Keys to our new home in Emerald
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After travelling in our EV for a year, up and down the east coast of Australia, we have the keys to our new home, in Emerald Victoria! After a few stressful days wondering if the money transfer worked with ANZ Australia, we picked up our keys from Barry Plant Emerald.
Thanks also to Mortgage Choice in Tumbi Umbi, NSW, for sorting out the otherwise mind numbing loan application forms, to get us this far.
The painter has already started prepping. We’ve organised new carpet. Hopefully the solar and battery will follow soon from Lightning Energy.
Charging
The all important test of our new home: the power point in the garage charged the car at 2.3kW for a couple of hours with no heating in the power point. So, the electrics seem good!
Lightning Energy will also be connecting our Tesla wall charger, when it arrives with our removalist in about three weeks. The house has only single phase power, so we’ll get about 7.5kW out of it. That’s 7.5kWh per hour. So, our 60kWh battery will get half a tank in 30 / 7.5 = 4 hours. That will come free from our solar panels.
Be prepared for wild storms taking out the power though
If you can, get a Tesla powerwall for blackout protection as there are lots of power cuts.
You will love living there. Give PB a wave from us and Incy Wincy is by far the best for coffee.
We won’t be unpacking for three weeks until the removalist delivers it from our storage shed in NSW.
Good luck with ANZ. I've been with them since my first car loan.
Now we're retired, we moved to Heritage Bank. People actually answer phones & good customer service unlike ANZ.
We do the same with our battery, panels and Teslas. It’s still just amazing every time!!!
Travelling powered by our star!☀️
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Lightning are fantastic, the did my solar and Tesla battery for me as well. Please say Gday to Luke for me (from Adam in Marysville).
Welcome to Victoria, the Dandenongs are the best!