Oh my gosh, I'm seeing a theme here among us junkers. Yes Boxcar Children. We used to play "boxcar children". (do kids do that kind of play anymore?) And Pippi - I love her. I've never read "We always lived in a mansion" but I'll get be sure to now. Shipping Containers: Apparently we import so much from China and send so little back that the containers are piling up here in the USA. Its cheaper to make new ones than to send back empty ones! I want one. GARDEN SHED! Yes! I was so disappointed when I found out that the high rise trailers were a set for a play and not "real". (Though what an amazing set! Thanks Luna for the link.) I remember Susiewantsroses saying saying that she wanted to vacation there. Kathy

On our Panama Canal cruise last year on a Celebrity ship, you could not walk into any dining area without sanitizing. There were machines at every door and if you walked past one, a porter would hold out a giant squirt bottle of the stuff. A serious Novovirus outbreak typically results in the ship being emptied, and the cruise cancelled or on hold while the ship is scrubbed top to bottom. Shigellosis is another outbreak that will clear an entire ship. Nasty stuff, I was deathly ill back in 1979 after a trip to Mexico City (a private land tour) where I picked up Shigella. I was hospitalized for a week and out of work for several months. Jodi-

There are some pictures and instructions from MeToo2 in the Home Galleries. Here are the links to those pictures: From the "Pull Out Trash" thread started by ColdTropics on Fri, Jul 20, 07 at 2:43 Posted by metoo2 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 15, 07 at 19:27 Front View when cabinet is shut: http://photos.gardenweb.com/home/galleries/2007/08/pull_out_trash_foot_pedal_fron.html?cat=kitchens View of foot pedal when cabinet is open. Keep in mind this view will be hidden when trash cans are in the cabinet: http://photos.gardenweb.com/home/galleries/2007/08/pull_out_trash_foot_pedal_door.html?cat=kitchens Metal plate mounted on bottom back of door. This is the plate that is 3.5" tall--to deal with a face framed cabinet: http://photos.gardenweb.com/home/galleries/2007/08/pull_out_trash_foot_pedal_meta.html?cat=kitchens Finally, looking at the bottom of the cabinet. Glued a scrap of wood to the back of the face frame. http://photos.gardenweb.com/home/galleries/2007/08/pull_out_trash_foot_pedal_unde.html?cat=kitchens Posted by metoo2 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 15, 07 at 20:01 muscat: The rails are always attached to the door-regardless of whether your trash cans hang from a rail, or your trash cans sit on a base. In your picture, the cans sit on a base. I believe that my modifications will also work with your situation (cans sitting on a base). However, you will need to make one minor modification that I did not do. That modification has to do with the elastic cords that come with the pedal. Elastic cords (ie, bungee cords) pull the door open when the pedal is kicked. You would have to alter where the front of the cords are mounted inside the cabinet. Very easy to do. Earlier posts on this thread refer to a version of the Hele pedal for trash cans which sit on a base. I have not seen this product. I suspect they use the identical pedal, but altered the instructions relative to the location where to mount the elastic cords. Posted by lowspark (My Page) on Fri, Jul 20, 07 at 11:02 I'm not sure what the door mount kit is, but you have to have a pull out trash in order for the foot pedal to work. In other words, your trash bins should be hanging from a rail attached to the door OR sitting on a shelf attached to the door. The door should pull open like a drawer (not swing open like a normal cab) and as it pulls open the trash bins come out with it. Note that Häfele makes two different pedals, one for the bins hanging from rails and one for the bins sitting on the shelf. I'm not clear on which one you've linked to above. Also note that these foot pedals are designed for frameless cabs. I don't know if they can or have been used on framed cabs and would be interested to hear about that if anyone has. Here are the links I have to the two kinds of Häfele pedals: Pedal for trash can which hangs from rails Pedal for trash can which sits on base Note: In both cases, the foot pedals are toward the bottom of the page

Sorry to bump this after so much time. Here's a picture of the trash compactor. This is the pull out trash/recycling system that I want. http://www.pullsdirect.com/rev-a-shelf-5349-2150dm-2-5349-series-double-50-quart-pull-out-waste-container-with-soft-close-slides/p1573591. It says that it fits in a 15 inch width cabinet. It took me this long to contact a few custom cabinet makers in my area. 2 of them have told me that to replace the trash compactor with the double pull out trash/recycling that I want, I would need to not only have a cabinet door/face, but also they'd need to create a cabinet box and a frame too. However, by doing this, the width of the side of the cabinet box would mean that they wouldn't be able to put in the pull-out that I want, which needs a width of 14.8 inches (the trash compactor is 15 inches), so I'd need to select a different one, which would have a much smaller bin size. The one I want has 2 50 quart bins, and I would have to go down to 2 27 quart bins, I think, to get it to fit, which is a big difference. I'm also talking to a third custom cabinet guy who said that there might be a way to be able to put in a "floor" to where the trash compactor was, so he could install the double pull out I want (which is bottom mounted, not side mounted) without any sides, and then put some type of frame at the top only, so something that the cabinet door could rest against while closed, but said he'd have to think about how to create it, and get back to me. I'm waiting to hear from him to see if he's thought of something that would work. In addition, the price estimates I've gotten so far were substantially higher than I was expecting. Alison, I'd love to know the details of how you and your dh did this. Did you add a whole cabinet box? If not, what did you mount your pullout to, and what does your door rest against? I would appreciate any ideas. Thanks! Here is a link that might be useful: rev-a-shelf double pull out