Switchboard Upgrades in Glen Waverley

With roughly 2538 residents per square kilometre, Glen Waverley homes generally have single-phase supply and a board with somewhere between six and twelve circuits. Glen Waverley sits about 19 kilometres out in Monash. Adding solar, a charger or a heat pump is what usually brings the board into question here.

For Glen Waverley, Monash is not involved. The party that matters is the distributor, and only when the service or metering changes. Burwood East, Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley are close enough together that we treat them as one run rather than three separate jobs.

By the numbers: 42642 people, roughly 16.8 square kilometres, postcode 3150, inside Monash. That is Glen Waverley as of the 2021 census. For what it is worth on the day: In particular Legend Park Estate was opened by Hooker Rex in 1971. Build era predicts whether the supply is overhead or underground.

Glen Waverley sits inside a block we cover properly rather than occasionally. The neighbouring suburbs on that run are Burwood East, Mount Waverley, Mulgrave and Notting Hill. Being around 19 kilometres from the city, Glen Waverley is close enough to Boronia that we can usually get someone there the same week.

Glen Waverley has Glen Waverley railway station, and a station usually means older commercial frontage nearby and a mix of housing eras spreading out from it. And on the history that shaped the streets: In 2011, IKON Glen Waverley was constructed as a 10-storey apartment, office, retail and car parking complex between the railway station and Kingsway.

There is more to the local history than that: 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.