Toe pulls for lower cabs?

15 years ago

I've been through three different searches, so forgive me if this has been handled before....

My new kitchen cabinets include pull-outs for the trash on one side of the sink and for recycling on the other. Our pulls are back-ordered so we are using all the cabinets by grabbing the edges, and I have noticed that I can hook my shoe under the trash pull-out door to use it, but the larger recycling one is harder to move. Since I'm a messy cook, I like the idea of using my toe to open these pull-outs....

Surely there is a piece of hardware that can attach to an overlay door in an unobtrusive way so that someone could open a pull-out with one's toe?

Anybody have one?

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rmkitchen
15 years ago
Do you mean a foot pedal? We have one on our trash / recycling bin and LOVE it. One thing we absolutely know we did right!
cindaintx
Original Author
15 years ago
That's the idea, but for already-installed "why didn't my cabinet-maker think of that" situations.
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palimpsest
15 years ago
Hafele makes a foot pedal for this purpose. They say it only works with their pullout, but it appears that it would work on any pullout similar to theirs. The feedback on sites where people have purchased this is very mixed. They either love it and say once they got it installed it was great or Hate it, saying they couldn't get it installed correctly and couldn't get it to work. You usually can't return Hafele.
(I couldn't even when they admitted I was sent the wrong finish for cabinet hardware--I would have had to pay a restocking fee even though it was their mistake.)
rmkitchen
15 years ago
No -- you CAN install it after-the-fact. Wait -- are your trash / recycle pull-outs or does the door swing open and then you can access the trash and recycle? This is our pull-out trash:

So for a pull-out the foot pedal will work, even after-market.