Stop wheelie bins falling over

Tea_Hee_23

So I return from work today to see that the entire contents of my general waste and plastic recycle wheelie bin are littered across my garden.

That's an hour I won't get back and Barney has certainly got the better of me on this occasion.

I remember seeing some wheelie bin stores / covers in my local Homebase. Does anyone have any feedback on these? They are like wooden containers for hiding wheelie bins in.

Any feedback or recommendations would be much appreciated.

firefox1956

Get a piece of chain & a couple of hooks for each wheelie bin.
Screw hooks into wall etc loop chainaround bin.
Cost £5.00
Job done
HTH

CoastalWarrior

firefox1956 wrote: »

Get a piece of chain & a couple of hooks for each wheelie bin.
Screw hooks into wall etc loop chainaround bin.
Cost £5.00
Job done
HTH

+1 Bungee cord will also work. Easily the most cost effective solution. I'd have been happy doing that with ours but the Mrs wanted something that looked nice.

But first are you living in a highly windy area? Depending on where you are a cover might not stop that either as if the wind gets underneath then it can take the cover too so it might not be the ideal solution.

I'm on the coast where it gets gale force quite often and we have a wooden cover for 2 bins and 2 recycle things, up against a wall and it was the only one I found that could be fixed to the floor with screws. I forget the name of it, will find it when I'm back at my main computer.

PS not sure this is the right thread for this? Although I bet someone here as made a cover out of pallets which is an option.

Tea_Hee_23

I live towards the top of a hill and adjacent to a field so I would say the wind levels are a moderate to fresh breeze.

The thread location should be fine, its garden related isn't it? Plus I don't want to spend a fortune.

My local council are introducing recycle boxes in the new year, so sheltering these is another consideration, but it seems like yours would accommodate both??

Davesnave

Tea_Hee_23 wrote: »

The thread location should be fine, its garden related isn't it? Plus I don't want to spend a fortune.

At this time of year, 'In My Home' gets more hits and therefore probably contains more practically-minded contributors.

OTOH, many of those would just make something....:o

This board [STRIKE]is full of [/STRIKE]may interest the sort of people who find planting marigolds a bit challenging.....:rotfl:

kathrynha

Mine are held in place with a chain. The shed is at one side of them, and fence at 2 sides, and a chain goes across the 4th side, that we just unhook to move a bin out.


Don't know if diagram below works but _____ = shed, | = fence, [] = wheelie bin and ~~~~ = chain attached to the 2 end fence posts.
_____
|[][][]|
~~~~


Top of bins still accessible so easy to put stuff in, and easy to pull bins out.

DaftyDuck

If you have two, shove them together, lid openings facing (think snogging wheelie bins). Wrap bungee cord round each lid/body individually (think "bondage"... elastic keeping gobs shut while bins snog)... Then stick a plank or broom handle through the two bungee cords, resting on the lids (I'll need to refer to my copy of the Karma Sutra for an analogy... hang on.... ) Nope... too exotic for that. I'll just look onlin... :eek: mmma... maybe I won't...

The idea is, keep the lids tight shut, keep the bins connected at the top. It stops the lids opening when the wind passes over them, and stabilises them at the same time. The low pressure created by the wind flowing over the lid will lift the lid up and, like an aerofoil, the lid will then lift and, in turn, twist the bin because of the vortex created in the bin. It'll either pull all the rubbish out, or just tip the whole thing over. Once the lid is out, the wind will twist the bin, and it will fall over, like some exhausted teenager afte... no, we've been there, haven't we?

I had a colleague who stuck a wheelie bin in a wind tunnel. I have some very, very strange colleagues...

Marigolds? Ah.. the plants, not the rubber yellow ones...