God is in the Details

I am planning to build a bin store as a two meter section at one end of our piggery. And because I can be really cack-handed, there's a hose point and a drain. Yogurt stinks if it isn't sluiced away. A metal gate should prevent our inventive foxes from their normal Tom-Thievery. 

Is this where your bins live in the week, or where they go for bin emptying day?

 

At the moment our bins are next to the raised deck step into the static 'van. We find we like that arrangement as it places then right next to the kitchen door and places the lids low down in relation to the floor level of the entrance platt, at about handrail level.  We are almost certainly going to replicate that when we move into the house.

In these bungalows the door you can see in the background in the top photo is the kitchen door, so the placement is about as good as it can get.

 

Here's one from a tenement back court in Glasgow. Kinda traditional but practical...

On 2017-5-13 at 09:30, ProDave said:

Is this where your bins live in the week, or where they go for bin emptying day?

 

At the moment our bins are next to the raised deck step into the static 'van. We find we like that arrangement as it places then right next to the kitchen door and places the lids low down in relation to the floor level of the entrance platt, at about handrail level.  We are almost certainly going to replicate that when we move into the house.

 

The idea is that they live there because:

 

1 - It is at the side front so close to the side door from the kitchen - away from the back door.

2 - It is away from the back garden, so not near where people sit out.

3 - Close to the front so little distance to wheel bins to the front.

4 - Just higher than bin-height so the bins are hidden.

5 - Perforated so the through-draught takes away smells.

6 - Off to the side so hidden from visitors and the people in the house going out.

I managed to combine the requirement for an external meter box fence with a screen for the bin storage area (this is an old photo, the bins now live where the junk is and the ground in front has been landscaped):

 

 

Because our lane is narrow, with no grass verges, I needed to create somewhere to leave the bins, as the refuse people have to have them near the roadside.  The solution was this stone paved area just inside one of the gate posts:

 

 

Edited June 29, 2017 by JSHarris