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When I've moved in the past, the thing the moving companies won't assemble for you at the other end is "any IKEA furniture." That tells you enough about the ra
by agentgumshoe 3y ago
When I've moved in the past, the thing the moving companies won't assemble for you at the other end is "any IKEA furniture."
That tells you enough about the rate of success overall
- JAlexoid 3y agoIn the last 10 years I moved 9 times. Only 3 times of which were local moves and 2 were transatlantic. The movers would disassemble and reassemble whatever I paid them to move. Your movers are weird.
- crazygringo 3y agoNo, it's pretty common. Because movers are responsible for replacing your items if they damage them. They won't dissassemble/reassemble IKEA furniture because it's too likely to fail and then they'd be on the hook for replacement cost, through no fault of their own. Literally the first Google result for "will movers reassemble ikea furniture" states: > "Though individual policies vary, most movers will not disassemble and reassemble IKEA furniture, and some even require their customers to sign waivers against damage." Even if you sign a waiver, they still won't do it because of customer dissatisfaction -- bad reviews with "they ruined my furniture and wouldn't replace it" etc.
- ryandrake 3y agoWhy would one pay someone to assemble an IKEA furniture anyway? These things are so simple to assemble and rarely require more than a screwdriver and allen wrench. A six year old could put together pretty much anything in their catalog.
- JAlexoid 3y agoOur furniture is almost exclusively IKEA. While it's not the cheap stuff and movers never actually had to disassemble anything more than the bed frame, I have never seen "we don't move IKEA furniture" or any kinds of furniture related wavers.
- larsrc 3y agoThey're willing to assemble other furniture? In my experience, IKEA furniture is some of the best-designed self-assembled furniture. Other companies don't seem to give any thought to making it easy to assemble at all. Some of the assembly "manuals" are hilariously bad.
- dsr_ 3y agoIKEA stuff is generally great at assembly -- once. If the back of the cabinet is nailed on, it's never going to survive removal and re-assembly. It might not survive normal wear-and-tear if you use it a lot. If the process involves wood screws that bear weight, those joints won't survive disassembly.
- fmajid 3y agoIKEA owns TaskRabbit, and yes, they will assemble other brands' furniture.