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You can just go to any IKEA and buy a replacement part? Every single part they've ever sold is available at the replacement desk in their stores (at least here
by kuschku 6y ago
You can just go to any IKEA and buy a replacement part? Every single part they've ever sold is available at the replacement desk in their stores (at least here in Germany). Even individual screws, legs, etc. When I broke a door and one of the hinges of a kitchen cabinet, I just went to IKEA and bought a replacement door (of the exact same type) and replacement hinge) and replaced them.
- codebolt 6y agoYou can also search for the serial number on eBay and typically find a compatible part.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoNot available in the US. The only thing they will do is either sell you spare small parts or issue a refund.
- Pasorrijer 6y agoI find this odd, in Canada we can get all the replacement parts needed. Just may have to wait a bit but they have them.
- throwanem 6y agoI'm in the US. I have several times gone to an Ikea store with damaged parts and been able to obtain replacements, sometimes free of charge - including with one part of an entertainment center kit that got dropped on the front porch steps, breaking one panel clean in half and cracking another. They took it back, gave us another, and sent us on our way no questions asked. I don't doubt you've had trouble, and I don't know what their website or otherwise remote customer service is like, but to say that the service is just not available at all in the US appears incorrect.
- conjectures 6y agoIn the UK you can get spare bits too.
- koheripbal 6y agoRepairing a couch is not an option unless you're skilled in re-apolstering.
- retSava 6y agoWell that goes for all couches, ikea or not, doesn't it? That wasn't the question here.
- koheripbal 6y ago...but other couches are built to last, so repair is much less commonly needed.
- olyjohn 6y agoHow many years does it have to last, before it's "built to last?" I've seen lots of Ikea couches that have lasted a long time.
- dkdbejwi383 6y ago> You can just go to any IKEA and buy a replacement part? Assuming there is a store nearby and even that the company is still in business. It's vendor lock-in. Meanwhile, my solid wood sideboard could be repaired by any competent cabinet maker, without needing specialist hinges or plastic brackets. Not that it is liable to fall apart as easily as particleboard & veneer.
- dubcanada 6y agoSorry, what? IKEA can be repaired by any competent cabinet maker. IKEA doesn't use anything fancy and weird, all their stuff is standard or a slightly variation of standard and could easily be replaced by a standard one. In fact most of the IKEA stuff is so popular it has become standard. IKEA sells both particleboard & veneer for their cheap/budget friendly stuff and hard pine/other wood for more expensive stuff. You can't have cheap and solid wood, it's just too expensive. Go down to the local wood shop and buy all the wood you need to make a sideboard and tell me how much it will cost. Certainly will be leagues higher then buying a particleboard & veneer version of the same thing.
- captainredbeard 6y ago> and hard pine/other wood for more expensive Pine is a softwood.
- thatguy0900 6y agoWhat would prevent your competent cabinet maker from attaching a new hinge and door to an ikea product?
- xxs 6y agoGoodness, I am a software developer, I don't have a woodworking shop but I'd be able to repair pretty much anything Ikea - epoxy, pva, some sawdust for filler (or woodfiller), buy particle boards with same/similar color melamine online. Any novice woodworker/joiner should be able to fix IKEA w/o any parts from IKEA even.