Architectural Louvers for Trash Enclosures

Trash enclosures are a necessity for businesses throughout the country. Especially if you’re operating within an urban or industrial environment, having protective screens to obscure dumpsters helps maintain a clean and visually acceptable outlook for your property. We covered this topic last August, but to recap with even more detail than before, enclosures with custom-fabricated architectural louvers:

• Lend a uniform aesthetic to your building. When designing a project, architects think both visually and structurally. Obviously, the building’s engineering must be reliable and accommodate time-tested safety standards. But the building envelope (the exterior walls, the roof, the windows, the doors, the foundation) must also have a visual identity. Exposed dumpsters pressed against street-level walls clash against exteriors and give your building a rough, disheveled appearance. Not to mention you might end up having dumpsters of a certain color (many of them are deep green) that does not complement the colors of your exterior walls.
  
  Trash enclosures, however, keep these essential yet visually unappealing items out of public view. And they do so without taking away from the infrastructure’s general appearance. When it comes to colors: PalmSHIELD provides customers a powder coating option. Simply tell us what color you want, and we will use state of the art equipment to paint your louvers (and the posts) so they blend seamlessly into the background.

• Avoid costly fines from local authorities. As a property owner, you know that local codes enforce certain requirements on infrastructure within their districts. Most communities, for instance, do not allow trash receptacles to be visible from the street. (Rooftop equipment is often required to be surrounded, protected, and hidden.) To achieve this, you need equipment screens that match your building envelope while, at the same time, permitting necessary airflow. PalmSHIELD’s architectural louvers are installed between posts and custom installed to keep desired items hidden.
• Keep out vandals, intruders, and wild animals. From a property owner’s perspective, another benefit of architectural louvered screens comes from the desire to only allow access to authorized personnel (employees, hired third parties, etc.). When you contact our sales staff, they’ll inquire about including gates, which feature our dependable Gorilla Hinges (not one of which has had a reported failure to date) and strong locks. You don’t want pranksters rummaging through your trash and leaving a mess that your staff will ultimately waste valuable work hours cleaning up. (Likewise for wild animals such as raccoons, feral cats, and bears.) And you certainly don’t want expensive mechanical equipment being damaged.

Those are the basic benefits of PalmSHIELD’s architectural louvered enclosures. Let’s now get into how these panels’ infill provides a superior trash enclosure option.

Architectural louvers provide airflow for trash enclosures

One of the disadvantages of solid architectural screening is that ventilation becomes virtually nonexistent. As such, receptacles contained within a solid-walled trash enclosure will remain enmeshed in trapped heat and odors. This can become a safety hazard for personnel when they access the enclosure and spend an extended period of time inside. The problem will become worse if your dumpsters are positioned in a corner or beneath an overhanging eave, wherein temperature will increase and air quality will become even more stifling.

So how does PalmSHIELD’s louvered screening solve this problem? Our design and fabrication teams build everything custom from the ground up, according to your needs and specifications. This means we can space apart the louvers to permit necessary airflow. At the same time, we will custom design the angle at which the louvers will be installed. As such, your dumpsters will remain hidden from view as appropriate airflow continues to move through the louvered infill.

Architectural louvers accommodate building structures of all kinds

PalmSHIELD offers more than the average contractor — custom manufacturing, powder coating color options, visually attractive louvers — because we recognize that trash enclosures are needed by property managers of all kinds. It’s not merely factories and industrial complexes that need to obscure dumpsters from public view. The same applies to storefronts, restaurants, and private companies.