Clipsal’s Home Upgrade Options and Ideas - Clipsal by Schneider Electric

Your home electrical selections play an important role in the way that you and your family live in your home. Carefully considered electrical plans can help you to enrich, connect and protect not only your home but more importantly your loved ones.

We recommend that you speak with your electrician or builder about the vast range of Clipsal options available for you. They are the experts in home electrical and are there to support and guide you through the electrical planning process. Now let’s explore some of the great options available for your renovation or new build project.

Your Home, Your Style

From the moment you walk into a home, you get a sense of the homeowners style. Whether through the use of specific colour palettes, use of materials, textures and furnishings.

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What’s Your Style?

Whether you love Classic, Contemporary, Industrial or Natural, your home electrical selections need to complement your interior style. Discover which style you most suited to and which electrical solutions best suit that style.

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Safety and protection of Aussie homes is our #1 priority

We now spend more time in our homes than ever. It has never been so important to ensure that we have, not only adequate but, optimal safety and protection solutions to help keep you, your family, your home and valuable possessions as safe as possible.

We have created a list of our top 3 tips to help you improve safety of you new home or renovation and your loved ones.

Scroll across to discover the Top 3 Tips!

TIP #1: Smoke Alarms

It is recommended that houses have multiple smoke alarms installed and ensure that your smoke alarms are interconnected.
We recommend smoke alarms be installed in bedrooms and living spaces as well as hallways and stairwells.

Care and maintain your smoke alarm units:

You should test, clean and check your smoke alarm unit and batteries regularly – we recommend once a month.
Help prevent insects from finding their way into your smoke alarm by spraying insect repellent directly onto a cloth and wiping the ceiling around the smoke alarm unit every 3 months.
You should replace the batteries in your smoke alarm unit every year.
All smoke alarm units should be replaced every 10 years.

TIP #2: Circuit Protection:

We recommend 3 levels of safety solutions for home electrical protection.

RCBOs: Help protect your loved ones and the electrical cables in your home.
Surge Protection devices: Help protect all the valuable appliances and devices within your home from lightning strikes, power surges and voltage spikes.
Arc Fault Detection Devices: Help protect your home from arc faults and reduce the chance of potential house fires caused by arc faults.

TIP #3: Lighting Solutions:

Exterior Lighting:

Consider your exterior lighting to ensure that you and your guests can safely make their way to your door in the dark whilst also deterring unwanted intruders.
Motion sensors, timers or sunset switches are great ways to control your exterior lights.

Indoor Lighting:

We recommend Iconic Night Walk light. This subtle LED night light is ideal for helping illuminate a clear path without disturbing other sleepers in your home!
Iconic Night Walk has 2 modes:
- Sensor light (which comes on when movement is detected, and remains on for 2 minutes.
- Night Light (dimmed light comes on a night time. This mode brightens when movement is detected, then dims down after 2 minutes)
Indoor motion sensors are all great for safe hands free control in entrances or when walking down stairs at night.

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Energy management for your home

There are many ways to save energy around your home, but with so many options it is hard to know where to start, so we thought we’d make it easy for you.

We’ve identified a few options for you to consider ahead of your new build or renovation project to help you reduce your energy consumption and in turn energy costs, without sacrificing comfort and lifestyle.

Discover our Energy Management tips to consider for your home project – scroll across to explore.

Control your energy usage with app controlled devices

The Clipsal Iconic range of connected switches, dimmers and power points can be controlled using the Wiser Room app from a smart phone or tablet.

The 24hr timer and 24/7 scheduling functions are the perfect timers and time-clocks are the perfect safety net for your power bills and adds a little convenience in your home.

This simple, scalable connected solution allows you to control a range of functions and set schedules based on your predicted energy usage.

Lighting control to support energy usage

Lighting plays a very important part in your house design, comfort and ongoing energy costs.

LED lighting is the most energy-efficient and longest lasting lighting product on the market today. LED lighting can save between 30-80% of energy compared to other types of lighting.
Dimming your lights can save up to 50% on energy
Motion sensors switch off unnecessary lighting and can save 30-50% on energy. Ideal for use inside in laundries, pantries, walk-in wardrobes, garages and outdoors in driveways, under verandas, etc.
Timer switches can save up to 30% on energy. Ideal for use in toilets, bathrooms, pantries, walk-in wardrobes, heated towel rails and more.

Energy Monitoring:

Energy takes up a significant portion of every household budget. Tracking its usage is tricky, but essential to identifying inefficiencies and reducing the amount you spend on energy bills.
Turn your smartphone or tablet into your energy advisor. Track your electricity consumption in detail, generate estimates for energy bills, keep an eye on your monthly budget, and get notified about any household electrical issues.
Consider if energy monitoring is important to you and speak to your consultant about how Energy management by Wiser can help you as it is part of Energy management by Wiser solution.

Electric Vehicle Charging Solutions:

Do you have an electric vehicle? If so, you may want to consider installing an electric vehicle charging station for your home garage.
Our EVlink Wallbox is robust, easy to use and is designed for indoor (garage) or outdoor use and can be wall-mounted or floor-standing.