Screw-It-Up Yourself
Posted: Thu 23 February, 2006 Filed under: Domestic 1 Comment »Now here’s a worrying development…
Last night we put together four IKEA bookcases, plus a corner unit. For the slow, that’s five units altogether. And it took roughly two hours.
What’s more worrying is that everything went together first time, there were no problems, and not one swear word was used. In the annals of self-assembly, particularly in combination with my well-known DIY “skillz”, this is definitely noteworthy.
What’s more noteworthy is that only a complete cunt could fail to understand the instructions provided there’s a good reason that they use pictures. I freely admit that Ikea have a nasty habit of underproviding the odd vital component, be it a screw, a ridiculous, proprietary-sized nut or bolt or in my last experience, the other half of the sodding unit, but in terms of ease of construction I reckon they’re a modern marvel of engineering.
For me, the worst thing about ikea is the fact that they’re now over an hour’s drive from me, their customer service stinks with the same ‘get what you pay for’ attitude so brilliantly championed by those other doyens of unacuntability (sic), Ryanair and the fact that they still owe me forty quid for delivering some stuff over two months later than scheduled.