Wish me luck I'm going where most 'men' fear to tread...

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I think I will need it..

Note to one's self read and re read instructions before trying to screw feet...

Right that's it I'm stopping for lunch...its telling me a measurement...bloody Norah...it said I need a hammer, flathead (Iv'e not got a 'flat head'but proceeded anyway) -a Philips and a Bradawl. nothing about a tape measure...

TFDB

Right got to get back to it now enough on here...hoping to get it finished befor dh comes home a 3.30pm, what are my chances?

I can't pick the bl*ody thing up now will have to wait for dh to help put it on its feet...

what a bugger - having to ask for help at the last hurdle - isn't there any 'muscle' around who can heave it up for you?

the dog! I can hear dh car so no luck will have to let you know later how things have gone..

I've told my dh he ought to start up a business putting flatpack furniture together. He's excellent at it. Took 20 minutes to assemble a wardrobe and less to put together ds's cabin bed.

He has to put TV stands together at work and average is 6 minutes - he was off for a month and they said it took them on average an hour and a half.

my Dh is the same galaxy.

maybe we could earn millions together

only did it cause he wasn't here...

Flat pack furniture assembly is a breeze in comparison to Playmobil Pirate Ship assembly I can tell you

playmobil I panicked when I saw "Pirate Ship", we have the Disney one to put together as opposed to the Playmobil; I have retrived Peter Pan and Captain Hook, but the rest of the box is too scary to contemplate!

spacedonkey, I apologise for calling you playmobil!! :)

My DH was threatening to put together our new IKEA table. When he was out I quickly put it together with my sister. He once put up a shelf in DS1's room, it was a heavy shelf with fell onto DS1's bed. Thank God he wasn't in it at the time.

tfdb - sorry to say but that's the funniest thing I've read here today

I've just bought the Disney pirate ship - do I need to assemble it before Xmas then..... HELP

put it this way, hubby has just come home, and said if he'd have known what was inside the box he definitely would have vetoed the choice!!

Many teeny bits, he's just putting birthday boy to bed, so shall I tell you later how he's got on!!??

In the Munker household, we share doing flatpacks. I love doing them, but DH is better at screwing tight than me

I think you will be glad to know that the cabinet is 'almost' finished....just have to put the catches on my hands are very sore though.....

That's what happens with manual screwing.

snowmeltsonthebeach, sort of done it, wld def recommend that you do it before Xmas, there are so many bits, dh kept muttering 'it's not a toy, it's a bl**dy construction kit'!!

just peep inside the box and see all the bits and then judge, everything has to be built, very fiddly little bits.