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to find the Stokke Tripp Trapp....

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DaDaDa · 04/01/2008 09:50

...a complete ball-acher to assemble. I thought the Scandewegians were supposed to be logical people?!

Seriously, as soon as DS is old enough to manage an allen key he can do the flat packs and I'll play with the toy cars.

[early contender for most middle-class AIBU post of the year]

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cherryredretrochick · 04/01/2008 09:54

You win, but it does make me feel better about the fact that I couldn't afford one (really really wanted one). The cheap crappy high chair I bought from MC was very easy to assemble.
Only joking I'm sure it will be worth the effort, anyway it is probably baby brain causing the problems

ninedragons · 04/01/2008 10:00

We bought the Stokke pushchair then couldn't work out how to assemble it. We ended up bringing the boxes out at our New Year drinkies and instantly had three competitive men trying to outdo each other to put it together - up and working within about 10 minutes.

Competition + testosterone = one functioning Scandewegian buggy ready to go.

jacobandlysetteandabump · 04/01/2008 10:03

my dh is terrible at assembling things so left me to do it. agreed it's not the easiest thing, and try taking it apart every month to do full clean where food gets all stuck in the baby seat, and in the little grooves behing the seat etc....

particularly as dh almost insists on it being taken apart to wash down (he at least does the washing of it) and then gives the pieces back to me to put back together

AndAHabbiBuYear · 04/01/2008 10:15

WinkyWinkola · 04/01/2008 10:25

Tripp Trapp = dead easy to assemble. Even I managed it and I'm pretty cack handed at these sorts of things. I wasn't v. keen on the quiz I had to take on the website before I could purchase the chair though!

wb · 04/01/2008 10:39

I didn't find ours too difficult to assemble - years of training on IKEA flatpacks obviously stood me in good stead.

I have never taken it apart to clean it though

hifi · 04/01/2008 10:55

my 11 year old nephew put mine together without looking at the instructions, i gave him a tenner as we would have had to call an odd job man out.

alicet · 04/01/2008 12:08

PMSL at ninedragons post!! Will remember this in future with any flatpacks! In fact we have a flat pack sofa bed (???!) from Ikea sitting in boxes in our sitting room at the mo - any of your dh's fancy a contest?

currantbunmum · 04/01/2008 12:19

We have Trip Traps for both DD's, find them very easy to keep clean, especially when I see all the crud in nooks and crannies on some high chairs, bleugh!

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DaDaDa · 04/01/2008 13:13

Oh, the chair was easy enough. Put it together.... then take it apart to put on the 'baby set' (kerching!) then put it back together. Then take it apart again to put the fiddly cushion (kerching!) over the bloody 'baby set' then put it all back together again.

Can you tell I was coerced into getting this by my DW?

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lalalonglegs · 04/01/2008 13:29

Yeah, I went down Tripp Trapp route by persuading myself that it was absolutely worth tear-inducing price because it was so adaptable and dc could use it for ever. Do not underestimate the mess that can be created by having no catch-all tray nor how leprous that leathery bit becomes or how quickly your dc will scream to sit in a normal dining chair and completely ignore the designer gorgeousness next to them...

currantbunmum · 04/01/2008 16:21

DD1 is 5 and has always loved hers, DD2 is 2 1/2 and does escape every now and again, but they get a huge thumbs up from us.

Flllightattendant · 04/01/2008 16:23

I really like assembling flat packs.

I did a complete bedroom suite in a morning once, and was paid with cake

Can I get a job with that company that send people round to erect furniture, do you think?

littlelapin · 04/01/2008 16:23

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TillyScoutsmum · 04/01/2008 16:29

No problem assembling ours but find it almost impossible to get 8 month old (admittedly fairly "cherubic" baby) into the bloody thing. Have now given up and bought a cheaper plastic thing that doesn't require her to bend her legs completely the wrong way ..

Looks lovely though - sitting there brand new and unused in the corner of the dining room

grannyslippers · 04/01/2008 16:55

What was the problem? All the fiddly screw-and-washer things?

Would not be without ours but really they only came into their own after about 18mths old. Before that, Antilop ruled.

at taking it apart to wash - what is there you can't reach? We have never bothered with cushions though.

revgreen · 04/01/2008 17:13

I think they are pretty easy. DS can change it from toddler seat to adult seat himself (he is 3). I never had cushions and things because I used IKEA one when they were smaller. I don't take it apart to clean .

Swedes2Turnips1 · 04/01/2008 17:22

I bought mine second-hand and ready assembled. [green and smug emoticon]

Was anyone else alarmed by the instructions showing a teenager sitting on the Tripp Trapp strumming a guitar? He looks about 19.

Joash · 04/01/2008 17:25

AN absolute doddle to put together, but beware - we bought it in the belief that GS would use it for years. Once he turned 2 & 1/2 he didnt want to go anywhere near it so we sold

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DaDaDa · 04/01/2008 17:28

Grannyslippers - No, just the fact that the instructions told you to assemble the thing, then you look at the baby set and realise you have to semi-disassemble it to put that on, then you realise the cushion doesn't velcro around the leather strap.

I'm a man. I actually read the instructions first and it was still a pain in the arse. Where's the justice in that?!

at all your toddlers who can set the things up. You're all just trying to get a rise out of me

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3madboys · 04/01/2008 17:33

never had any probs with ours, we have three and they get used daily, never had to take them apart to clean either.

also ds3 helped to build his when he was two, i have some very cute photos of him helping daddy

i think they are fab

merryberry · 04/01/2008 17:43

echoing earlier post, take it apart to wash it? when we've taken it apart to make it bigger, there's been no excess crud anywhere...

Swedes2Turnips1 · 04/01/2008 17:56

I am now looking for another for my 6 month old. Has anyone's child reached the end of their guitar playing in their highchair days and want to sell?

If it was ready assembled that would be good.

ladygrinningsoul · 04/01/2008 18:11

DH can take ours apart and put it back together so swiftly that we have often taken it on holiday with us, dismantled. We never had the baby bit of it though, just the chair. We got it after DS refused at 18 months to sit in any other high chair (the Tripp Trapp, he could climb on and off unassisted any time he wanted instead of being stuck). Still going strong almost 3 years later after several adjustments.

evenhope · 04/01/2008 18:18

We had the same trouble. Got it put together OK then had to disassemble to put the baby bit in and it wouldn't go back together.

Not using the bottom cushion while child nappied, as per instructions

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