Pest Control Burleigh Heads, QLD 4220

Why Burleigh Heads properties face the pressures they do

The housing stock

Burleigh Heads town allotments were surveyed in the 1870s, and two housing estates of 92 lots sold in 1915. Early cottages and holiday flats came first. The Koala Park residential area followed in the 1960s, the first apartment building (Goodwin Terrace) in 1967, and 20-storey blocks in the 1980s. By the 2021 Census, 46.7% of occupied dwellings were apartments and 39.0% separate houses, across 10,572 residents.

Water, ground and moisture

Burleigh sits on the northern side of the Tallebudgera Creek mouth. Council’s hydrological study describes a 97.6 km² catchment with a main stream about 32 km long, and lower reaches that are flat and fully urbanised. Calibrated floods include February 1972, January 1974, March 1987, April 1988 and February 1990.

Vegetation on the doorstep

Burleigh Head National Park (27 ha, gazetted 1947) sits on the headland. Burleigh Ridge Park carries eucalypt forest used by koalas, and the Ocean Parade Bush Reserve and Tallebudgera Creek Conservation Park add mangroves and bushland on the doorstep of residential streets.

What we actually look at in Burleigh Heads

Slab edges, subfloors, stumps, weep holes and ant caps — plus the interior room by room, the roof void where there is safe access, and the fences, retaining walls, stumps, decks and trees inside the property boundary. Termites arrive from the yard, not the front door.

The four things that most often matter on a Burleigh Heads property:

• Bushland edges along Burleigh Ridge and the national park, where native trees and stumps host termite nests close to homes.
• Timber cottages and 1960s homes with original framing, stumps and sleeper walls still in place.
• Apartment and townhouse complexes, where shared gardens and slab joints are the common entry point.
• Flat, damp ground in the lower Tallebudgera reaches that stays wet well after rain.

Where Burleigh Heads sits on termite risk

CSIRO’s termite hazard map (Managing Termites, CSIRO) places south-east Queensland, including the Gold Coast, in Zone C, medium hazard, on a four-band scale (A negligible, B low, C medium, D high). CSIRO’s framing is that risk on the mainland “generally increases in a northerly direction, with the highest risk in the subtropics and tropics.” The map is regional, not suburb-level, so what actually changes street by street is the construction, the moisture and the vegetation described above.

Source: CSIRO, Managing Termites (CSIRO Infratech), Figure 3, after Leicester et al. (2003), A risk model for termite attack in Australia. The hazard map is regional, not suburb-level.

The termites that matter here

Two subterranean species do most of the structural damage in Burleigh Heads: Coptotermes acinaciformis, which Queensland Government describes as the most economically important and widespread subterranean termite, and Schedorhinotermes species. Both occur throughout Queensland and both attack all timber, especially pine. The West Indian drywood termite (Cryptotermes brevis) is also established in parts of south-east Queensland; it needs no ground contact and lives on the moisture in the timber itself. Full species detail and what each one does →

Our services in Burleigh Heads

A general pest treatment is $300 including GST for a standard Burleigh Heads home — inside, outside and the accessible roof void. A termite inspection with a written AS 3660.2 report is $350, and a Termidor HE treated zone is measured and quoted at $78 per lineal metre. German cockroach is excluded from general treatments and quoted separately at $180 per affected room. Full price list and exclusions →

Every product we apply is APVMA-registered for the use we put it to and applied at label rate, and we will tell you what went where. We do not describe treatments as chemical free, non-toxic or one hundred per cent safe. Every product we use, by name →

Around Burleigh Heads

We work Burleigh Heads regularly: the James Street precinct, the Norfolk pines along the beachfront (planted from 1934), the headland, and the G:link light rail terminus at Burleigh Heads station. Population was 10,572 at the 2021 Census.

Pest control in Burleigh Heads — frequently asked