In town, ducted gas heaters replaced with ducted reverse cycle on new R1.5 insulated ducts. On the acreage, multi-head and split systems in place of LPG and wood. Installed and looked after by the crew based in Speedwell Street.
Ask ten Somerville households how they heat and you will hear two stories. Inside the township, the brick veneer homes built from the 1980s to the 2000s are on mains gas, and most have a ducted gas heater in the roof with a cooler of some kind added later. Past the last street, on the acreage, orchards and horse properties, mains gas often does not reach. Those houses run on a wood heater, LPG bottles or a couple of old wall units, and many have never had a duct in them.
We treat them as separate jobs. The township house keeps its ducted layout but changes everything that feeds it: gas heater and old ducts out, ducted reverse cycle and new R1.5 insulated ducts in, heating and cooling from one machine. The rural house gets a multi-head or split systems in the rooms people live in, which avoids building a duct system through a roof that was never designed for one and ends the run to the bottle yard.
Being the local company changes the after-sales side as well. When a filter light comes on or someone wants a zone renamed, the technician is coming from Speedwell Street. It is one reason we would sooner size and install a system carefully the first time. The rest of what we do around town is on the Somerville page.
Braemar, Mitsubishi Electric and Hisense, with AirTouch 5 zoning on ducted systems.
Replaces the ducted gas heater in the roof of a Somerville brick veneer. The old ductwork is taken out with it, and new R1.5 insulated ducts sized to the reverse cycle unit are run to each room, with AirTouch 5 zoning so bedrooms and living areas are controlled separately.
One outdoor unit, several indoor heads. A good fit for a farmhouse or older weatherboard with no ducts, where the kitchen, lounge and two or three bedrooms each get their own wall unit and their own temperature.
A home office in the shed, a studio, a granny flat or the one room the main system never reached. A wall-mounted split is installed in a few hours and needs only a dedicated circuit, which we run.
The newer homes on the edges of Somerville usually have modern boards and tidy roof spaces. Where a gas heater is being replaced, new R1.5 ducts are still our default. Where the home is already all-electric, we add or extend reverse cycle to the rooms that need it.
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.
No Somerville heating job is written up yet, so here are two from further down the Peninsula and one ducted swap from Cairnlea.
Down the road in Mount Martha, heating, hot water and cooking all run on electricity now and the gas line is gone. 15.2kW of solar and 24.18kWh of Sigenergy storage carry the load, and the house has barely touched peak power since.
A double-storey Blairgowrie house on gas heating, gas hot water and gas cooking. We rewired it to three-phase and cut the gas out completely, with split systems for heating and cooling, heat pump hot water, induction cooking, 17.1kW of solar and 32kWh of Sigenergy battery.
The township-style job, done in Cairnlea. Gas ducted system decommissioned, an 18kW Mitsubishi Electric ducted unit installed, and seven AirTouch 5 zones set up across ten vents. The owner called it efficient and quiet. The job carried a $6,300 rebate.
Timing on site: typically one to two days for ducted on new R1.5 ducts, a few hours for each split system.
Usually the same day or the next. Fuel type, existing ducts if any, roof space, switchboard and supply.
We recommend one and explain why. Capacity is worked out from the rooms, not from the old heater.
A fixed price listing the unit, ducts or heads, zoning and electrical work, with the discount already deducted.
Refrigeration, ductwork and wiring all by Powerband employees. Old heater and ducts are taken away.
Both modes tested, zones named the way you want them, the app set up, and a local number for anything later.
It depends which fuel you are leaving behind.
Reverse cycle heating runs at around a third of the running cost of gas heating. Once hot water and the cooktop follow, the gas account and its daily supply charge can be closed.
No more bottle deliveries, and no more cutting, stacking and carting. A reverse cycle system also cools, which a wood heater never did.
Somerville is inside the VEU area. The discount on efficient reverse cycle is largest where gas heating is replaced, and we apply it on the quote. Add panels and the heating runs largely on your own power: see solar and battery in Somerville.
We are at U44/10 Speedwell Street. A bad job in Somerville would follow us to the supermarket.
Quotes, installs and any later call-outs all come from the same depot in town.
A farmhouse with no ducts gets a multi-head. A township home with ducted gas gets ducted reverse cycle. The house decides.
Old gas ducts are replaced, not reused, so the system cools properly as well as heats.
ARC authorisation AU 065299, BPC 132072 and REC 32300. Refrigeration, mechanical and electrical work done by our own technicians and A-Grade electricians.
Live Google reviews. Look for the ducted reverse cycle and AirTouch jobs.
Anything else, call 0466 355 441. You will get a technician, not a salesperson.
Reverse cycle. In a house without ducts, a multi-head or two or three split systems cover the rooms you use and cost far less to run than bottled gas.
Yes. Plenty of rural owners keep the fire for the coldest nights and use reverse cycle for everyday heating and for summer. Nothing about the install requires removing it.
The gas heater and old ducts are removed and a ducted reverse cycle unit is installed on new R1.5 insulated ducts, with a dedicated circuit from the switchboard. It is typically one to two days.
Yes, provided there is power to the building or we can run it. A split is a few hours to install once the circuit is in.
Yes. We are based in Somerville, so servicing and any adjustments are done by the same company from the same depot.
Yes, Somerville is inside the Victorian Energy Upgrades area. The amount depends on the property and what is being replaced, and we confirm it in the quote.
We call in, see what the house runs on, and send a written quote with the system, zoning and after-VEU price. No obligation.
