Reverse cycle heating and cooling, heat pump hot water, induction, solar, a battery and EV charging, planned once at the first inspection and installed by our own electricians, plumbers and refrigeration technicians.
Electrifying a Safety Beach home starts with finding out what it runs on, because the answer changes street to street. Some homes are on mains gas, some use LPG, and some were electric from the start. An older beach house might have a gas wall heater and a storage hot water tank; a larger, newer home around Martha Cove might have ducted heating through two storeys. Each takes a different route to the same place: no gas appliances left and a roof doing most of the work.
The heating sets the shape of the plan. Beach houses and open-plan living areas often suit split or multi-head reverse cycle systems, a few hours per unit. A ducted gas home goes to ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts, typically one to two days, and in a double-storey home where the ducts genuinely cannot be replaced, a Braemar Dominator keeps them. Reverse cycle heats for around a third of the running cost of gas heating, and it cools in summer too.
Then the rest: heat pump hot water, an induction cooktop, and solar with a battery sized to the electric house, which on the Peninsula also means backup for outages. Some owners do it all at once, others stage it, and holiday homes often time the work for the quiet months. It all sits alongside the rest of our Safety Beach work.
Home electrification Safety Beach owners take on is usually some combination of these four, with the switchboard checked first.
Mitsubishi Electric and Hisense splits or multi-head for beach houses and open living areas, or Braemar, Mitsubishi Electric or Hisense ducted on new R1.5 ducts for larger homes, with AirTouch 5 zoning to split upstairs from downstairs. Outdoor units placed out of the salt wind where possible.
The gas, LPG or electric tank goes and an Emerald, Reclaim, iStore or Haier heat pump goes in, normally in one day with plumber and electrician together. About a quarter of the energy of a gas storage unit.
Usually the last gas appliance in the house. An induction cooktop on its own circuit, at a fixed price with no rebate, and then there is no reason to keep paying for a gas connection you no longer use.
Solar sized for the new electric load, and a battery that carries the evening heating and cooking and keeps chosen circuits running when the power drops. An EV charger can join the same board.
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.
We have not written up a full Safety Beach electrification yet. The closest is next door in Mount Martha; the others are in Blairgowrie and Doreen.
Next door in Mount Martha, heating, hot water and cooking all went electric and the gas line was removed. 32 Jinko panels, a 10kW Sigen hybrid inverter, 24.18kWh of SigenStor with backup and a new switchboard, installed in one day. The monthly bill went from $302 to $148.
A double-storey home on a single-phase board was rewired to three phase. Gas heating, hot water and cooking were replaced with Mitsubishi Electric splits, a heat pump and induction, with 17.1kW of solar, 32kWh of Sigenergy and a 22kW EV charger.
Gas ducted heating, gas hot water and a gas cooktop replaced in one job: 23.5kW ducted reverse cycle with 12 vents in seven AirTouch 5 zones, a Reclaim CO2 heat pump and induction.
Whether it happens in one visit or over a few years, the order is worked out at the start.
Heating, hot water, cooktop, fuel type, switchboard, supply and roof, all looked at on one visit.
Upgraded once if needed, with room for every circuit in the plan, labelled so you know what is what.
Usually the largest gas or LPG loads, so usually first. Splits in a few hours, ducted in one to two days, hot water in one.
Sized for the electric house, with backup circuits chosen with you.
Induction and an EV charger finish it off. No gas appliances left.
Every item has its own rules. We apply each discount on the quote and lodge the paperwork.
Victorian Energy Upgrades discounts apply to reverse cycle heating and cooling and to heat pump hot water, which also carries STCs. Our Safety Beach heating and cooling page goes into the heating side.
Batteries get the federal Cheaper Home Batteries discount, around 30 percent with no income test. There is no Solar Victoria battery rebate or loan. Induction cooktops and EV chargers have no rebate and are a fixed price.
Eligible owner-occupiers can use the Solar Victoria rebate and interest-free loan on solar panels and inverters, and STCs come off the panel price. Holiday homes may not qualify, so we check.
Going all-electric touches the switchboard, the plumbing, the refrigeration and the roof. Our own staff do all of it.
Over 5,000 Melbourne homes have started their electrification with us, backed by 20+ years in the trade.
REC 32300 electrical, BPC 132072 plumbing, ARC licensed AU 065299 refrigeration, SAA accredited for solar and battery.
Outdoor units and heat pumps sited out of the salt wind where possible, and backup designed in for Peninsula outages.
Do one item this year and the next one later. The plan, and the switchboard, are ready for each step.
Live Google reviews. Look for the whole-home and off-gas jobs.
Anything else, call 0466 355 441. You will speak to someone who does the work.
Usually the heating or the hot water, whichever is older or costs most to run. The switchboard is checked first so it can take everything that follows.
The swaps are the same: reverse cycle for heating, a heat pump for hot water and induction for cooking. Once the last LPG appliance goes, so do the bottles.
Most beach houses and open-plan living areas suit splits or a multi-head, installed in a few hours per unit. Larger ducted gas homes go to ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 ducts.
Our default is new R1.5 insulated ducts. Where ducts between floors genuinely cannot be replaced, a Braemar Dominator works with the existing ones.
Yes. For holiday homes we can plan the stages around when you are away and walk you through the controls on your next visit.
It carries the electric heating and cooking into the evening and can keep chosen circuits running during an outage, which matters on the Peninsula.
One inspection, one written plan with every item priced and every incentive applied. Start with one step or do the lot.
