FLAT PACK FURNITURE.. and all that mallarkey!

ScumLord

God yer useless, flat packs are easy. I enjoy putting them together brings me back to me youth getting technic lego or model planes for Christmas. Until they made me give up making model planes cause I got addicted to making (the glue) them.

Terry

Terry wrote: »

Don't get me started on computers.

Listen, you little bastards. Stop clicking on those stupid ads for mobile ring tones and you will stop getting pop-ups on your ****ing computer.

"Hey, Terry. I downloaded this song. It's called dancemusic.exe. Now my computer won't work properly. What did I do wrong?"

I know what you mean, peoples greed and stupidity is enough to push one over the edge.

"It said I was the one millionth visitor and after I clicked to get my prize my computer stopped working properly." or "I was only downloading porn, you can't a virus doing that. Everyone does it and they don't get them."

Wacker

I bought a flat-pack TV table off Argos a few years ago, and had my brother not been visiting I think it is safe to saythat I literally would never have been able to assemble the feckin' thing. He pretty much did it for me. He's the technical one. In college he did engineering. I did philosophy and politics.

It's a slick table though, even if it no longer has a TV on it, since I upgraded to a projector.

paulksnn

Deleted User wrote: »

I know what you mean, peoples greed and stupidity is enough to push one over the edge.

"It said I was the one millionth visitor and after I clicked to get my prize my computer stopped working properly." or "I was only downloading porn, you can't a virus doing that. Everyone does it and they don't get them."

What's worse, wife's cousins tried to download free anti-virus stuff, which informed them they had 8,000 or so viruses and needed to pay for the fancy version which would fix it all.

As for flat packs - suck it up men. Follow the instructions, but use a bit of common sense.
As for your own tools, best investment I ever made was an allen key bit for my cordless drill.
3 minutes of twisting turns into 10 seconds of pressing a button.

Sleepy

Can't build a flat pack?

Off to the Ladies' Lounge wit ye.

Only think more fun than flatpack is building the stuff from scratch.

John Mason

phew - you know nothing nothing of pain, 6 hours is nothing

my shed came as a flat pack. 3,500 pieces, it took me 6 weeks to put together. i still have a bag of about hundred pieces, that i couldnt figure out where they went but i has been standing for the last year and a half. i am imensely proud of it.

bloody, sweat and tears went in to that thing

Popinjay

Pft! It's not called 'flat pack'. It's called Man Lego!

Flat pack can be fun!!! Put together a bunk bed a few years ago, look twice as long to do than expecterd because they forgot to drill out the holes in one of the posts :mad:
It mas manufactured by a company called THUKA (very appropiate name:) )

Cuddlesworth

To fail at assembling flatpack you need

-blond hair
-a complete inability to follow simple instructions
-the patience of a boards.ie moderator


And a gun to remove yourself from the genepool to save future generations.

foxy06

I am the flat pack queen! Long story but moved house 3 times in a year so had to build and dismantle a set of bunk beds 3 times and then when we got new carpet I had to dismantle them again because we couldn't get them out of them room.... could do it with my eyes closed now! Then bought a table and six chairs a few months ago and I had 5 chairs done and my dad had only managed one!!!

In saying that though my pc desk is getting wobbly but its 3 years old and was 60 euro in argos so what do you expect!

Forgot to add, I built a flat-pack house once.
Here is a photo of some of the panels. http://dolanbaker.info/SelfbuildDiaryphotos/cuttingpanels.html

Capt'n Midnight

seamus wrote: »

Never use the tools that you get with flat pack stuff. Use your own tools.

And throw away the glue too. Get some proper waterproof wood glue and a paint brush to put it on and the 'ol damp cloth to remove the excess. Real furniture is held together with glue. The screws and nails are just there to keep it under tension till the glue dries.

low density chipboard :rolleyes:

^^^ You're right there Capt'n, I made many a wobbly unit before I learned that!!

Faith

krazy_8s wrote: »

To fail at assembling flatpack you need

-blond hair
-a complete inability to follow simple instructions
-the patience of a boards.ie moderator


And a gun to remove yourself from the genepool to save future generations.

I have blonde hair, am a boards.ie moderator... Oh, and I'm female! Yet I kick ass at flat-pack . I made my whole flat* from Ikea flatpack in a day.

*Excluding the big parts like walls and floors .

ScumLord

Faith wrote: »

I have blonde hair, am a boards.ie moderator... Oh, and I'm female! Yet I kick ass at flat-pack . I made my whole flat* from Ikea flatpack in a day.

*Excluding the big parts like walls and floors .

Even the TV and fridge??

Cuddlesworth

Faith wrote: »

I have blonde hair, am a boards.ie moderator... Oh, and I'm female! Yet I kick ass at flat-pack . I made my whole flat* from Ikea flatpack in a day.

*Excluding the big parts like walls and floors .

Do the curtains match the drawers?