Charlie Sparks works across Concord West regularly, from the station and Queen Elizabeth Park through the residential streets to Concord, North Strathfield, Rhodes and Liberty Grove.
Hot water is the theme here. Plenty of established homes carry ageing solar hot water collectors occupying prime roof space, and the question is whether that space earns more producing electricity instead. In most cases it does: a modern heat pump hot water unit, run on your own solar generation during the day, delivers the same hot water while freeing the roof entirely and giving you somewhere useful to send surplus power. Where the existing collectors are sound, a hot water diverter can achieve something similar without removing them. Either way it is worth costing properly rather than working around the old system by default.
And because we are local, we are still here when you need a service call, a warranty claim, or a battery added down the track.
Water heating is one of the largest single items on a household electricity bill. Shifting it onto your own daytime generation removes a substantial recurring cost, and solar covers the rest of your daytime draw at the same time.
The federal STC incentive takes thousands off the upfront cost and comes straight off your quote. Heat pump hot water units attract their own certificates as well, and NSW incentives can apply, so we check every avenue and lodge the paperwork.
Your own generation insulates you from retailer increases and network charges you have no say over. Add a battery and the essentials keep running through an outage, which is worth having when storms come through and take the local network with them.
Moving hot water off gas or off-peak grid electricity and onto rooftop solar is one of the largest emissions reductions available to a household. Every unit generated on your own roof is one less drawn from fossil fuel generation.
We have kept the process straightforward, with no high-pressure sales calls and no surprise charges along the way.
Our crews are through Concord West and the surrounding Canada Bay suburbs constantly, so a fault or a monitoring dropout is handled in days, not weeks. You are dealing with a local operation that answers the phone, not an interstate call centre.
Every installer on our team holds current Clean Energy Council accreditation, which is what makes your system eligible for the STC rebate, and every system is installed to AS/NZS 5033 and AS/NZS 4777 with proper isolation, labelling and handover documentation.
Terracotta and concrete tile on the Federation and interwar homes, metal on additions, we have worked across all of them. We also know how to remove old solar hot water collectors and make good the roof properly, which is where these jobs most often go wrong.
Every electrician we send out is fully NSW-licensed and our solar installers hold current CEC accreditation. Full public liability and workers compensation cover is in place on every job from the moment we arrive.
We install equipment with a proven Australian track record: Tier 1 panels backed by local support offices, and inverters from Fronius, Sungrow, SolarEdge and GoodWe. No obscure imports that leave you stranded when a warranty claim comes up.
Our quotes are scoped properly the first time. Switchboard condition, existing roof equipment, hot water arrangements, roof access and tile handling are all checked before we price the job, so there is no surprise extra on installation day.
We work the way tradespeople used to: straight conduit, torqued and labelled connections, a swept site, and a proper walkthrough before we leave. Call six months later with a question and you will get an answer, not voicemail.
Concord West sits in the northern part of our Canada Bay service area. If your suburb is on this list, our team is already working nearby most weeks.
Most Concord West homes are completed in a single day. Removing old solar hot water collectors and changing over the hot water system at the same time usually adds a day, and your quote states the timeframe clearly before you commit.
Most Concord West homes suit 6.6kW to 10kW, and reclaiming roof space from old hot water collectors often lifts what is achievable by a couple of kilowatts. If you are moving hot water onto electricity, size upward accordingly. We size from your actual bills, not a sales target.
They are. Every installer on our team holds current Clean Energy Council accreditation, which is what makes your system eligible for the federal STC rebate and compliant with Australian standards.
Yes, and you will never see a form. The rebate comes off your quoted price before you pay anything, and we lodge the paperwork on your behalf, including for heat pump hot water where that forms part of the job.
Expect a 25-year performance warranty and a 10 to 15 year product warranty on Tier 1 panels, and 5 to 10 years on inverters depending on the brand, with extensions often available. Our own workmanship warranty sits on top of that.
