Seaford roofs are tin on one house and tile on the next, the switchboards are old and the foreshore is never far away. We design for all three, with Jinko panels and GoodWe or Sigenergy storage fitted by our own A-Grade electricians.
Seaford was built in a hurry after the war and filled in slowly ever since. Between the Nepean Highway and the wetlands you will find a 1950s weatherboard with a low tin roof beside a 1970s brick veneer under tiles, and behind both of them a pair of units where the back yard used to be. No two neighbouring roofs are the same, so we do not arrive with a standard layout. The design starts with what your roof is made of, how it is pitched and how much of it is yours.
Two things come up on nearly every Seaford site visit. The first is the switchboard. A house of this age usually still has its original board, and it has to be brought up to standard before an inverter and a battery are connected to it. One of our two written-up Seaford installs needed exactly that. The second is the bay. The streets along Kananook Creek and the foreshore get salt on everything outdoors, so mounting, isolators and enclosures are chosen for it.
The third question is where the battery lives. Plenty of homes here have a carport or nothing at all in place of a garage. On one Seaford job we put the battery on the north wall of the house and built the cement sheeting, shade awning and concrete pads it needed. That kind of detail is priced into the quote, along with the other work we do in Seaford.
Four parts of the job, in the order they tend to cause trouble when someone skips them.
We open the board at the site visit. Ceramic fuses, no safety switches and no spare space are all common in a postwar Seaford house. Where the board has to be replaced we do it as part of the same install and leave room for the circuits that follow, such as hot water, a cooktop or a car charger.
Jinko Tiger Neo and Aiko panels on the fixing that suits the roof. Tin gets brackets screwed through to the battens, tile gets brackets set under lifted tiles. Our two Seaford write-ups cover one of each: 29 panels on a tin roof and 23 on tile.
GoodWe, Sigenergy, Tesla Powerwall and Sungrow. A garage beside the switchboard is the simple case. Without one, the battery goes on an outside wall with non-combustible backing, a pad to sit on and shade over the top, kept as far out of the weather as the site allows.
A unit has a smaller roof and sometimes an owners corporation with a say over it. We check the plan of subdivision and any rules before we draw a layout, fit the largest array your own roof takes and size the battery to match it.
The full range is on our products page.
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.
The first two are in Seaford. The third is in Frankston, the next suburb south. Each has its own page with the full specification.
A tile roof, a single-phase GoodWe inverter and three GoodWe battery modules in the garage. The switchboard was upgraded in the same job, and the owners' bill went from $185 a month to $35.
29 Jinko panels on a single-storey tin roof and 24.96kWh of GoodWe storage on the north wall, with cement sheeting, a shade awning and concrete pads built for the battery.
Next door in Frankston, 32 Jinko panels across a tile roof with a Sigenergy hybrid inverter. The three SigenStor modules sit directly behind the switchboard so the cable runs stay short.
The order we look at things on site is the order that decides the price.
Age, condition, spare capacity and the incoming supply. If it needs replacing you hear it on the day, not after you have signed.
Tin or tile, pitch, the state of the sheets or tiles, shade from neighbours and how close the house is to the water.
Garage, carport or an outside wall. We tell you what backing, pad or cover that spot needs and include it.
One after-discount price covering panels, inverter, battery and any board work. We lodge the rebate and network applications.
Both Seaford systems on this page went in with our own crew, one of them start to finish in a single day. You get the app, a backup test and the Certificate of Electrical Safety.
One of our Seaford installs used the Solar Victoria rebate and the other did not. The federal discounts applied to both.
Cheaper Home Batteries takes around 30 percent off an approved battery. There is no income test, so it applies whether or not you qualify for anything from the state.
For eligible owner-occupiers, on solar panels and the inverter only. It depends on household income, property value and whether the address has claimed before. There is no Solar Victoria battery rebate or battery loan any more: both closed in 2025.
Small-scale technology certificates come off the panel price at the point of sale. If you are also replacing a gas wall furnace or an old split, the discount for that is separate and sits on our Seaford heating and cooling page.
Old boards, tin roofs and no garage are not surprises to us. They are the last two Seaford jobs we wrote up.
Two published Seaford case studies, one on tile and one on tin, with the specification and the owners' reviews.
Our own A-Grade electricians do the switchboard, the roof and the battery. Nothing is handed to a subcontractor.
SAA accredited through Solar Accreditation Australia and a New Energy Tech Approved Seller.
The depot is at U44/10 Speedwell St, Somerville. A site visit or a call-back is a short drive up the Peninsula.
Live Google reviews. Look for the Sigenergy, GoodWe and Powerwall jobs.
Anything else, call 0466 355 441. An electrician will answer the question.
Yes, once the board is replaced. An inverter and battery need a board with safety switches and space for the new breakers. We check it at the site visit and put the upgrade in the same fixed price, as we did on one of the Seaford jobs above.
On an outside wall, as near the switchboard as the rules allow. We fit non-combustible backing, a pad and shade where the spot needs them. One Seaford system on this page has its battery on the north wall of the house for that reason.
No. Tin is usually quicker, because the brackets fix straight through the sheet to the timber underneath. We check the condition of the sheets and the fixings first, and close to the bay we use salt-rated mounting.
Often, yes. It depends on whether the roof over your unit is yours or common property, and on any owners corporation rules. Bring the plan of subdivision or strata details to the site visit and we will work through it.
Nowhere in Seaford is too close for solar. Within a few streets of the foreshore we specify salt-rated mounting and outdoor gear and keep the battery under cover. Further back towards the wetlands it is a standard install.
Both chose 24.96kWh of GoodWe storage. One paired it with 10.925kW of panels on tile, the other with 13.775kW on tin. The first household's bill dropped from $185 a month to $35.
We look at the board, the roof and the battery position, then send one written price with the layout and brands. No obligation.
