Flat Pack Furniture is the Spawn of Satan...Arghhhhh!

[Eve]

I'm usually a very patient person but since buying a flat pack filing cabinet I have learned soo many new swear words my mother would be ashamed :)

Would the screws screw in with a screw driver? NO!

Would the screws screw in with daddy's power drill...NO!

Did my cunning plan in trying to enlist the help of the man next door work....NO!

(he is apparantly about as crap at building it as I am lol :))

Did the cheapo "no nails" glue I bought as a desperate last ditch attempt work....NO!

Did just trying to make it all fit together and hope try and work...erm kinda...

Is it all up and finished....is it hell.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[eash]

I'll come and help you Jen, give me a few hours to get there!
Perhaps you should have cracked open the Port before you started to attempt to put it together lol

[Eve]

Lol :) Apart from the flat pack fiasco has been an ok day, been having a mad sorting and shopping and cleaning and tidying spree and having a quick rest with a sleep cat curled up on my feet :)

[bensmum]

I'm quite good at putting things together but I'm too far away to be of much help :-(

[Eve]

That would have been a good idea eash though might be cracking it open now because of it :) I definitely need help :)

Wanted it all finished so it was tidied and away (and my life organised in it) so I cold properly hoover up the living room before my mum comes up tomorrow.

What is it about mum's coming to stay that make me going into a mad cleaning tidying paranoia lol!

[Barmaid]

Completely agree. I have never had anything but trouble with flat pack furniture.

I do have a solution for you though. Shut the door on said piece of furniture, pour yourself a nice cool glass of wine, put ya feet up and chill!!!! (Works for me!)

I lost my rag completely with one bit from Ikea and whacked it with a hammer - splitting the top bit of wood. I still took it back and told them it was crap!

[Eve]

Aww bless ya both :)

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it as there are some screws part in which won't go all the way in but I can't get back out.

Should have known better than to try it manually with my arthritis but the power drill didn't help much either.

I am definitely paying more to get ti ready build next time :)

[Eve]

Don't blame you barmaid :)

It'c cheap Argos crappy stuff which was just a bad idea from the word go really.

I might just buy a big hammer and bash nails in all over it and hope it stays together :)

[Totterdown]

I've not yet bought any flat pack thing that has gone exactly to the instructions. There are usually a few holes left and a few screws that do not fit the holes or bits that are missing. Instructions are useless. Come to that, anything I buy I can never understand the instructions - CD player, mobile phone, etc. Half the instructions are worded as if we already know the basic set up. They seem to start at stage 2. Back to the flat pack stuff, nothing has yet actually collapsed on me but that is only because I put screws and glue everywhere to make sure ending up with blistered fingers through trying to twist the screwdriver and superglued fingers through not being careful enough. I always swear never to bother again, but of course these things are cheap.

[jg96]

I once had to put a chest of drawers together with the instructions missing could not really take it back had it around 6 months. Patience really stretched but a few cups of tea and fags later it all came together. My God was I proud of myself.

[Barmaid]

ooooooh! Go with the big hammer thing. Think of the fun you will have bashing it!

I just whacked a nail into my wall to put up my Christmas decorations. Very therapeutic, hammers. Although it fekkin hurt when I dropped it and just caught my toe on its way down.

[cab]

This is not funny, but I am in stitches at your post jenna, I can see myself in exactly the same position as you in the past.xx

[flobadob]

I've got a few things like that from Argos and I find them to be ok, so long as once you've built them, put them in a corner and don't open the doors and they give no bother.

The stuff Lidl do is usually quite good as it's usually made from real wood as opposed to the chipboard Argos use. But of course with Lidl its all about the timing.

[eash]

That reminds me I once bought a CD storage flat pack thing and I got so frustrated with trying to put it together I ended up calling my brother to get him to come round and fix it up. Turns out I'd screwed totally the wrong sides together! lol

[eash]

And the wrong way up I might add! lol

[funnygirl]

Hi Jenna, I hope it is not an Ikea flat pack as I am hoping to buy a book case tomorrow.

The crunch is Mr Funny has got to put it together and I'm dreading it as he will end up in a very very bad mood and say to me,
"Why the f*ck you wanted to buy this!!!"

[Eve]

Lol :)

I wanted to get some exercise equipment after Christmas (have my brother's wedding as a diet incentive) but it all comes flatpack and I am having a serious rethink!

Never tried Ikea (it's Argos), had the ex when we got the latest stuff so he had all the fun of putting it together.

I have decided enough is enough for this evening and am now curled up in a throw fresh from the tumble dryer and waiting for a takeaway to be delivered :)

[eash]

With a glass of port too I'm guessing ;-)

[Eve]

Yep, port and lemonade on standby :)

[Rosetta]

For gawds sake, bin it. It isn't worth the agro.