I hate those freakin things. In fact now i go to brokenhauses (häuser?) first. I might finally be done with ikea. much rather pay the delivery fee and have it DONE in my HOUSE and ASSEMBLED and save the assembly and packaging removal and pay a bit more.
good luck. now, how are you gonna get rid of the broken pieces? mine are still in my luftschutzkeller, doing their bit to protect the air i guess.
At least you had room to stand them up Mr Yards. Twice in the last year I've been asked how to fix the problem of 2.4 unit's that won't stand up as the ceilings are 2.36.
If your think Ikea instructions and kits are bad, check out the ones from Conforama The booklet is translated from the original Korean into English by an Afghan goat herder whose 3rd cousin went to Birmingham once, and who is off his trolley on his main cash crop. His brother is responsible for kitting and is equally stoned and works to the nearest +/- 5 of something that may resemble the acid trip sketch knocked up by his bro'
Ikea Tip: Never self assemble without a (charged) electric screwdriver. But I've never had any missing pieces in all the years I've bought stuff from Ikea. And, also being immensely masculine and having no friends, I've always constructed it myself. Well, that is until my son became old enough to do it for me.
Conforma (just across the road from Ikea in Pratteln), hire vans out for what seemed fairly reasonable rates when I was there a few weeks ago.
Of course, I don't need such things as I have a Volvo.
Look, I TOLD YOU, I DID assemble the damned thing myself, OK??? (beats own chest, gorilla-styleeee.) I tried to get my son to do it, but he was more interested in rolling all the screws around the floor and underneath immovable items.
Ikea also rent out vans ... it only cost me CHF 17.50 to get all the stuff back to my place. Plus three years off my life due to crushed vertebrae.
If you have an Ikea family card you can hire one of there vans for half price. I had on for a guy last week at sub CHF 90 for over 3 hours.
Also it's possible to hire vans by the hour from most Bau & Hobby stores for CHF 35 per hour.... if you don't have access to the Goose and his buggy (sorry Mr Yards but you didn't ask
Or the Swedish conspiracy as I like to call it. If you own a Volvo you will always have enough space for whatever you buy in Ikea. You will never be stuck wondering how to get something in.
The irritating thing is that lots of IKEA stuff that claims to need 2 people can be done single handed. I managed to successfully construct a number of Ikea objects claiming the need for 2 people single handed, unfortunately Pax really does need two people (thankfully the damage from my botched attempt did not prevent it from being constructed on the second attempt with help). Having put it up, I reckon it could be done single handed, but would require a different approach to that outlined in the instructions, and I have neither the need of another Pax, nor the confidence to test my theory.
My 16 year old daughter can take any Ikea instructions and slap that stuff together time after time without mistakes and in rapid order. I'm just sayin............. .
Hey guys - look what I've found. More PAX wardrobes for 22 yards . Shall I have them sent round to him? Now he's got the expertise he might as well stay in practice.
So is this the wrong time to confess that I bought a Pax wardrobe, got all the pieces in my van on my own, drove home, unloaded all the pieces and then, had to ask someone for help to assemble it. Totally humiliating.
I've put together many, many Ikea items, almost always with a tiny little girl 'helping'. Keep in mind the saying, "The wind does not break a tree that bends" . If I can get her sorting out all the bits into piles she feels quite important handing over the pieces as things go together. She gets to check dad's work with the little allen wrench too... I'm secretly turning her into a machinist- but mom can't know!
And the magic Volvo has spent a week or more at times with flat packs riding around. Why do they have to mark the weight on the box?! 36kg shouldn't be that big a deal up to the second floor... but somehow it's easier to carry a heavy thing of indeterminate weight than one clearly marked in code "you're a wuss if you don't get me upstairs and assembled tonight"
By my reckoning, you just extended your life by about five nights. That doesn't include the drive back to Ikea (as noted by adrianlondon) to replace the missing/lost/broken bits (for which, by the way, Ikea now charges Rp20 per piece).