Tips for Assembling Ikea Pax Wardrobes

[Theonlyoneiknow]

Apologies in advance for all my Ikea threads!

Have just bought four wardrobes (4 x 75cm) which are 236cm high with sliding doors ( half mirror half white stained oak).

I am already dreading having to build them! Have found a few threads already on here with some tips ie/ cutting out skirting board if need to screw them to the wall.

Any other tips? Do you build them on the floor then lift up or build them up against the wall t make sure they don't scrape against ceiling when lift up? I am hoping they will fit! The Ikea designer measured herself and said they will fit so hoping she was right!.

Haven't done the interiors yet for the wardrobe as thought my head was going to explode in Ikea yesterday so that will be a whole different thread!

Thanks in advance!

[Theonlyoneiknow]

Thats what i was thinking, i would prefer to have mirror/ wood/mirror/wood i think rather than wood/mirror/mirror/wood

[Theonlyoneiknow]

Carcass one went up this morning, took about two hours (!) hopefully the rest won't take as long :-)

[Potterer]

once you have done one the others should be easier as you know what you are doing.

Am awaiting your update!

[Theonlyoneiknow]

Three shells now up :-). Next status update probably wont be till next weekend though !

[Trills]

Zombie thread I know but this was the first thing that came when I Googled for pax wardrobe tips.

Is it really better to assemble upright? I thought that the instructions said to assemble lying down unless there was really no room.

[wowfudge]

You won't be able to get the back panels on with them upright. Once you have the shell together, stand them up and do the interiors and doors.

[Trills]

Done it!

Well, the shell is together and the doors are on.

That took 2 of us about 5 hours. (2x 75cm wide 200cm high boxes, with sliding doors).

The hardest part was getting the 4-mirror-panel doors together.

Time for a beer now.

[LastTripToTulsa]

Just done two doubles but no instructions for sliding rails doors looked at them online and can't make sense of them😢Can anyone enlighten me ?

[Trills]

Are your door in bits?

Like - a frame with 4 panels to make the door?

[Trills]

I feel like Ikea really should have online versions of all of their instructions.

[Trills]

I'm going to try to give you the instructions

[Trills]

But there are a lot of pages

[Trills]

And there's a good chance I'll miss a page

[Trills]

Because I can only upload three at a time

[Trills]

The trickiest part was getting the doors together

[Trills]

But maybe your doors are one piece so you can skip a lot of this

[Trills]

How many pictures can I upload today?

[Trills]

At least this many apparently

[Trills]

Nearly there

[Trills]

OK I think that's it

If that's not your door, never mind

If that is your door, let me know if I've missed any steps or if you want me to try to explain what I think we did

[LastTripToTulsa]

Thank you trills . There are online ones but don't make much sense

[LastTripToTulsa]

Ah I have doors in one piece but there are holes straight through them maybe for air to pass through 🤔

[Trills]

So what are you trying to do? Attach the rail to the top and bottom of the wardrobe, attach the wheely thing to the top of the doors, and put the two together?

[LastTripToTulsa]

Yes we attached rails but there are loads of bits maybe it's not as bad as it looks 😬

[LastTripToTulsa]

It all makes sense now we are not just missing instructions from the box there are bits missing too important ones . Thank you very much for your instructions