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> all IKEA furniture I ever dealt with were... at best, meh Also, can we get a raise of hands on the number of people who have vs have not been successful in d
by codetrotter 3y ago
> all IKEA furniture I ever dealt with were... at best, meh
Also, can we get a raise of hands on the number of people who have vs have not been successful in disassembling and reassembling IKEA BILLY bookshelves? I am fully convinced that it is near impossible for your average person to disassemble and reassemble BILLY bookshelves without damage.
I have a number of shelves possibly still sitting in storage at the university I studied at years ago, of all places. For two reasons. One, that I could not find anyone to help me get back in the room where they are stored after I left said university. Two, because I was so sceptical of ever being able to disassemble those bookshelves that I thought it better to leave them there until I could find a way to transport them without having to disassemble them again.
It's been years. I wonder if the shelves are still down there in the dank basement of the chemistry building of the University of Oslo alongside other PING student union things.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoI'm definitely keeping my hands down. IKEA BILLY are the ones we've inherited from the previous owners when moving in to the current apartment, and we had a handyman reinforce each one in the entire row with angle braces, and then screw them together so they don't flex independently, and then screw them to the wall - and only at that point we felt comfortable enough to start putting books into them. We've also inherited a few spare elements for BILLYs, I think some doors and shelves, never unpacked. I believe the previous owner gave up at the idea of attaching them to the assembled bookshelves, and never bothered to return them to the store.
- makeitdouble 3y agoBILLY is the shelf where you stop the back panel with nails or rivets, right ? It's absolutely not made to be disasembled. You'd need to go with the HEMNES line to have something a bit more solid and well thought out. People put all IKEA stuff in the same basket, but they have different designers who can have pretty different philosophies on how the furnitures are structured. Some are really clever, others really cheap and dumb. Their EXPEDIT / KALLAX line is another line that is extremely good regarding flexibility and modularity. We actually use two as bookshelves.
- selcuka 3y agoI disassembled and reassembled BILLY bookshelves after 4 years without any visible damage, and they served for another 3+ years until I moved overseas and sold them. Not sure if they survived the second move, but they definitely did the first time.
- funcDropShadow 3y agoI've got four BILLY bookshelves that are 24 years old. I've taking them with me the eight times I moved. And they were disassembled multiple times. But I am not sure whether any currently sold BILLY bookshelves would be that durable.