At around 2223 people per square kilometre, Mount Waverley sites usually allow a planned weekend outage, which makes the program manageable. Mount Waverley is 16 kilometres from town. Middle-ring sites usually have workable access and a single occupier to coordinate with.
In Monash, which includes Mount Waverley, we coordinate the switching and the safety documentation rather than leaving it with the site. Ashwood, Burwood and Mount Waverley are close enough together that we treat them as one run rather than three separate jobs.
There were 35340 people living in Mount Waverley at the 2021 census, spread over around 15.9 square kilometres in Monash, postcode 3149. A note on how Mount Waverley developed: Post Offices at Mount Waverley North (opened 1959 closed 1983), Mount Waverley South (opened 1968 closed 1973), and Mount Waverley West (opened 1964 closed 1977) chart the wider residential development of the suburb. Development era predicts the age of the asset and whether any maintenance history exists for it.
Our working patch either side of Mount Waverley takes in Ashwood, Burwood, Burwood East and Chadstone, which is why availability here is usually good. From our Boronia workshop Mount Waverley is about 13.7 kilometres west, which is a short enough run that we can usually fit a look-in around another job rather than making it a separate trip.
Because Mount Waverley railway station sits in Mount Waverley, the suburb has the older-core, newer-edge pattern common along Melbourne's lines.