Slim-line kitchen bin?

IM

Evening all.

Your challenge - should you choose to accept it - is to find me a kichen bin, which will fit into the only space I have available for it.

I need a flip-top bin no wider than 23cm, but the narrowest one I've been able to find is 26cm - which would only get bashed ever time anyone opens the door...

The one we have at the moment was a complete waste of money. It's a plastic job, and the lid/pedal mechanism is impossible to operate, with the result that you've got to lift the lid with your hand every time.

Any suggestions??

Counting_Pennies_2

Brabantia always did a slimline bin. I bought mine, can't remember the dimensions, but it was 20 litres. Slimline and pedal lift, although I think they concentrate on the press down lid which would be my option if I bought again.

Rikki

I have a bin that fixes inside the kitchen cupboard. I prefere this as it out of site and it uses carrier bags.

Doozergirl

Is it possible to love a bin? We got a Brabantia touch lid bin as a wedding present and it is just the best thing ever. Unfortunately, having checked their website (this is how much I want to spread the Brabantia feeling!) my bin is 27cm. Even the 'slimline' pedal bin is 25cm, sorry

Expensive as bins go, I suppose, but the press down lid thing is genius! :T Pedal bins break so quickly but ours is like new after nearly 2 years.

IM

Just checked the Brabantia website and that 20 litre slimline one is still too big.

And if we had enough spare cupboard space for a hidden bin, I wouldn't be looking for a wendy house bin in the first place....

skintchick

My pedal bin from Brabantia is seven years old and hasn't broken. Don;t fancy a press down lid myself. But no idea where you can get a thin one I'm afraid. Perhaps you need to think laterally and just look for storage items that woud fit the space, rather then just looking at bins?

Counting_Pennies_2

IM wrote:

Just checked the Brabantia website and that 20 litre slimline one is still too big.

We don't have a space in our kitchen, our bin is actually at the back door, so everytime I go out of the door I just move the bin. Not too much hassle, and when there isn't anywhere else in the room for a bin, a door is as good as any.

Do you have a back door it could go by?

scheming_gypsy

mine is in a similar place to counting pennies' bin, but on the other side of the back door. I can't stand having a stinking bin in the kitchen so it stays outside. Smells nicer, out of the way and i don't trip over it.

innovate

Have a look on the Haefele website - they do all sorts of bins, and there's one which is just 218mm wide - but it wants to live in a kitchen unit.......

The biggest snag is, however, they only supply to trade! If you find something suitable and don't know anyone who could buy from them, I can recommend a guy who sells their stuff on ebay and from whom I have bought before.

vansboy

Rikki is 1/2 way there, Gypsy a bit closer - don't bother with one!!

Why on earth do you want to store ANY trash in the house??

Let alone the kitchen!!!????

Some newspaer, while preparing food, for the waste you create, a carrier bag, if you MUSThave something on the go. Then into the ouside bin/compost heap as soon as pos!!

VB

scheming_gypsy

That's how i do it, but up in Preston they don't have wheely bins yet and i don't have a normal dustbin so I just leave the kitchen bin outside with a bin liner in that.