>>IKEA marathon build...
I purchased my first actual piece of furniture from IKEA last spring. A wardrobe to replace my floorrobe.
It wasn't cheap and I wasn't that impressed. The build quality was fine, but many pieces are foil covered hexagon boards - not solid and quite vulnerable to damage. In fact on opening one of the packages, one item had a large hole, even though there was just a small "nick" on the packaging. To give them their due, IKEA sent a replacement panel without fuss but it took a few weeks due to us not being in their normal delivery circle.
There were connectors that were screwed in to panels with a cam nut in the connecting panel. These were all plastic. Dunelm furniture assembled for Miss Z had more robust aluminium connectors and cams.
There were also plastic connectors that were pre-moulded in to panels and these went in to holes in connecting boards and you were supposed to slide the panels with holes to lock the connector in to a smaller gap. These looked easy to connect on videos of people assembling the units but in reality required a huge amount of force. I called a carpenter acquaintance around and he thought the machine making them were both at different ends of their tolerances which was why they were so difficult to click in to place.
The instructions were not very clear either.
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