Once those were attached, you bolted on some larger brackets – which is where you’d eventually attach the cabinet door. Made me wish I had tiny Kristen Wiig hands. This was easier said than done considering the nuts and screws were tiny and hard to hold in place.
#Basic onetrash slider install#
But the gist was that you had to install these two bracket “fins” to the sliding portion of the trash can tray. The installation of this was less straightforward – partly because the instructions were a bit vague. Next to the pull-out cabinet converter, I saw that Rev-A-Shelf also sold a Door Mounting Kit, which intrigued me because it meant that I could further make our old cabinet function like a newer one. With everything cleaned up, the can slid back into place, and even the vases put back – I could’ve called this project done… but I wasn’t satisfied. I was actively being sprayed with sawdust. It spewed sawdust everywhere, as you can sorta tell from my awesome iPhone pic. It was a fast cut to make, but sure was messy. I can plunge the blade into the wood at any point). I only need to notch out a 3″ deep by 8″ space for the can to slide into, so I broke out my Dremel Sawmax (here’s the one we have) to do my dirty work because it’s fairly small and good at plunge cuts (i.e. But at least having the track in place meant that I could mark the shelf with where I needed to cut (note the green tape). The entire conversion would’ve taken no more than ten minutes if I didn’t have my little half-shelf issue to deal with. Then I snapped the other pieces into place, which took very little time. So I followed the instructions, lined up the paper template in my shelf, drilled some pilot holes, and then screwed the two tracks into the floor of the cabinet. I knew I’d just have some wood cutting in my near future. That shelf doesn’t just slide in and out – it’s nailed in on all sides so it’s permanently built-in, as opposed to being removable or adjustable. The somewhat frustrating thing about this cabinet was that it wasn’t a natural fit for the system, thanks to this barely visible half-shelf (it’s in all of our lower cabinets, and it prevented the can from sitting all the way back).
They also sell a larger version with two cans, but we didn’t have a cabinet that would easily accommodate that configuration – and we figure one small can will encourage us to empty it more regularly (we have a plan for our recyclables too, but we still need to flesh that out). Rather than just jam a trash bin in there, we decided to purchase a product that many of you recommended in the comments on Tuesday – one of these Rev-A-Shelf pull-out containers.
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