Feckin Flat Pack!!!

[walshy]

Grrrrrr!!
I'm stuck at home with our new table and chairs which my ma and pa have bought me and Minxy as a pressie.... Thing is I have to build it. Now I can do most things round the house, but this thing has got me stumped big time LOL
Loads of different screws and things and the manual is no help what so ever.

Any tips from you flat pack jedi's out there?????

Help..... she's back sunday night expecting a tip top table and chair type thing.
Ta V Much Hand Andy NOT LOLOL

[silocybe]

If you cant figure out where all the screws go , just get a hammer and some nails , barring that get an uncle or a dad on the job as they're always keen to show you they've still got it in em ! Try to look interested in what they are doing or else they"ll know your takin the piss

[Daz wilde]

Flat packs absolute nightmare! - Half the time theres either too many screws or too less! - And sometimes part of the fittings are together when on the instructions its tells you too build em!

[walshy]

Hear what you are saying mate... had to go to the shop for some super glue cos I have cabaged a screw or two LOL... Why can I re-build a house but not do a table and chairs?????? It must be a conspiricy and not the fact that I'm tired and want to have a beer and chill when it's done eh..

[mad matty]

call me sad but i love building flat pack stuff - always end up racing with me missuss or tell her i can do this wardrobe in 20minutes then she challenges me!!!! hehehehehe

[blue jammer]

I've bought a wardrobe and have unpacked it, that's as far as I've got with it lol

It's been moved upstairs now into the room it's gonna get built in (whenever that happens eh?)

[nics]

oh my word!! what a thing to be doin on a friday night!!

My best advice on the flat pack score is................................................ ...

GET SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO IT!!!

i rek youve got more chance of winning the Krypton Factor than completing that table n chairs!!

but then again, how hard can it be building a table.........its only got 4 legs!!

my theory is, if you use all the screws, the thing will fall down!!

if youve got a bag full of screws left, youve cracked it, table n chairs for life!!!

i had a chest of draws and used all the screws and the fekker fell down after a few months, but since ive had a full bedroom suite and never used all the screws and the bugger is still standing after 2 years

[ste huxley]

lol thats like me when I got some extra record storage a few years ago for my birthday, I had that flat pack for 6 months til I built it Meanwhile records everywhere you get the picture

Did you manage to build it Walshy? Nics good idea about the nuts n screws left, always a good sign lol

Originally Posted by blue jammer

I've bought a wardrobe and have unpacked it, that's as far as I've got with it lol

It's been moved upstairs now into the room it's gonna get built in (whenever that happens eh?)

[blue jammer]

I may build it tomorrow when I get in from hazy, as it'll then resemble the most interesting wardrobe ever made

What does my head in with these flat pack things is the instructions are often written by spastics, so you've no chance of following it properly and the images they show don't look owt like what you have!

The major thing though is when you've got 1 or 2 dowels too short and they're just not there!!!! This happened when I bought two shelving units to house my DVD collection, and the first unit was 2 bits short, the second one I opened had the 2 extra bits in!! - now what are the chances of that happening, as in someone buying 2 units, and one having 2 less bits and the other having those 2 extra bits

That day, I had a wank about that, and also put the lottery on, as I thought my luck was in.

Didn't win owt though....