Heating + Cooling in Canterbury

Canterbury runs near 2600 people per square kilometre. On blocks that size the question is usually zoning and capacity rather than where anything physically fits. Canterbury is roughly 70 metres above sea level, which puts it in the milder band. Cooling hours carry more weight in the sizing than they do up in the ranges.

Canterbury is about 10 kilometres from the CBD, which in Melbourne usually means an older, smaller-footprint house that has been extended at least once. Those extensions are where heating and cooling coverage typically falls apart. Canterbury falls under Boroondara. That matters less for the install itself than for where the unit can legally sit, and it is worth settling before anyone orders equipment.

We work across Balwyn, Camberwell and Hawthorn East on the same trip, and Canterbury sits in the middle of that loop. Canterbury covers about 3 square kilometres of Boroondara. The 2021 census put the population at 7800, and the postcode is 3126.

For what it is worth on the day, == History == The railway station is in many ways responsible for the suburb's existence: before the opening of the railway to the City in 1882, the area was a semi-rural area. Knowing roughly when the housing went up is how we judge whether the board will take another circuit. Canterbury sits within a group of suburbs we are in constantly: Balwyn, Camberwell, Hawthorn East and Kew East.

We are based in Boronia, about 18.7 kilometres west of Canterbury. Close enough that the person who quotes the job is the person who comes back to do it. There is more to the local history than that: The first subdivision in the area came in 1885, when Michael Logan created the 'Claremont Park Estate' within the area of Canterbury Road, Bryson Street, Prospect Hill Road and Logan Street.

Adding to that: In 1900 Snowden's estate was subdivided and sold off to form what is now Monomeath Avenue and residents such as notable architect Percey Kernot and prominent citizen George Coghill moved in.