Hi everyone,
we are planning to retain a roughly 1.00m (3 ft 3 in) high slope in front of our house by using two concrete bin shelters. This means the concrete shelters will be placed in front of the already vertically cut natural slope, and the remaining space behind them will be filled with soil. This approach has some advantages:
- it allows us to partly hide the shelters
- we can avoid using gabions or similar alternatives here since the shelters need to be placed somewhere anyway
- the area above or behind the shelters can be better utilized or planted
- the shelters and the bins inside are well protected from heating up
We got this idea from our neighbor, whose (very reputable) landscape gardener solved it exactly this way.
Over the weekend, my wife and I bought two shelters at a factory outlet. I casually asked the very friendly and knowledgeable bin shelter specialist if these shelters could be used for this purpose. As I had already expected, she immediately and clearly said no. The slope behind must be retained differently, as the shelters are not designed for the expected loads.
Of course, I don’t want to build an additional wall, and since I believe I have seen this solution somewhere else besides my neighbor’s, I wanted to ask here if anyone has experience with something like this. Comments along the lines of "if the manufacturer advises against it, just don’t do it" are welcome but don’t really help me. What shouldn’t be done can still work perfectly, especially considering this is a natural slope.
So basically, I just want to hear "sure, go for it, I did the same, it works."
Seriously, has anyone done this? Should I perhaps fill the hollow space inside the shelters with stones so that the soil pressure can distribute more evenly before the shelter collapses? Concreting it won’t help unless I also create a proper foundation and add reinforcement.
From a gut feeling, I’d say the shelters can handle it easily. Any ideas?
we are planning to retain a roughly 1.00m (3 ft 3 in) high slope in front of our house by using two concrete bin shelters. This means the concrete shelters will be placed in front of the already vertically cut natural slope, and the remaining space behind them will be filled with soil. This approach has some advantages:
- it allows us to partly hide the shelters
- we can avoid using gabions or similar alternatives here since the shelters need to be placed somewhere anyway
- the area above or behind the shelters can be better utilized or planted
- the shelters and the bins inside are well protected from heating up
We got this idea from our neighbor, whose (very reputable) landscape gardener solved it exactly this way.
Over the weekend, my wife and I bought two shelters at a factory outlet. I casually asked the very friendly and knowledgeable bin shelter specialist if these shelters could be used for this purpose. As I had already expected, she immediately and clearly said no. The slope behind must be retained differently, as the shelters are not designed for the expected loads.
Of course, I don’t want to build an additional wall, and since I believe I have seen this solution somewhere else besides my neighbor’s, I wanted to ask here if anyone has experience with something like this. Comments along the lines of "if the manufacturer advises against it, just don’t do it" are welcome but don’t really help me. What shouldn’t be done can still work perfectly, especially considering this is a natural slope.
So basically, I just want to hear "sure, go for it, I did the same, it works."
Seriously, has anyone done this? Should I perhaps fill the hollow space inside the shelters with stones so that the soil pressure can distribute more evenly before the shelter collapses? Concreting it won’t help unless I also create a proper foundation and add reinforcement.
From a gut feeling, I’d say the shelters can handle it easily. Any ideas?
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