Estate homes with modern switchboards, double garages and roofs cut into several faces. We map the roof, put the battery in the garage and size the system for a family that is home in the evening. Our own A-Grade electricians, about 20 minutes away in Somerville.
Cranbourne East hardly existed as a residential suburb before about 2008. Hunt Club and Mayfield are the best known estates, more have gone in around Casey Fields, and building has not really stopped since. The result is a suburb where nearly every family home is under twenty years old: brick, a tiled or Colorbond roof, a double garage, a switchboard with room in it and, in a large share of streets, a second storey.
That makes the electrical side easy and the roof side interesting. Hardly anyone needs a new switchboard. But a two-storey house on a compact block has a small roof broken into four or five faces, and getting a worthwhile array onto it takes real design. Our written-up Cranbourne East system shows what a good roof here can do: 27 Jinko Tiger Neo Satin panels, 11.88kW, on a tile roof, with a single-phase Sigenergy hybrid inverter and three SigenStor battery modules behind bollards in the garage.
Three weeks after it was switched on, the owner had drawn 3 to 4kWh from the grid in total. The rest came from the roof and the battery. That is what a correctly sized system does in a home where the load arrives late in the afternoon and runs into the night. We design every quote with that aim, and it sits with the rest of what we do in Cranbourne East.
The equipment is the same across the suburb. The roof design is not.
On a double-storey home we place Jinko or Aiko panels on each face that earns its place, and wire the faces so one in shade does not hold back the others. Upper roofs need edge protection and the right access gear, which is in the price, not an extra.
A single-storey home here has more usable roof than a two-storey one on the same size block, and usually takes a full array in long, tidy rows. Tile or Colorbond, the panels are fixed to the roof structure with mounting made for that roof type.
Three SigenStor modules, 24.18kWh, is what we fitted locally, inside the garage with bollards in front. Garages here are usually close to the meter box, so cable runs are short. GoodWe, Tesla Powerwall and Sungrow batteries are fitted the same way.
EVs are turning up in more Cranbourne East garages each year. We leave capacity for a Tesla Wall Connector, Sigenergy or GoodWe charger and can fit it in the same visit, set to charge from surplus solar.
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Tier-one panels with 25-year performance warranties, laid out for the roof faces you have.
Hybrid and string inverters, chosen so a battery can join the system now or later.
Home batteries sized to the evening peak, with backup circuits set up for outages.
Home chargers wired into the same system and set to charge from your solar first.
Clyde North and Clyde sit beside Cranbourne East and share its housing style.
27 Jinko Tiger Neo Satin panels on a tile roof, a single-phase Sigenergy hybrid inverter and three battery modules in the garage. Three weeks in, the owner had used only 3 to 4kWh of grid power.
A three-phase home next door in Clyde North, with 25 panels, a Sigenergy system with 36.16kWh of storage and a 22kW three-phase EV charger. The quote was reworked several times until the configuration was right.
Fitted to a new home in Clyde before the owner had finished moving in: 18 Jinko Tiger Neo III panels on a tile roof, a single-phase GoodWe inverter and two GoodWe battery modules behind bollards in the garage.
Two-storey homes add a step for access. Otherwise the sequence is the same for every house.
Every face measured for size, pitch and direction, with shade from the upper storey and the neighbours noted.
We look at when the house uses power. In a commuter suburb most of it falls after 5pm, and that sets the battery size.
Panel layout by roof face, inverter, battery, optional EV charger and the price after every rebate you qualify for.
Edge protection goes up where there is a second storey. Then panels, inverter and garage battery, fitted by our own electricians.
We commission the system, test the backup if you have chosen it, and set up the app so you can watch grid use fall.
On our Cranbourne East job the office handled the Solar Victoria paperwork with very little needed from the owner.
A federal incentive that applies to the panels on every eligible system and is deducted at the point of sale.
Available to eligible owner-occupiers for solar panels and inverters only. Eligibility depends on the household and the property, so we check your address first. There is no Solar Victoria battery rebate or battery loan. Those closed in 2025.
Cheaper Home Batteries, around 30 percent off an approved battery with no income test. On a garage battery of the size we fit here, it is a large part of the total deduction.
Our Cranbourne East case study reports what the system did after switch-on, not just what was installed.
The target is a house that barely draws from the grid after dark. Our local job used 3 to 4kWh of grid power in its first three weeks.
Multi-face layouts and height access are routine for our crews across the Casey estates.
Solar Accreditation Australia accredited and a New Energy Tech Approved Seller, with the install done by our own A-Grade electricians.
Ducted gas is still the heating in most of Cranbourne East. We can size the system for the day it is replaced with reverse cycle heating and cooling.
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Other questions go to 0466 355 441, answered by an electrician.
Usually, yes. The roof is smaller and split into more faces, so the layout takes more care and panels may go on three or four of them. We tell you the realistic output before you commit.
Enough to cover from late afternoon to the next morning. Our Cranbourne East job has 24.18kWh for that. A smaller household may need less, and a home with an EV or electric heating may need more.
Unlikely. Homes built since 2008 have modern boards with safety switches and, usually, spare space. We still check the board and the main supply at the site visit.
We can add a battery to it, extend it, or replace it with a larger array if it is taking up the best roof face. Which is better depends on its size and inverter, and we price the options.
Our local job runs on single-phase, and so do many homes here. Some have three-phase, which allows a larger inverter and faster EV charging. We confirm yours at the visit.
From the day it is commissioned. On our Cranbourne East job the house was running almost entirely on its own solar within the first three weeks.
We survey the roof and your evening use, then send the layout, battery size and after-rebate price in writing. No obligation.
