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Drewxcore
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Has anyone ever had any annoying dealings with them?
Ive just put together my third 7ft cabinet for my dvds and admiring my skill :giggle: although i do remember my bedside table taking me 8 hours to put together!
So has anyone had any bad experiances with flat packs?
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Piece of piss biggrin
Just make sure you have all the pieces then throw away the instructions confused
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Quote by Sassy-Seren
Piece of piss biggrin
Just make sure you have all the pieces then throw away the instructions confused

Best bit is when you stand there admiring your workmanship only to see a piece is the wrong way around! redface
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And don't bother checking you have all the parts first - wait till it's nearly finished, and you have damaged the box so much that it can't be repackaged even if you could get it all undone, which you can't since you had to use your shoe as a hammer and have made a heel-shaped dinge in the wood confused
Drewxcore
Sex God
The reason my flt pack chest of drawers took so long was something to do with the fact id finished it, looked at it and said *oh fuck its upside down* so i had to take it apart!
northeastcoupleuk
Sex God
got one of them flat packed metal sheds ffs opened box and sat looking at it for half a hour ,justt wish i had a pound for every bit in it ,it now has become a bit of a joke in the ne chat room, its up the roof on just need the doors on. lol
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Quote by northeastcoupleuk
got one of them flat packed metal sheds ffs opened box and sat looking at it for half a hour ,justt wish i had a pound for every bit in it ,it now has become a bit of a joke in the ne chat room, its up the roof on just need the doors on. lol

thats just cos you thick as fook t bolt
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I find flat pack furniture very easy to assemble. You just have to be methodical.
Count yourself lucky Drew, I have got odd spaced concrete posts that support my back gate. It needs replacing and I am going to have to make a new one, as I refuse to pay anyone else way over the odds when I can do it myself.
blueandpink
Sex God
I never have any problems with flat packs, I just hand instructions and a cup of tea to Blue.....hey presto finished 1 hour later wink
pink x
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Here are my rules for flat-pack. I often finish in good time and don't have any trouble.
1/ place the destruction manual to one side
2/ remove items from packaging
3/ study items for 10 mins and assemble in your head
4/ only use the desstruction maual diagrams to assist in step 3
5/ start assembly
6/ if it looks right it is right
7/ if it looks wrong it is wrong
8/ if you have bits left over they are spares lol
9/ Admire your craftmanship and that of the chipboard and mdf master cutters :lol:
10/ Have a brew
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Have had many an annoying few hours with flat pack furniture. But what is even more annoying is the fact that none of it ever stays assembled for very long. The fronts of drawers come off, the doors fall off,in fact any joins I'm sure are designed to lull you into a false sense of security. Just when you thought you had it sussed it comes apart in your hands. Now I only buy ready assembled. May cost more but at least it stays together
Steve
Sex God
We have a fair bit of flat pack stuff from Ikea and I have to say its all good quality.....
Nothing has fallen apart (yet) ....
fem_4_taboo
Sex God
Quote by Drewxcore
The reason my flt pack chest of drawers took so long was something to do with the fact id finished it, looked at it and said *oh fuck its upside down* so i had to take it apart!

you could have saved time and just turned it the right way up ?? :smile2:
lol
worst experience ive had is making my new wardrobe in the front room and then realising it wouldnt go through the door.
i do get a great sence of achievement if i make flat pack stuff, youd think i crafted the thing from scratch from a tree lol
xxx fem xx
mr__powers1
Sex God
Quote by Drewxcore
The reason my flt pack chest of drawers took so long was something to do with the fact id finished it, looked at it and said *oh fuck its upside down* so i had to take it apart!

turning it up the right way would have been quicker! lol
edit..bollocks...reminder to always the rest of the posts first!
Freckledbird
Sex God
Quote by buckingfabe
Now I only buy ready assembled. May cost more but at least it stays together

Absolutely.
Failing that, Mr FB is very good at making furniture - he built fitted wardrobes into our old house and made units for the telly and stuff - he's very good with his hands biggrin :twisted:
sword_stileto
Orgasminator
We just love flat pack furniture :cry:
We brought a put it together yourself bed & it broke in about 6 months :fuckinghell:
So we took it back & they replaced it with a newer better put it together yourself bed & that broke in 2 months banghead
So we got our money back & bought a Divan :thumbup: if this one breaks its a hammock next :giggle:
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Quote by goose35
Here are my rules for flat-pack. I often finish in good time and don't have any trouble.
1/ place the destruction manual to one side
2/ remove items from packaging
3/ study items for 10 mins and assemble in your head
4/ only use the desstruction maual diagrams to assist in step 3
5/ start assembly
6/ if it looks right it is right
7/ if it looks wrong it is wrong
8/ if you have bits left over they are spares lol
9/ Admire your craftmanship and that of the chipboard and mdf master cutters :lol:
10/ Have a brew
11/ watch it fall apart as you put your brew on it

:giggle:
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Quote by Ukwineman
Here are my rules for flat-pack. I often finish in good time and don't have any trouble.
1/ place the destruction manual to one side
2/ remove items from packaging
3/ study items for 10 mins and assemble in your head
4/ only use the desstruction maual diagrams to assist in step 3
5/ start assembly
6/ if it looks right it is right
7/ if it looks wrong it is wrong
8/ if you have bits left over they are spares lol
9/ Admire your craftmanship and that of the chipboard and mdf master cutters :lol:
10/ Have a brew
11/ watch it fall apart as you put your brew on it

:giggle:
It hasnt happened yet :lol:
Its a family trait off the males to dissmantle stuff to see how its put together so we have the eye for such things :lol:
miss_confused
Orgasminator
Same here
Now I only buy ready assembled. May cost more but at least it stays together
or get someone in to do it for me wink :wink:
Drewxcore
Sex God
Well today i get the excitment of putting the remainder of my dvd collection on my new unit....from the letter *T* onwards....should be quite a few dvds biggrin IT'll take me all day, im quite sad you see...
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Quote by Mallock2006
We have a fair bit of flat pack stuff from Ikea and I have to say its all good quality.....
Nothing has fallen apart (yet) ....

Cant beat Ikea flat pack :thumbup:
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My bedroom furniture is Argos flat pack and it's so solid and heavy I had to practically dismantle one wardrobe to move it to my son's room when I was decorating confused
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Quote by Shireen
We have a fair bit of flat pack stuff from Ikea and I have to say its all good quality.....
Nothing has fallen apart (yet) ....

Cant beat Ikea flat pack :thumbup:
Have to agree. I bought a solid beech dining table from there and had rather a lot of fun confused trying to get it in the car. It weighed 58lbs! Anyway it's as solid as solid can be.
The bad news is I mangaged to find the new(ish) one very near to me in Milton Keynes and now even have an Ikea card! lol
Drewxcore
Sex God
ohhhh i LOVE walking round ikea for hours, used to do that with my sister all the time. I love that place!
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a bit of an embarrassing story.
18 months ago I bought a brand new bed and bedroom furniture. got rid of our old bed, then dismantled the old built in wardrobes. thats where the trouble started.
all the walls needed re-plastering, new floor boards needed plus the ceiling needed doing , all this out of sight behind old cupboards.
so i got a long clothes rail for some where to temporary hang the clothes, assembled the bed and drawers, and waited for an agreeable time to get a plasterer in.
yeps, you guessed it, 18 months down the line, cupboards are still flatpacked, still using the clothes rail and walls and floor still needs doing redface
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Quote by Jaq__kryps
a bit of an embarrassing story.
18 months ago I bought a brand new bed and bedroom furniture. got rid of our old bed, then dismantled the old built in wardrobes. thats where the trouble started.
all the walls needed re-plastering, new floor boards needed plus the ceiling needed doing , all this out of sight behind old cupboards.
so i got a long clothes rail for some where to temporary hang the clothes, assembled the bed and drawers, and waited for an agreeable time to get a plasterer in.
yeps, you guessed it, 18 months down the line, cupboards are still flatpacked, still using the clothes rail and walls and floor still needs doing redface

Sounds like someone I know who bought a new kitchen and didn't do anything with it for a year confused Isn't that right, Dai? rolleyes
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Quote by Drewxcore
Well today i get the excitment of putting the remainder of my dvd collection on my new unit....from the letter *T* onwards....should be quite a few dvds biggrin IT'll take me all day, im quite sad you see...

You're quiet Drew. Is it cos you're picking all your dvd's off the floor where they fell when the unit fell apart? bolt
Drewxcore
Sex God
Quote by buckingfabe
Well today i get the excitment of putting the remainder of my dvd collection on my new unit....from the letter *T* onwards....should be quite a few dvds biggrin IT'll take me all day, im quite sad you see...

You're quiet Drew. Is it cos you're picking all your dvd's off the floor where they fell when the unit fell apart? bolt
lol no, i cant be arsed to sort the dvds, theres so many of them and since they MUST be aplhabitised it'll take me a good hour! So i cannot be fagged.... Instead ive spent every moment since 8am watching old episodes of neighbours and preparing a poster for college....sitting wearing JUST a tshirt cutting up bits of paper with huge scissors on my lap.....apparently thats not such a good idea :shock: