You'd think Tesco's would put wording on their instructions...

[Baloki]

And now for the inevitable flat pack thread. To build this thread you will need:

Bloody Good Eyesight
Mind Reading Abilites
To understand that everything you read is only a 5th of what you need to do
Brilliant Spacial awareness
A degree in rocket science.


As you can tell I built a flat pack outside seat rocking thing with my mum today. And not only was there not a single word on the whole instructions and it only consisted of one page but the pictures looked like they were drawn by 5 year olds with a chipped ruler....

Have you had this experiance (My flat pack desk was a pleasure to build so I know not all flat packs are evil) before, and do Ikea make better flat packs as I've never had one from there before?

[Kirobaito]

Yes and Yes.

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EDIT: What's a flat pack?
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[Rainecloud]

The majority of desks and shelving units that I've purchased have contained terribly written instruction manuals that hardly make any sense. I usually get my Dad to help me when it comes to assembling things like this. With him around, I don't even need instructions.

I agree, though. Badly drawn diagrams and stupid instruction manuals are really annoying.

[Baloki]

Yes and Yes.

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EDIT: What's a flat pack?
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Its when everything comes unassembled and you have to build it yourself following some instructions, a hammer, a screwdriver and glue :D

[Leeza]

I've constructed two armoires that hold my TV's from flat packs, all by myself, as well as a few other pieces. I had no problems. I guess Canadian flat packs come with better instructions. :)

[Iceglow]

or it could be leeza (shock horror) that you like I have a natural aptitude for this kind of stuff I actually made the bed in my room and the units out of pieces of wood without any help I designed, marked and cut the wood before fitting it together and theyre more stable than any flat pack I ever built for my mom or even my older brother (he hates them they bring on his migraines more than his kids do so he pays me to build them.)

[Squires]

I read the thread title as "You'd think Taco's would put wording on their instructions..." and was disappointed to find no mention of tacos in the thread.

[Del Murder]

Me too! You should make one Squires. Though it is easy to eat a taco, sometimes the stuff falls out.

[Yamaneko]

They have some awesome cinnamon rolls at Ikea.

[crono_logical]

Pssh, it's all the more fun without instructions as you have to work it out yourself :p

[Chaos]

The only flatpack thing I put up was a CD holder, that was easy enough.

Instructions are bad anyway. I want someone to do it for me.
Or better still, just do it all myself. And have it work.

Chaos