Heater, ducts, hot water, cooktop, roof, switchboard and supply phase, all looked at in one visit.
What to change first, what can wait for the old appliance to fail, and what is worth doing together.
Each step priced separately with its own incentives applied, so you can go at your own pace.
If the board needs upgrading it goes in before the first new appliance, with room for every circuit to come.
Electricians, plumbers and ARC licensed technicians, all Powerband staff, stage by stage.
There is no single electrification rebate. Here is what applies to each part, and we take it off each quote.
Victorian Energy Upgrades covers reverse cycle heating and cooling and heat pump hot water only, largest when they replace gas. More on the heating side at heating and cooling in Glen Waverley.
STCs on solar panels and heat pump hot water. The Solar Victoria rebate and interest-free loan cover panels and inverters for eligible owner-occupiers, and some Glen Waverley homes will not pass the income or property tests. Batteries get the federal Cheaper Home Batteries discount, around 30 percent, no income test.
No rebate on either. They are a fixed price on the quote.
Electrification touches the roof, the plumbing, the refrigeration and the switchboard. We employ all of it.
A-Grade electricians (REC 32300), plumbers (BPC 132072) and ARC licensed technicians (AU 065299). Nothing subcontracted.
The heating, hot water, solar and board are designed together, so nothing has to be redone at stage three.
More than 5,000 Melbourne homes started on electrification and over 20 years in the trade.
If your rebuild's gas ducted heater has years left in it, we will plan around it rather than rip it out.
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Usually with whichever gas appliance is oldest, and with the switchboard. In many original homes that is the hot water tank, which is a one-day swap.
No. Home electrification Glen Waverley owners do in stages works just as well, as long as the plan, the board and the solar size are set at the start.
Upstairs can usually take new R1.5 ducts in the roof. Where the ground floor ducts cannot be reached, a Braemar Dominator keeps them in use. We decide after looking.
Often yes, with a modern board and sensible sizing. Some larger homes are better on three-phase, which we discuss at the inspection.
Once the last gas appliance goes, there is no reason to keep paying a daily supply charge for a gas connection you no longer use.
Not necessarily, but it helps to size it for the new loads, so we plan it at the start even if it goes on later.
One visit to look at every gas appliance, the roof and the switchboard. Then a written plan with fixed prices for each stage.
