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Furniture Help/Misaligned Chest of Drawers

DA9DA9
edited November 2020 in Not Sports Related
Any furniture experts on here?

Have a chest of drawers that seem to get wider on the bottom set, won’t sit in runners, fall out etc, any suggestions?

TIA 

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  • I've got the same issue with a kid's "tallboy" falling apart. Going to take it apart and reassemble it today
  • Pad out the runner is probably easiest.
  • edited November 2020
    1) Get a tape measure
    2) Confirm that the bottom is wider than the top.  If so, something has moved
    3) Work out how this movement has occurred (eg some fasteners are no longer fastening)
    4) Move it back to its original position (gentle 'persuasion' may be required)
    5) Re-fasten
  • This could be your best bet, make sure the back is fitted in its slots first.

  • Turn it upside down.
  • That can be the trouble with modern flat pack furniture.

    Plenty of pre-owned solidly built furniture available that can be used as it is, re-purposed, reconditioned or restored.

    Do you know, it lasts a lifetime and rarely falls apart.


  • Definitely ideal to order furniture from a charity shop.

    Fridge freezer, double bed and mattress, sofa, TV, washing machine, vaccum, large book case, toaster and probably some other shit I forgot about.

    Just £550 combined + 20 delivery fee

    Sofa alone usually ranges £500-1000
  • Freecycle.org is an excellent website 
  • probably coming apart, remove drawers, reglue joins and if it has a backing reapply using as many pins as possible, ensuring it is square to itself, do this for the individual drawers also. It might also have got damp and wood has expanded or been badly made in the first place; or chuck it in a skip..
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  • razil said:
    probably coming apart, remove drawers, reglue joins and if it has a backing reapply using as many pins as possible, ensuring it is square to itself, do this for the individual drawers also. It might also have got damp and wood has expanded or been badly made in the first place; or chuck it in a skip..
    Unless he is the World's second greatest procrastinator (behind me) - I reckon @DA9 has probably already sorted this one way or another?!?
  • razil said:
    probably coming apart, remove drawers, reglue joins and if it has a backing reapply using as many pins as possible, ensuring it is square to itself, do this for the individual drawers also. It might also have got damp and wood has expanded or been badly made in the first place; or chuck it in a skip..
    Chuck it in a skip? Most people round my way just dump it on the pavement and let the council sort it out.
  • iaitch said:
    razil said:
    probably coming apart, remove drawers, reglue joins and if it has a backing reapply using as many pins as possible, ensuring it is square to itself, do this for the individual drawers also. It might also have got damp and wood has expanded or been badly made in the first place; or chuck it in a skip..
    Chuck it in a skip? Most people round my way just dump it on the pavement and let the council sort it out.
    Nice.
  • iaitch said:
    razil said:
    probably coming apart, remove drawers, reglue joins and if it has a backing reapply using as many pins as possible, ensuring it is square to itself, do this for the individual drawers also. It might also have got damp and wood has expanded or been badly made in the first place; or chuck it in a skip..
    Chuck it in a skip? Most people round my way just dump it on the pavement and let the council sort it out.
    Bermondsey?
  • iaitch said:
    razil said:
    probably coming apart, remove drawers, reglue joins and if it has a backing reapply using as many pins as possible, ensuring it is square to itself, do this for the individual drawers also. It might also have got damp and wood has expanded or been badly made in the first place; or chuck it in a skip..
    Chuck it in a skip? Most people round my way just dump it on the pavement and let the council sort it out.
    Bermondsey?
    Beckenham actually.
  • Where I used to live in Hackney you used to dump it on the street and within 30 seconds someone would have nicked it because no matter how shut it was it was better than what they had: 
  • If it ain’t there it can’t go wrong.
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