The composting bins I have now were built against a 4 foot high concrete block wall of the yard tool shed with 4 foot high scrab board walls extending outward 4 feet. The front is made of scrap pieces of T-111 siding as doors for access and scrap pieces of 5/8 inch plywood are laid on top for a lid. With the exception of the corner posts, 6 of them for two bins, all the rest was salvaged material from construction, including the stretchers that run between the conrer posts, ie. very low cost. That tool shed was constructed specifically to support compost bins as well as store the yard work tools.

"Umm... Other then taking offense at another's viewpoint, Chuck, are you saying that..." Well, no offense was taken at anyone's viewpoint.....just providing observations I've learned while not suffocating one single worm in an extremely educational couple of decades of study of this tool for a better way of doing things. Umm, your questions' responses: 1. what restrictive airflow? 2. the diff's in airflow quantities is immeasurable in worm bins with relation to vermicastings quality. 3. No, I am a guy WHO is appreciative of the qualities composting worms present to those of us WHO wanna do these things without chemicals. I can spray worm tea, or spread VC all over my property every day of the year without having to lock up the pets and children for a period of time, or make certain that chemical residues don't run off into the sewer systems and into the water supplies of the people in my neighborhood who probably neglect those warnings on all those insecticides and pesticides and fertilizers and chemical products that are, of course designed to cause the user of them to buy another of their chemical products to rectify the damage the previous chemo treatment wreaked upon their weed infestation or lawngrass shortcomings. You're "baited breath" tease lured me right into the "taking offense trap", huh? I had kinda forgotten the often tempestuous undercurrent of forum activity, which was my main reason for getting away from it before, so I'll return to my inactive status now. Keep worming! Chuckiebtoo

it will be an indoor bin. it can't be kept outdoor it will fry the worms it gets too hot outdoors not are their any shaded areas at my house. it's a wooden cooler. basically you take one of those large plastic white containers build a wooden frame around it and thats how it is. the wood and plastic are fused together with glue most likely it's a beer cooler novelty cooler it's not 2 seperate coolers to begin with it's both plastic and wooden. the frame is wooden the cooler is plastic. i will try to find a large nail and hammering it in hopefully this works i will try this tomorrow after school i need to make a new worm bin and a bigger one as well

I fully agree that clear storage bins are good for easy retrieval afterwards, but they kind of defeat the purpose of a bin which is to conceal the mess inside. Therefore, I still personally prefer opaque storage bins and labelling is all they need for easy locating later on. Furthermore, opaque bins means you can choose which colours or patterns you would like to have in order to match your other furniture in the room. This post was edited by EdwardThirlwall on Tue, Feb 4, 14 at 2:23