At around 2496 people per square kilometre, Blackburn properties can carry solar, a heat pump, hot water and a charger once the board and mains are right. At about 98 metres, Blackburn is low and level, and the biggest win is usually hot water followed by heating.
Blackburn sits about 16 kilometres out in Whitehorse. Rebates change the order of the stages more than the technology does. Whitehorse covers Blackburn. We check the overlay before designing anything that goes on a street-facing wall or roof plane.
Being next to Blackburn North and Blackburn South means Blackburn is almost never a standalone trip for our crew. For scale, the 2021 census counted 14478 people in Blackburn, across about 5.8 square kilometres of Whitehorse, postcode 3130.
Local context worth knowing: Blackburn railway station was built in 1882. Build era predicts the board, the mains and the insulation, and all three shape the order the work should be done in. Blackburn sits within a group of suburbs we are in constantly: Blackburn North, Blackburn South, Box Hill and Box Hill North.
We are based in Boronia, about 12.5 kilometres west of Blackburn. Close enough that the person who quotes the job is the person who comes back to do it. With Blackburn railway station in Blackburn, the streets nearest the line generally carry the oldest stock in the suburb.