Garbage/Recycle Can storage ideas

[patent pending]

While it is nice to have the city come pick up our trash I am not fond of losing space in my garage to this monstrosity of a can. We also just got a giant "recycle everything" can that is gonna **** up even more space I dont have. Anybody have any good outside storage ideas for these things? HOA didnt like it when I was keeping it in the driveway for some reason.

 

[D rock]

Could you build a small L fence (4X4 maybe) off the side of your house?

I have a small fence inside my fence I keep my cans in, keeps the dogs, cats and raccoons from strowing trash everywhere.

 

[patent pending]

DRock,
I probably should have at least given a picture so you can see what I've got to work with.


Cant really do anything on the sides of the house, or the right side of the garage. Either something on the back of the garage or possibly behind the fence in the space that runs between the garage to the deck. Something like a small fence to keep the critters out might work.

Also...you on classicbroncos.com? User name/location sounds familiar.

 

[sublimate]

Menards has this, which I really like:
http://www.menards.com/main/buildin...-horizontal-storage-unit/p-1766584-c-9575.htm
but unfortunately I don't have a Menards near me and they don't seem to let you order online.

I'm interested to see what you come up with.

 

[KULIWOBBY]

Wow, that unit Menards sells looks very nice to the eye. Hopefully if not you, the HOA will like that.

 

[eldirector]

I've got the same project on my honey-do list, though thankfully pretty far down. Plans are to either build or buy two of those storage units from Menards. One for trash cans and the second for parking kids toys (tricycle, wagon, soccer balls, etc...). Painted to match the house, they should look pretty nice.

 

[patent pending]

Thanks for the link sublimate....something like that would be perfect. Maybe even a couple, as has been said, to house my yard tools as well. No Menards close....and I'm too cheap to pay $400+ for them anyway. Looks like those would make a nice project....

 

[gahrajmahal]

I recently made this air conditioning unit cover and post about it. Sort of a similar problem.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=164238

 

[eriksalo]

The city gave me a really small can for composting. Its about 1 foot square and maybe 4 feet high. I use it for my garage garbage can as it fits in my garage nicely and is small enough where I have to empty it often. Also, even full of discarded car parts I can still lift it!

 

[UPRider]

You can pick up the trash can enclosure on Amazon, link here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0044YG2D2/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[sberry]

Cut a notch in a big shrub, ha, put green or camo can in, paint some sticks on it so it blends and looks like a bush.

 

[BigTDogg (MA)]

^^ This, LOL

 

[NUTTSGT]

Our recycling stuff is inthe house garage. The plastics (#1 & #2) go into separate plastic 55 gallon barrels, stacked. #1 on the bottom with a couple of 4x4 spacers between them.

Then I built a shelf over the garbage cans, it holds a container for glass, another for cardboard and one more for plastic bags. I have enough room on the shelf for a roll of trashbags (trash service), small container for used batteries and a utility knife to cut carboard if needed.

 

[mdbeck1]

Mine lives on the side of the house. There's a bush that mostly hides it from the street but I don't have to worry too much about HOAs here. However I now have a neighbor that has started to turn me in for little stuff.

 

[D rock]

DRock,
I probably should have at least given a picture so you can see what I've got to work with.


Cant really do anything on the sides of the house, or the right side of the garage. Either something on the back of the garage or possibly behind the fence in the space that runs between the garage to the deck. Something like a small fence to keep the critters out might work.

Also...you on classicbroncos.com? User name/location sounds familiar.

Yeah, I'm on CB. I have a '74 bronco that takes long vacations in my shop.

You might even try to keep it near the back door. Make it easy to take out the trash.

 

[beerdog]

I just stick mine along the side of the house. It is simply too big for the garage.

 

[shannonw]

No hoa but man i completely don't get the garbage can in the garage business either (but i'm so short of space it's nuts). I built a privacy panel (around 5 feet) surrounded it with bushy palms (areceas) on the sides and put it on the fence line! The neighbors can't view it due to the panel, it's pretty hidden off the side from the plants, and it's not along the side of the house which i see every time i drive up. I'd have done an L along the house side but i've got other plans for those locations.

Eventtually since i'm not hoa i want an L privacy hedge in the front corner of my lot and nestle them on a pad behind there on my side...that to me makes more sense than shoving them along houses or in garages.

For recyling, we have bins, it's frequently used so i mounted them on the wall

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106066

It's always a mess though not enough room or the recycle guys come in the middle of the night and i'm too lazy to get them out the night before do it piles up.

 

[patent pending]

scrapped together a little something over the weekend....

pays to be a packrat sometimes...had just enough odds and ends to make it work. only thing i had to buy were the hinges.

Still need another 2x4 to run across the front between the side walls to help keep the doors from pulling them inward, and find/make something to latch them together....didnt make a top lid which might be nice to have, but we'll see how it goes.

all in all, i'm happy with it....cause that was a lot of wasted space in my garage!

 

[MustangFJ]

I have always thought it would be cool to make a special mini attached garage that I could could dedicate to these big cans If it were linked to the kitchen with a true exterior door it would be convenient to toss stuff out but the smells would say out of the house and the garage.

 

[ludakris04]

scrapped together a little something over the weekend....

pays to be a packrat sometimes...had just enough odds and ends to make it work. only thing i had to buy were the hinges.

Still need another 2x4 to run across the front between the side walls to help keep the doors from pulling them inward, and find/make something to latch them together....didnt make a top lid which might be nice to have, but we'll see how it goes.

all in all, i'm happy with it....cause that was a lot of wasted space in my garage!

I am thinking of something like this when I move into the new house. HOA has a rule that u can build a shed less than 4' tall w/o approval. I was thining something for the cans might fit into that... I have no intention of them being in the garage...
nice work

 

[JimVonBaden]

Mine is hidden behind the house, but not from the back patio.

Working on a solution, but interested in ideas.

Jim

 

[Matt M PA]

I cant find it on-line, but I got a trashcan "shed" at Lowes a number of years ago. It's just tall enough for our trashcans, and has a lift-up lid, and dutch doors in the front. It stays on our enclosed porch and looks alot better than the cans.

 

[Bubbles]

this is what i got

 

[Bubbles]

I put bigger gaps in mine and better legs on it

 

[speadphreak]

Pour a small concrete pad or make a flat with landscape timbers at the corner of your house right behind that large bush beside the power meter for the cans. Its better than in the garage, its not in the driveway and they will be kind of hidden.

 

[patent pending]

Pour a small concrete pad or make a flat with landscape timbers at the corner of your house right behind that large bush beside the power meter for the cans. Its better than in the garage, its not in the driveway and they will be kind of hidden.

Thanks for the idea...

Ended up building an enclosure to go out back behind the garage to keep them in.

 

[speadphreak]

Missed that one!