The Bureau of Meteorology has downgraded its forecast for the coming days with rainfall over 25 millimetres now looking less likely.
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Bureau duty forecaster Keris Arndt said steady rain was expected to reach Bendigo late Monday night or early Tuesday morning.
"We should get a fair dumping but not necessarily the flash flooding that we saw on Friday," he said.
Mr Arndt said more severe weather still wasn't out of the question, in which case warnings would be issued well in advance.
"We're more likely to get big falls if a thunderstorm goes over and there is some chance of that happening but it's looking more like steady rain at the moment," he said.
"If it's looking like there’s going to be really heavy rainfall there'll be severe weather warnings out for that on Monday."
Isolated showers are expected for Wednesday.
The SES urged residents to take the opportunity to clean gutters and drains, fix flashing and replace cracked tiles.
SES spokeswoman Natalie Stanway said good maintenance was always encouraged.
"Friday was really unusual in that we had a lot of water in a short space of time so a lot of the damage would have happened regardless," she said.
"But for the normal sort of storm activity, people ought to be prepared and ensure that their properties are maintained."
The SES was called to help sandbag a property in Maiden Gully on Friday that was threatened by floodwater.
SES volunteer Allison Williams-Rees said it was a combined effort with the Maiden Gully CFA.
"We assessed the situation and thought this is beyond our capacity with the resources we had at the time so we put our heads together with the CFA and came up with a plan," she said.
"We just formed a chain like a chain gang and they did the manpower and we laid the sandbags."
Ms Williams-Rees said the crews along with the homeowner managed to prevent any substantial damage.
"When you've got one crew with one lot of knowledge and one with another lot of knowledge it's amazing how well it works together," she said.
"When you put all that knowledge together it can be a great asset."