Is IKEA stuff made to be disassembled repeatedly?
i ve split and moved my bed at least 10 times. Everything else has been disassembled at least twice moving.
IKEA launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay
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#12IKEA furniture quality has dropped severely in recent years. Even their solid wood pine furniture has dropped in quality. You can find better quality furniture at Walmart these days.
IKEA was never top quality, but used to be good enough for the price. But prices have gone up and quality down to the point it's no longer worth it.
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#13I can't read the article because it's paywalled but I have a feeling this is more about competing with Facebook marketplace. eBay is for cross-country selling, which is very expensive to do for furniture with all shipping cost and trouble of trying to pack things within a box. However on Facebook you have dozens of people ready to go pick it up at your home, no disabling needed.
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#14IKEA furniture quality has dropped severely in recent years. Even their solid wood pine furniture has dropped in quality. You can find better quality furniture at Walmart these days. IKEA was never top quality, but used to be good enough for the price. But prices have gone up and quality down to the point it's no longer worth it.
The problem with most IKEA furniture is that it's just not meant to last or be disassembled and reassembled for resale, otherwise it just falls apart. It fits with the disposable lifestyle of young urbanites who move in the big cities rentals and want to buy modern looking furniture on the cheap.
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There’s evolutionary pressure here. IKEA quality ranges from cardboard to excellent and the stuff that self destructs won’t be resold
What is an example of an item you consider excellent?
Not OP but I have some Kallax book cases (3x4 arrangement) that are 4-5 years old. We moved house 3 years ago and they’re still going strong.
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#16Is IKEA stuff made to be disassembled repeatedly?
I never had a problem disassembling, moving and reassembling even their cheapest pieces of furniture. I think their reputation for falling apart comes from trying to move them fully assembled.
Last week I had to move a 3 door kleppstad from one room to another, and I think I made a good decision to take off the doors to reduce the weight as much as possible without fully taking it apart. But if this piece of furniture needs to move any further then I'm fully disassembling it. I would rather not risk taking it down the stairs fully assembled.
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#17Is IKEA stuff made to be disassembled repeatedly?
I assume so, because I've done it (repeatedly) and there's never any glue involved. The Billy book cases used nails for the back board, but it's easy to get those out by tapping the board from the front.
> easy to get those out by tapping the board from the front.
Or just pushing something to the back of a shelf in my experience. Billy's biggest fault I think.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s evolutionary pressure here. IKEA quality ranges from cardboard to excellent and the stuff that self destructs won’t be resold
What is an example of an item you consider excellent?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s evolutionary pressure here. IKEA quality ranges from cardboard to excellent and the stuff that self destructs won’t be resold
What is an example of an item you consider excellent?
Don't remember the product names, sorry for that, but this story happened probably 8 if not more years ago:
I was looking for a new work desk, planning to spend no more than 500 PLN - because IKEA is cheap... All desks within that price were wobbly pieces of glue and wood dust; then I found one for I believe 1500 PLN, 3x my intended budget, but imagine that: actual full metal frame! I could sit on it and it didn't even squeak, much less wobble. So I got it...Really love that desk, no problems with it over the years.
So yeah, they have cheap temporary stuff, but usually also have at least a couple of higher-end pieces per category... with accordingly higher prices.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s evolutionary pressure here. IKEA quality ranges from cardboard to excellent and the stuff that self destructs won’t be resold
What is an example of an item you consider excellent?
We have a modular sofa system that has moved with us two times already and there are no connector or stability issues at all. Same for a large dining table and various bed frames.
Everything that has metal connectors with fasteners on both sides still works well on 2nd or 3rd assembly in my experience.