Coolangatta is the Gold Coast's southern border town, mostly apartments on the beachfront with older houses and units behind, and the Tweed River entrance just to the south.
Building a shed in Coolangatta
Only about one in eight Coolangatta dwellings is a separate house, so shed projects here are mostly single garages, carports and storage for the houses and townhouses behind the beach.
The beaches are fed by the Tweed River sand bypassing system, which has pumped sand from Letitia Spit to outlets at Snapper Rocks, Duranbah and Kirra since 2001. That keeps the beaches, but the air is still heavily salt-laden, so coastal-grade cladding and fixings matter.
Coolangatta's BoM station records about 1,535 mm of rain a year with afternoon sea breezes around 21 km/h. We design roof drainage and door seals for wind-driven rain, not just the total.