I did not like the white rubbermaid cans that came with mine. I purchased the actual REv a Shelf brand silver cans with lids online. The lids are hinged. I splurged too and got one silver lid and one green lid (for the recycle bin). You can find them on the rev a shelf website and then use the part numbers. I purchased mine from Kitchensource.com I believe. BUT, I WARN, they were RIDICULOUSLY expensive: I'm talking around $100 for the two cans + lids!! However, they do help a lot with the smell, although of course it is one more step to throw something away. The lids also help to keep the bags in the can.

If your hinges are Blum, you can purchase the Blumotion from Woodworker's Hardware site and attach them yourself right to the hinges for a fraction of the cost that the cabinet company will charge you. However, if you do NOT have Blum hinges, you can purchase soft closures that get screwed in to the top of your cabinets on the hinge side. That's what we did and it's my favorite thing in the kitchen. Love no slamming doors. They're inexpensive too, and if you purchase 20+, the per unit price is less. Hope this helps. Here is a link that might be useful: Blumotion for doors - soft close

I just don't see how it could possibly work. The way the foot pedal works is that the bungee is stretched out so always trying to relax. If it relaxes, the door opens. When closing the door, the bungee is stretched. The foot pedal magnet holds the bungee at a stretch when the door is closed. So, in order to close the door, you have to push it till the magnet catches. You have to follow through because if you let go before the magnet catches, the bungee will relax, thus opening the door. The soft close catches the drawer just before it closes and pulls the door the remaining inch or so till it shuts. It's pulling the drawer shut s-l-o-w-l-y. So what you would have is the soft close trying to pull the trash door shut while the bungee is trying to relax and open the door. Who's gonna win? My money is on the bungee. Because if you have soft close, you know that in the process of the drawer closing, you can always grab it and open it back up. The soft close is not going to fight you. As far as I can tell, ya gotta pick one or the other. My kitchen is now over 5.5 years old and has the soft close on all the drawers except the trash pull out where I have the pedal. I'm used to it. I don't think of my trash cabinet as the same as the other drawers. It's become second nature to me to just push it all the way shut, often times with my hip. You know, in the almost six years since the kitchen was completed, I don't think I've ever thought the trash was going to soft close, but I've many times thought there was a foot pedal on another drawer!! LOL.

Hi, I did the same thing you did - Schuler/Medallion 18" base cabinet and then ordered the Rev-a-Shelf pullout. I don't know the model number, but it's the one with the two pails with the pullout mechanism attached at the bottom of the door/cabinet. The pails sit in the bottom, they don't hang from the top, if I'm explaining it right. I love it! It even has a soft-close feature on it.