EV Charger Installation Burleigh Heads

What Makes EV Charger Installation in Burleigh Heads Different

Salt air and what it does to a Burleigh Heads meter box

Anything within a few streets of the beach here lives in salt air, and it reaches the electrical gear before it reaches anything else. Meter box hinges seize and the enclosure rusts through at the bottom edge. The terminals inside pick up a green film that stops them gripping properly.

It changes what we install as well as what we find. Outdoor gear on a Burleigh block needs a properly sealed enclosure and stainless fixings. Standard zinc screws in this air weep rust down the wall inside two summers. If your charger has to go on an outside wall, say so early, because it changes the unit we recommend.

Original beach blocks with nowhere to park off the street

Plenty of the older housing near the headland sits on small lots with no garage and no driveway. The car lives on the street. A charger needs a fixed parking spot on your own property. On those places a wall charger is not the right thing.

Check that before you buy a unit. If there is a strip of land beside the house a car can sit on, there is usually a way to do it. We will tell you on site which you have.

Garages under the house on the Burleigh hill

The streets climbing away from the beach are full of split level homes with the garage tucked under the living areas. That part is good news. The car ends up close to the middle of the house.

The catch is that the meter box usually sits up at the street boundary where the supply comes in, which is a storey above the garage. The run is short in plan and long in practice once it follows the wall down. We measure it on site.

Before we quote

What We Usually Find in a Burleigh Heads Meter Box

01
Corrosion on anything mounted outside
Rust at the base of the enclosure and a film on the terminals. We replace what the salt has got to, because a loose terminal under charging load heats up.
02
A run that drops a full storey
On the hill the meter box is at street level and the car is under the house. The cable has to be sized for the real length, not the distance across the driveway.
03
Two very different answers on one street
An original beach block and the rebuild next door are rarely the same job. One is single phase with a tired board, the other has three phase sitting there unused.

Property types

EV Charging for Burleigh Heads Houses, Units and Rebuilds

These are the four kinds of property we work on in Burleigh Heads, and what each one means before anyone puts a number on it.

Original beach houses

Fibro and timber on small lots near the headland. Single phase, an older board, and often no off-street parking, which is the thing to settle before anything else.

Esplanade walk-up units

Three and four storey blocks with a shared car park and a common switchboard. The wiring is usually workable. Getting the body corporate to agree where the power comes from is the slow part.

Split level homes on the hill

Garage under the house, meter box up at the street. The cable follows the wall down a full storey, so the run is longer than the driveway suggests.

Knockdown rebuilds

The newer homes through here often went in with three phase and a modern board. That puts 11kW and 22kW on the table and usually makes for a straightforward day.

What we do here

Our EV Charger Installation Services in Burleigh Heads

EV Charger Installation Near Burleigh Heads

We cover the suburbs either side of Burleigh Heads on the same run, so a job next door is an ordinary day for us.

Common questions

EV Charger Installation Burleigh Heads FAQs

Does living near the beach in Burleigh Heads change the install?

It changes the gear, not the standard. Salt air gets into outdoor switchgear, so anything mounted outside needs a properly sealed enclosure and stainless fixings.

A charger in the garage or under a carport is usually the better call, and it costs no more.

Can I get a charger if I park on the street?

No, and it is better to hear that before you buy a unit. A wall charger has to serve a fixed parking spot on your own property.

If there is a strip beside the house a car can sit on, there is usually a way to do it. We will tell you on site which situation you are in.

My garage is under the house. Is that a short run or a long one?

Longer than it looks. The meter box is usually at the street boundary where the supply comes in. The garage is a storey below, so the cable follows the wall down.

It is still a normal job. We measure the actual route on site, because the cable has to be sized for the length as well as the load.

Is three phase available in Burleigh Heads?

In parts of it. A lot of the rebuilt homes up the hill already have it, and the original beach housing generally does not.

Energex runs the distribution network for the Gold Coast, so what is available in your street and any connection change is decided by them. We check your address and lodge the application if the upgrade is worth doing.

How long does an install take in Burleigh Heads?

On a newer build up the hill with a modern board, usually a day. An original beach block takes longer when the board needs work or the salt has got into the meter box.

Anything needing a connection change from the network runs to their timing. We give you a realistic picture once we have seen the board.

EV Charger Installation Burleigh Heads

What Makes EV Charger Installation in Burleigh Heads Different

Salt air and what it does to a Burleigh Heads meter box

Original beach blocks with nowhere to park off the street

Garages under the house on the Burleigh hill

What We Usually Find in a Burleigh Heads Meter Box

Corrosion on anything mounted outside

A run that drops a full storey

Two very different answers on one street