Building a Garbage Can Enclosure - Part 2 

Maybe add some wire with a clip to the lid? That way when you open the structure lid, the can lip also opens?

@April - I would recommend closing the gaps in the lids. Wheeling the cans in backwards and leaving the lids on the cans open. When it's trash day, the handles to maneuver the full cans will be easily accessible and closing off the wood gaps will reduce the chance of water filling them up during the rain. Nice job!

add a string with hook from the bin-lid to the wooden lid. No need to hold any of them when open

I'll have to grow my hair so I will have somewhere to store my pencil ;0 :) Great build April.

A rubberband with a hook from the lid to the garbage can lid will open the garbage can lid also when you open the wooden lid.

Came out great April! I love the idea of hiding the trash cans!

Your shocks are upside down. The oil inside won't condition the seals. Recommend flipping them. We manufacture trailers and learned years ago the hard way.

What a tidy solution for a common problem, the lift shocks are brilliant. You also have excellent taste in t-shirts! hahaha

April, Great job!. One suggestion though. You may wanna install a string, coat hanger, copper cable to unlatch the door latches from inside, just in case you have kids running around and trapping themselves inside. I learned my lesson when my wife trapped herself inside a tool shed many years ago. :)

Looks good. I would maybe add a bungee cord that pulls open the lid of the trashcan when opening the top lid.

very nice...love the shocks! great idea!

I was thinking about putting a little hook so it hooks on the groove on the bin lid so when u open the lid it also opens the bin lid to take the bin out just turn the hook to unhook it and pull it out

Great job April. One suggestion to make your life even easier. Permanently attach a properly sized bungee cord from the inside wooden lid and attach the other end to a drilled hole in your trash can. Now when the gas shock raises the wooden lid it also lifts the plastic garbage can lid. Life is good again!

You could hook a removable bungie or something from the can lids to the enclosure lid so it would be one move. Nice G can house, people could live in that thing, with shingles and stuff.

I was hoping you would never succumb to posting trashy videos... :P nice project though!

You really need to treat the underside of the floor and bearers to help prevent rot. You should also raise the bearers up from the ground on bricks or concrete block. Also place some membrane material i.e slate, building membrane or plastic or aluminum sheet between the blocks and the bearers. This will prevent any moisture rising up from the ground and soaking into the timber bearers.

This is exactly perfect for storing my mower and yard tools in.The gas shocks were right on the money! I'm on it! Thanks and you did a kick ass job👏👏👏✌

I love how when you run into an obstacle, (like the doors not lining up in this video) you show it and explain how you overcame it.

What I like about you April is your like a little kid when your finished and it turns out great. Your work is awesome and inspirational. Thanks :)

You should add a sensor to the light! I did that with the LED lamp (same one, just smaller) in my garage and it's really worth it.

I have many raccoons that open my trash can and feast. Great idea to keeps the animals out

Didn't see the lid coming, that shock absorber is a great idea!

Great project. I've been thinking about building something similar. Guess I will have to get on it now. Thanks for sharing. And thanks for sharing plans

You can use blocks under the bin to keep it level and keep the wood off the ground. Thanks for sharing!

Great idea and build! Love the little jig you do at the end of the video lol.

An empty box is recycling.................... not trash, don't you have a recycle bin too. just a foot note , if you break the box down you get more in ... , ok it was a prop . I got it ....

Hi April, I love your stuff and thanks a ton for sharing. Please please please explain how you put the gas struts on? You didn't show how you measured the positions, just how you attached them and such :( I can't find any instructions on this anywhere. I'm only aware of the gas purge adjustment

Not just for storing trash cans. But maybe for pool supplies. grill storage, or an AC cover. Thanks for the ideals!

I just came to the realization that I too will building an enclosure for my cans. I am glad they aren't as big as the one in this video! LOL Also, just subscribed. I cannot believe RU-vid has never suggested your channel to me but I see you have YEARS worth of what look to be really cool projects so I am anxious to start watching a bunch of them.

You are awesome April. LOVE YOUR VIDS!!!! You do a really great job.

Those LED Lights look like a prison set of lights. Eeeewww....... All you need is some guard towers.

Like your projects very much, but I do not do Instagram, so is your pic's of your final project on you web site or some p;ace other than Instagram that I can view them?? Thanks much.

Excellent work and design was wondering what to do with our rubbish bins now I know..Thanks April

It's not fair, women have better methods of holding a pencil. Us men have to put up with sticking it behind our ears where it regularly falls off; women can stick a pencil in their hair! :-)

Once you paint you can't go back. I painted some outdoor Adirondack chairs in white and regret it. The paint won't last and you will have to repaint more than will want to. I would recommend some type of oil finish like pure lindseed oil. It's very easy to reapply.

I want to build an 8-yard front load dumpster for my bags of recycle's of bottles and cans we have lots of bags filled with bottles and cans but the bags get to much sun then fall apart when u grave them so the front load dumpster is to protect them from the Sun it will also have wheels in case I want to ever move the dumpster in a different location so the back panel is going to be 6 ft tall and 5 ft wide and front panel is 5 ft tall and 5 ft wide and the bottom is going to be 5 feet wide and 6 feet long so it not exactly an 8 yd front load dumpster but it is close to it normally a 8 yd front load dumpster is 7 ft tall back panel with 6 ft wide and front panel is 6x6 panel and bottom is 5 feet wide and 6 feet long but my space is only a little bit over 5 ft I would say maybe almost 5 ft and a half so I'm just going to make it 5 ft wide and 6 ft tall and front panel 5 ft x 5 ft and bottom panel make it longer from the front to back so it'll be 5 ft wide and 6 ft long giving it more room and then the lid will be one giant lid and I'm going to make it out of two by fours and if possibly plywood panels probably marine grade or something like that so they'll make it more waterproof but I am going to possibly paint it or stain it I wanted to look nice but that'll be for a later time and maybe a cover over that space so that when it rains it doesn't get wet in case the waterproofing solution that I use may not be good enough reason for using plywood cuz I don't want the sun to leak inside and get one of the bags brittle you said it's yourself the panels that you were using will shrink and then if they shrink then they'll be spaces where the sun can come in

LED Flood light link isnt working.. Thank you for the video, love the gas lifters.

Cool video! Why not put a light with a motion sensor? That way you don't have the light all night, don't need to go and switch it on and off every time you go out side and with the timer - It will work only in the night so you don't worry about it switching on in the day and waist electricity

It makes a good job of hiding those trash cans. I like your pencil holder, but as my hair is thinning I don't think I would be able to use that method.PS in the UK we call them "wellie bins"

awsome the video. if u put some rope on to the bin. when u opon it. it will opon the bin lid as well.

With a bit of tweaking to the gas spring mounting locations, you should be able to get it to move over center and start to extend a little when the lid is in the lowest position, making the hook unnecessary. The spring will both hold the lid closed and open.

This probably won’t get answered but, can this exact frame layout be done for a 8ft shed if it had some supports in the middle? (Just the frame)

Looking for one that has hinged lift lid that opens on front side and the doors to remove on the back side. This way the side to remove the trash cans to put on curb are accessible outside the fenced yard but the hinge lid accessible from the yard. Or one with doors on front and back. Many I know want the later version especially for the elderly and disabled having easier access.

Super neat, I saw one on wayfair. But your design look sturdier. I think I should make one and modify it to make it as a chicken coop. 😅

If the gas struts are horizontal (parallel to lid) when closed, you don't need a latch. (see kitchen hob units)

It's wonderful, pity that here in my country may need several dumpsters, one for each type of waste, afraid that he would need to build a hut to save all the dumpsters!

I like your design but where I live the winter can be a bitch, The only change I will make is a weather proof roof.

You are amazing very creative. I wish I can have your skills very awesome. 👍

I hate it when I loose my pencil in my hair. Being nearly bald that doesn't happen very often ;-)

I integrated my trash bin and recycling bin below a bench on my deck so in winter I didn’t have to walk through the snow.

Attach a rope that yo can attach and detach from roof to lid then lid will open when you open roof

Is there another name for the shocks? I’m having trouble finding them

We are practically neighbors with our matching Fort Worth trash cans.

wow thanks for sharing this video.

Would love to know what the final cost for all the supplies were to build this shed?

Hope u did not know ur head with the door when installing the shock when the plastic support slipped

Yes, looks great. I'll see if I can do this.. Maybe get a few orders🙂

should have put the structural piece on the hinge side of the door. At the moment it's not doing that much good, and over time the doors will drop

Small world, I was looking for ideas to hide my trash cans and the first video I watch is someone else from fort worth so the trash cans are the exact same.

What an awesome idea! I hate looking at the ugly trash cans along the fence in our backyard. We totally need to build one of these. Good work! :)

you could attach magnets to the trash can lids and a rope wit a washer to the wooden lid so when you open the wooden one the trasch can opens automatically and when you have to brig them out you only have magnets and not a permanent connection.

Where did u buy the pistons at? Could you provide a link for what you used?

i’ve been creating a design in my head for a garbage storage just like yours, it’s so eerie how similar we see this project and how we want it to function. swing open doors, liftable lid, having two separate lids instead of one, even down to using gas shocks for the lids (which is what made me write this lol). granted, other people might have videos doing it the same way but i’ve only watched yours. i needed inspo for what i was gonna use to make the doors swingable, so thank you for that ! the only difference is i was going to use pallets because i can get them for free to save on costs (4 bins in total, so two pallets each for floor, lid, front/back walls, and then one for each side wall). using pallets themselves as walls , will i run into any problems besides the storage just being heavier than normal? i’m a complete amateur with woodworking projects and all i have is a drill/impact, circular, and reciprocating saw lol. thanks for any advice you’re willing to share

very cool! great idea! love the happy jump at the end!

how much to build me for three 32 gallons trash bin..

You should add a string or chain attached to the lid of trash can and lid of shed to pull up and a carabiner to un hook them on trash day to make life easier

How can i get the plan? the website payment did not work for me

Is that pressure treated wood, I didn't see you treat the wood, that shed looks like its going to last 5 years or so, otherwise its good.

Not going to work for us cause we always overfill the bins 🤭

This was a great idea. I really like your design! I hope the grass wasn't hurt when you fell on it :)

You added the shocks to...Hold the door? :((

There's a very good idea and keeps the animals in the bears out

April, if you place your trash cans in with the lids open and the other way around you will not have to open the trash can top and then you can just pull the can out. That is how I’ve placed mine 👍🏼 love you plans, thank you.

Best DIY project ever! I need to redo my side gate/pickets...you gave me some ideas. Are you going to paint or stain? Olympic Elite stain is really good. Excellent work on this!

That came out really nice, April! I think I might have to make something like that. Not only to hide our garbage cans but to keep all the spiders and critters away haha.

looks good but is it armadillo proof? lol i do know about texas critters.

just a idea maybe use an old ratchet strap with a hook or a clip

Hello, thank you for sharing all those useful videos. I see that you have neighbors living close to your house. Especially when you work with those loud machines, long hours outside, don't they complain about the noise ?

another great project ! the gussets to hold square was a great fix to the door gaps!!!!

Way too much work and $ to hide garbage cans.

. . . might just be RACOON proof.

If you ran your bracing for the backs and sides diagonally instead of horizontally, you might not have had that racking problem... but the little braces sorted that quite well. Why do you have to wait to paint treated wood?

Then when she is done the city says hey let's give everyone a yard waste bin

Love the gas strut... but please don't paint that beautiful thing. Use an exterior sealing wood stain. They even have them in solid colors that color the wood yet still allow the wood grain to show through. Sherwin Williams has some great choices.

Hey April if you was to put a bungee cord from the wooden lid to the trash can lid then you don't have to reach in to open the trash can. just a thought let me know what you think.

How much does it cost to build one for three trash cans

I was wondering how you were going to hold the top up while throwing away some trash. Perfect solution. Such a great idea. Nice job April!

Can anyone tell me where I can buy those shocks at?

I have the same cans!, and I need to do this project, they look pretty ugly in my back yard, esp since mine is not fenced off .. great project! I like the idea of the gas cylinders to hold up the lids!

Really nice, April!! Did you throw cardboard into the trash instead of recycling bin?

you could add a string and a carabener attach from both lids so when you open the wooden lid the trach can lid opens up!

Want to build it. Can I get your plans?

Great work how can I get the plans for this

Great job Mam, I really enjoyed the two videos on this. The gas struts are also a good idea, but I find they loose their mojo after a few years and then you need to replace them. Noticed you kneeling and sitting on ground so you obviously don't have fire ants at your place.

just an idea that popped into my mind towards the end of the video...A string and clip attached from the garbage can lid to the enclosure lid, so the enclosure lid will lift the garbage can lid? Hope this makes sense, lol. Keep it up fellow maker!

you could have attached the cabinet lid to the lid of the bin so that when you open the cabinet led the bin lid opens as well....just a small hook and chain so you can disconnect it for rubbish day???

Nice build and video. How about running a rope and a hook from the inside of the enclosure lid to the trash can lid so opening the enclosure lid will open and hold open the trash can lid at the same time?

what no paint or stain ... this is not the usual April .... Nice project though

I was thinking the same thing! **giggle**

Thanks for sharing. It definitely improves the looks and makes the bins critter-proof.