We have a Lazio two-door sliding wardrobe (one door is mirrored) bought from Harveys/Bensons For Beds that needs to be disassembled for an impending house move, then reassembled at the new place.
Does anyone know where I can download assembly instructions for it as my Google-Fu seems to have let me down?
just take some photos.
That may help in putting it back together but not how to take it apart in the first place.
Is it not standard flatpack construction?
It likely has some type of KD fixings (Google them) The hinges should be dismantlable but will be cheap so be careful. The back may be in a groove or pinned in. Like the man said take some photos of the fittings and post them up
I don't know, to be honest. When it was delivered I'd broken my ankle so we paid for them to assemble it. I know it's big and well made, with each piece being bloody heavy and there's no chance of me managing it myself due to a long-standing back injury. We know we'll have to pay someone so I was hoping to get the instructions ready for them instead of the possibility of them spending an hour (that I'll be paying for) searching for it. I'm a life-long telephone engineer and (dis)assembling flatpacks is like witchcraft to me anyway.
Bensons for Beds are still stocking this so you could try either in store or give them a call and ask them to send a set of instructions out to you. They *may* have good customer service...
Brilliant, cheers Bev :D
I would also be careful when putting it back together if it is just screws into chipboard as a unit from the Co-op was that you move the corner blocks to not use the old halls. You can always fill those but it often amazes me how these bits of furniture rely on next to nothing to hold them up, such as a bit of hardboard nailed to the back and some chipboard screws and plastic corner pieces. With a heavy sliding door they do not like being taken apart and reassembled. Lets hope yours is better made. Brian
Is there such a thing as standard, in flat pack? Brian
My neighbour pulled apart his wardrobe to burn. I saw some useful timber and asked for it. When it came over the fence, I realised that it was rebuildable. I needed no instructions.
I dismantled a fitted wardrobe without instructions a few years ago, and it could have been reassembled but it went in a skip. It looked a bit naff, which was why I got rid of it.
If they're capable they should have no problem, though a photo can sometimes help if things are odd. You got the destructions anyway, probably won't need them.
Ask advise from the removal company to see if they can remove it assembled (or without the mirrored doors.). Just because you and a mate cannot lift it doesn't mean those in the business of removal cannot.
In general, yes. All flat pack from various sources that I've assembled all have use the same fixings for joining the individual parts. If you look on Ebay for spares you will not find a great variety of different parts.
Incompatibility between different manufacturers may be in the dimensions of things like kitchen cupboards or the spacing of the door hinges but in my recent experience often down to built in obsolescence - just make the new item a couple of cm deeper than something purchased in the same store a few yeas ago.
If the OP didn't build it himself what he may find is that the flat pack came with some glue and/or those assembling it may have added it. Usually cam lock joiners are accompanied with wooden dowels in a different position along the edge of a slab. Although perhaps the glue is not common place today I have had some included 15/20 years back for glueing in the dowels.
Dismantling a flat pack sometimes can be more difficult than assembling it. Last year when I dismantled a heavy bookcase I gave up with the gentle method and resorted to the lump hammer method. It was going down to the tip. The wooden dowels were firmly attached to both pieces of the joins and then damaged holes and laminate when pulling the pieces apart.
On something like a wardrobe the seemingly flimsy pack panel adds a lot of strength and stops the whole structure from leaning and putting stress on the fixings and the holes in the chipboard. I would advise laying the front of the wardrobe down on the floor before removing the back panel.
If there is *any* possibility of selling it to the incoming buyers of your house, do that.
Things like cam locks are very difficult to dismantle, as you have to turn them to exactly the right angle. If really well assembled, the back panel may have been glued on - that's something I often do with flat pack furniture. By trying to dismantle it, you have a reasonable chance of turning this wardrobe into scrap, I'm afraid.
Our removal people said (and they were right) that even good quality flat pack furniture doesn't have the structural rigidity to survive a move. Well, it may survive, but it'll never be quite the same again.
Often there will be panel pins securing the back panel, for extra rigidity. Extracting them without damage may be interesting.
If a wardrobe is close to the ceiling, it may be necessary to do partial dismantling whilst it is upright, as there could be insufficient clearance to swing it to the floor.
Chris
usually easier than actually getting them to STAY in...
Good idea but it won't go down the stairs and they've already said it'll have to be dismantled - and not by them.
It was about 750 quid two years ago and is amongst the best quality I've ever seen in a flatpack. It's only ever been used as an 'overflow' wardrobe (for those things you intend to slim back into but never do) so it's like brand new and the incomers don't want to buy it from us, so one way or another it has to be disassembled and come with us.
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