Unfortunately I have the same experience, as apparently many of my outpost: The Achilles heel of the bucket is the approach of the foot pedal. The pedal is a thin, barely reinforced injection-molded part from Platik. Actually a smooth faulty construction, since the thin bottom struts of the pedal force have hardly oppose something. With us, the passage has kept about 2 years. If the broken part you look at me, you wonder that there has ever been through so long. :-)
Otherwise the bucket is high quality and chic, good is just nothing when it's broken ...
