Split and multi-head systems for beach houses, ducted reverse cycle for larger homes, all with corrosion-protected outdoor units and control from your phone. Switch it on from the freeway and walk into a comfortable house. ARC-licensed technicians.
Heating a Safety Beach home is often less about the coldest night of the year and more about the hour after you pull into the driveway. A lot of the houses here are weekenders. They sit closed up from Sunday to Friday, and in winter that means walking into a cold, slightly damp house and waiting for an old wall heater or a tired split to catch up. In January it is the opposite problem, with a house that has been baking shut for five days.
The older beach houses are low, single storey and built for summer, with thin walls, little roof space and no ducts. Reverse cycle split systems suit them well: one in the living area and one for the bedrooms, or a multi-head off a single outdoor unit, each controllable over Wi-Fi. The modern homes around Martha Cove are bigger and usually better insulated, and they suit zoned ducted reverse cycle, with upstairs and downstairs run separately.
Both come with the same local condition. Safety Beach is flat, open to the bay and close to the water on every street, so an outdoor unit here gets more salt than almost anywhere else we work. We specify for it and place the unit carefully. See what else we do in Safety Beach.
Mitsubishi Electric, Hisense and Braemar units, installed and wired by our own crew.
Mitsubishi Electric and Hisense wall units, each installed in a few hours. Turn the heating on from the car, check that nothing was left running after you locked up, and replace the old window rattler or gas wall heater with something that heats and cools.
One outdoor unit running three or four indoor units. For Safety Beach that means a single unit exposed to the salt air, placed on the most sheltered side, and a tidy outside wall on a small block.
For family-sized and two-storey homes. If a gas ducted heater is being replaced, new R1.5 insulated ducts sized to the reverse cycle unit are the default. AirTouch 5 zones let you run only the level or wing in use, which suits a house with spare bedrooms.
Outdoor coils with an anti-corrosive coating, such as Hisense Golden Fin on ducted units, mounted out of the direct line of the wind from the bay where the site allows. We tell you plainly where the unit will last longest.
The full range is on our products page.
Ducted reverse cycle, including the Dominator for homes where the existing ducts have to stay.
Ducted units for tight roof spaces, plus split and multi-head systems.
Ducted and split systems, with anti-corrosive Golden Fin coils on the ducted range.
Zoning control for ducted systems, with a sensor in each zone and control from your phone.
We have not written up a heating job in Safety Beach yet. These three are the closest in type and location.
Further down the Peninsula in Blairgowrie, a double-storey home on gas heating, gas hot water and gas cooking was rewired to three phase and fully electrified, with split systems doing the heating and cooling.
Next door in Mount Martha, heating, hot water and cooking all run on electricity and the gas line is gone. 15.2kW of solar and 24.18kWh of storage cover it, and the monthly bill went from $302 to $148.
In Surrey Hills two split system air conditioners were replaced and a condensation pump added, in the same job as 12.35kW of solar, a 24.18kWh Sigenergy battery and an iStore heat pump hot water unit.
A split system is a few hours. Ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 ducts is typically one to two days.
We look at the rooms, the construction, any roof space, the existing heater and the switchboard, and ask how the house is used through the year.
On this coast, where the unit sits matters as much as which unit it is. We find the sheltered spots before choosing the system.
Units, capacities, controls and electrical work, with the VEU discount shown where the job is eligible.
If you are back in town, we work from a key or lockbox and send photos. Each split gets its own dedicated circuit.
The app is connected to your phone, a setback temperature is set for when the house is empty, and we show you how to pre-heat or pre-cool.
A part-time home has a different sum to a full-time one.
A gas supply charge is billed every day, including the days nobody is there. Once heating, hot water and cooking are electric, that account can be closed.
A weekender exports most of its solar midweek. Pre-heating or pre-cooling on Friday afternoon uses that power in the house. See solar and battery in Safety Beach.
Safety Beach is inside the VEU area. Efficient reverse cycle systems attract a discount, largest when gas heating is being replaced. Eligibility depends on the property and the existing heater, and we check it for you.
We are based in Somerville, about 20 minutes from Safety Beach, and work along this coast every week.
Corrosion-protected coils and sheltered placement are in every Safety Beach quote from the start.
Wi-Fi control only helps if it is connected and you know how to use it. We do that at handover, in person or over the phone.
ARC authorisation AU 065299, BPC 132072, REC 32300. The technician and the A-Grade electrician both work for Powerband.
If a unit throws a fault while you are in Melbourne, we are a short drive from the house and can go and look.
Live Google reviews. Look for the ducted reverse cycle and AirTouch jobs.
Anything else, call 0466 355 441 and speak with a technician.
Yes. Split systems with Wi-Fi control and ducted systems on AirTouch 5 can both be switched on from your phone. Most owners start it as they leave home, and the house is comfortable when they arrive.
It is a low holding temperature the system keeps while the house is empty. In a closed-up coastal house it takes the edge off the damp over winter for very little energy. We set it up at handover if you want it.
Commonly one for the living area and one or two for the bedrooms. A multi-head does the same from a single outdoor unit. We measure the rooms and recommend the smallest setup that does the job.
On the side of the house away from the prevailing wind off the bay, off the ground, with clear airflow. We choose the position at the site visit and fit a unit with a corrosion-protected coil.
Yes. A reverse cycle split in the same room heats it for around a third of the running cost of gas heating and adds cooling. We check what the house runs on and what else is still using gas.
Yes. Larger two-storey homes suit zoned ducted reverse cycle. If the home has ducted gas now, ducts we can reach are replaced with new R1.5 insulated ducts, and where they cannot be replaced a Braemar Dominator uses the existing ducts.
A site visit on a day you are at the house, then a written quote with the units, controls, outdoor unit positions and price. No obligation.
