At about 2538 people per square kilometre, Glen Waverley gives you the choice most inner suburbs do not: ducted through the roof, or a multi-split, without contorting the design around the block. Glen Waverley sits about 19 kilometres out in Monash. Houses here are generally large enough that a single-head split will not do the whole job honestly.
Being part of Monash, Glen Waverley is subject to that council's rules on external plant. Most jobs are unaffected, but the ones that are affected are better found at quoting stage than at installation. Being next to Burwood East and Mount Waverley means Glen Waverley is almost never a standalone trip for our crew.
Glen Waverley is postcode 3150, roughly 16.8 square kilometres of Monash, and held 42642 residents at the 2021 census. It is worth knowing how the suburb was built: In 2011, IKON Glen Waverley was constructed as a 10-storey apartment, office, retail and car parking complex between the railway station and Kingsway. That development pattern is a fair guide to the age of the wiring we will find behind the wall.
Coverage around Glen Waverley extends through Burwood East, Mount Waverley, Mulgrave and Notting Hill without any change in how a job is quoted. Glen Waverley is around 19 kilometres out and is standard territory for us.
The suburb has Glen Waverley railway station, and in Melbourne a station is usually the oldest point of a suburb with newer housing spreading out from it. And on the history that shaped the streets: The Post Office opened on 1 July 1885 as Black Flat in the area to the south of the railway line, was renamed 'Glen Waverley' in 1921, and Glen Waverley South in 1963 on the same day.
For context on the older parts of the suburb: In particular Legend Park Estate was opened by Hooker Rex in 1971.