Flat Pack Furniture

[Deleted member 1258]

Don't you just love it? This is better quality than most.
http://www.furnitureinfashion.net/compact-walnut-computer-trolley-p-4594.html
But a bit daunting when I first unpacked it and laid it out on the floor to check it was all there, including the small bits and pieces there's 109 pieces in the pack and the pictorial instructions run to 6 pages . I've got all the fittings fitted tonight and I'm going to build it up at the weekend.
So what are your stories about flat pack furniture encounters?

 

[slowmotion]

The only lessons that I have learned after assembling numerous IKEA offerings are these. (a) No, there are no parts missing on the daunting bag of fixings and fastenings and (b) if you think you are so blooming clever that you don't need to read the instructions, don't be surprised when you louse it up. I do (a) and (b) every time.

 

[Kies]

Another tip - buy a proper bottle of wood glue and use liberally

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

What do you give a man with 3 multitools and several sets of Allen keys, or hex keys, call them what you will? IKEA's answer is another key. We live in the real world, IKEA, real people already have the damn things, stop making us pay you to make and transport more of the things!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Another tip - buy a proper bottle of wood glue and use liberally

I used wood glue once and it stuck to the tories. Was I too liberal?

 

[inkd]

Another tip - buy a proper bottle of wood glue and use liberally

No more nails seems to do the trick, it did on the kids high sleepers (I wont be taking them down anytime soon).

 

[Globalti]

My brother once challeneged me to build an Ikea bedside table, blindfolded. It wasn't too hard as I was accustomed to the Ikea way of doing things.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

What do you give a man with 3 multitools and several sets of Allen keys, or hex keys, call them what you will? IKEA's answer is another key. We live in the real world, IKEA, real people already have the damn things, stop making us pay you to make and transport more of the things!

I've got a tool box full of the things

 

[vernon]

Don't you just love it? This is better quality than most.
http://www.furnitureinfashion.net/compact-walnut-computer-trolley-p-4594.html
But a bit daunting when I first unpacked it and laid it out on the floor to check it was all there, including the small bits and pieces there's 109 pieces in the pack and the pictorial instructions run to 6 pages . I've got all the fittings fitted tonight and I'm going to build it up at the weekend.
So what are your stories about flat pack furniture encounters?

Is your biggest hurdle literacy and numeracy? I'd have had it erected and computer kit in place and running by the time you'd finished deliberating about the 'immensity' of the task.

The stuff is a cinch to erect. My kids as teenagers all relished the assembly of IKEA stuff for their rooms.

You've got nowt to worry about.

 

[asterix]

The worst bit about IKEA furniture is having to visit the place to buy it.

Once we got stuck in traffic on some motorway in the midlands, huge tailback. The cause was cars queuing to get into the car park at a newly opened branch.

 

[Globalti]

No, the worst thing about Ikea is that almost everybody mispronounces it as "Eye-keeah" when it's actually "Ee-kayah".

The same people pronounce Iraq as "Eye-rack" and Ibiza as "Eye-beetha".

 

[asterix]

No, the worst thing about Ikea is that almost everybody mispronounces it as "Eye-keeah" when it's actually "Ee-kayah".

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Does it matter, if people understand what you mean? Lidl is pronounced Leedl in France (and Germany I'm told) so that is how i pronounce it. Until I am back in the UK when it is just Lidl again.

 

[sheddy]

I thought that most bikes came flat packed ?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Is your biggest hurdle literacy and numeracy? I'd have had it erected and computer kit in place and running by the time you'd finished deliberating about the 'immensity' of the task.

The stuff is a cinch to erect. My kids as teenagers all relished the assembly of IKEA stuff for their rooms.

You've got nowt to worry about.

Cheeky sod!, is this a wind up? Were you looking for a reaction? Well you got one, nothing wrong with my numeracy or literacy, cheeky barstard.

 

[vernon]