IKEA refund for unstable drawers

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Confused.

I've often assembled Ikea bits of furniture like this, and had been given fixings to fix them to the wall.

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Adrian Caspersz
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We have those Ikea Malm chest of drawers but didn't get any wall fixing brackets.

Reply to
pamela

Many people live in rented accomodation and are not permitted to drill into walls.

Unfortunately, much rented accomodation is tiny and they will be the same places that need tall, thin drawer units as they don't have the space for something deeper or lower and wider.

Reply to
Steve Walker

+1

I have three Malm dressers upstairs, everyone of them came with fixings to attach it to the wall.

Not fixing it would be my fault is that article perhaps for the American market where they seem to expect everything is someone else's fault.

Reply to
soup

We had two Malm dressers assembled by my teenage nephew a couple of weeks ago. He didn't mention any wall fixings.

Although Ikea doesn't provide spare bits in their assembly packs, we did end up with an uneven number of left over bits which I took to be the product of his rushed approach and the need for his iPod to be switched on and within his line of sight as he worked.

The extra bits don't exactly look like wall fixings. Maybe we will have to get him back although the dressers seem stable enough and, anyway, we don't want them against the wall.

Reply to
pamela

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tim...

Its hardly a new problem either - stuff with drawers can fall over, and has been doing so since drawers were invented probably!

(although I would say its worse with modern furniture where all the drawers are on very easy gliding runners, since the moment that starts to tip, the other drawers start opening as well, and you get a avalanche effect that gets out of control very quickly)

Reply to
John Rumm

I assemble shed loads and everything come with wall fixings.

IKEA don't provide spare bits because it confuses people if they have left over parts. Never had a shortage though.

They use two types, one is a flat fabric strip, the other are key hole type metal plates.

Seems likely.

Reply to
David Lang

They are stable, until you pull all the loaded drawers out. Then they toppl e.

It's odd that Ikea is being singled out, this issue applies to almost all d omestic drawer units. They lack the interlock system used on commercial/ind ustrial drawer units.

I suspect part of the problem is the rise of irresponsibility of children. And another part the unlikely belief that we live in a safe world, and cons equent strong irrational reactions to discovering that we don't.

The move to lightweight chipboard & lower friction runners happened in the

60s & 70s, so I doubt that's it.

If it costs - guess here - another £10 to put an interlock on each che st of drawers, 29 million units = £290 million additional cost to sa ve 3 toddlers.

If instead one spent that £290m on saving lives in the NHS, at £2

0k-30k per qaly that's 11,600 extra qalys, which would save more than 3 tod dler's lives as well as many others. So much for sense.

NT

Reply to
tabbypurr

Happened to pass through an Ikea at the weekend - at least some Malm stuff was highlight of their current Sale.

The short Malm drawer unit we got when they were still quite new came with wall fixing. Trouble is, we really don't want to have to mess up the wall and make it awkward to relocate the furniture.

Reply to
polygonum

The problem is that plenty don?t bother and that has produced 6 dead kids.

Reply to
Jacky Chance

And how is that solved by suing IKEA ?

Reply to
soup

It's the US, ffs.

Reply to
Adrian

IKEA wasn?t sued.

Reply to
Jacky Chance

Jumped before they were pushed ? The way that article reads there were a lot of 'discussion papers', 'writs' etc flying about.

Reply to
soup

Nope, did what made sense after those 6 dead kids and realised that plenty wouldn?t attach it to the wall for various reasons.

Because it made sense to work out what could be done and realise that recalling it was all that is practical before any more kids ended up dead.

Reply to
Jacky Chance

Filing cabinets have an interlockig system so only one drawer at a time can be opened.

Reply to
harry

What six kids. You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts

And somehow those reasons are down to IKEA to sort

What like fixing the drawers to the walls or not allowing unsupervised access or...

Jacky don't get me wrong it is heartrending loosing a child but I see no future in blaming others for what was clearly in your (TINY) hands.

Reply to
soup

Er, you do know who "Jacky" is?

Reply to
Adrian Caspersz

Er nope . Does it matter?

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soup

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