Park Orchards is open country by metropolitan standards at around 404 people per square kilometre. Outages make backup a real part of the plan. Sitting at about 134 metres, Park Orchards has homes where the lower level is the coldest part and drives the heating design.
Park Orchards sits about 25 kilometres out in Manningham. Ducted gas heating is the biggest single item to replace here. Park Orchards falls across Manningham and Maroondah. We settle which applies at quoting stage.
We treat Park Orchards, Donvale and Nunawading as one working area rather than three separate postcodes. By the numbers: 3835 people, roughly 9.5 square kilometres, postcode 3114, inside Manningham. That is Park Orchards as of the 2021 census.
Some background on the place: == History ==
In 1902, prominent Victorian orchardist, Tom Petty, purchased 559 acres (226 ha) of land north of the Mitcham district and converted it to 80 orchard blocks. Build era predicts the board, the mains and the insulation, and all three shape the order the work should be done in. We are across Park Orchards along with Donvale, Nunawading, Ringwood North and Warrandyte, on the same rates and the same certificate.
It is around 11.3 kilometres north-west from our Boronia base to Park Orchards. Short runs like that are how we keep a fixed price honest instead of building travel into it. One more piece of local background: In 1925, South Melbourne timber merchants, Australias Sharp and John Taylor, purchased Petty's land and launched the Park Orchards Country Club Estate.
For context on the older parts of the suburb: At the 2021 census, Park Orchards recorded a population of 3,835.