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Old May 17th, 2008, 02:03 PM   #1 (permalink)
Gareth John
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: England
Age: 23
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I HATE flat pack furniture!

Just finished bolting together a chest of drawers, took 2 hours before I had any draws in. This is probably why I don't build my own guitars. I've built my bed, my desk, a book case, a dvd cabinet all from flat pack and I HATE it!
I arranged all the screws into types etc, but the instructions were so bad, some parts not labelled and half drawn diagrams (printing errors)

Don't even think about using common sense because there's no place for it in the world of flat pack! my legs have gone dead from kneeling on the floor whilst trying to get this thing together. Now that it's up, the drawers don't even sit flush because bits are cut wrong. £120? that's alot of money. I might as well have bought a book and some tools and cut the wood myself.

One of the worst things about flat pack is that little screw and belt to attach it to the wall so that you don't pull it over when you try to operate the drawers.

I feel better for that now but it's still robbed me of a day off.

Edit: Spelling mistakes caused by RAGE
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