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Reading an extract from KME's post on the "DYJHIW" thread..
"Half the time is spent moving furniture around (love the old MFI wardrobes that threaten to collapse if you breathe on them."
the MFI wardrobe situation reminded me of the various hazards when moving customers furniture...
I was once working in a bedroom with a four shelf bookcase approx 1m wide..
needed to get behind it and move the carpet beneathe it...
I took all of the books off the top shelf...
then decided I could pick the whole lot up and carry it with remaining books still on the lower three shelves..
I picked up the uint by the second shelf down..
only to find the second shelf had some of those flat-pack key-hole type stud locators which allow the shelf to lift away from the side pieces..
As the shelf came up it was evident that the end pieces only had dowels into the remaing shelf... no glue.... no screws... no nails,
Just dowels between shelves & the sides except for the key-hole fittings in the shelf I had just lifted off,
which was the main securing piece. :|
gravity & the books keep the key-hole locators in place.....
until you lift that shelf up:O
As I went to lift & move the one side piece just fell away!!!
shelves colapse... books all over the floor!! :_|
All because I didn't want to empty the shelf before I moved the bookcase!
Doh! X(
"Half the time is spent moving furniture around (love the old MFI wardrobes that threaten to collapse if you breathe on them."
the MFI wardrobe situation reminded me of the various hazards when moving customers furniture...
I was once working in a bedroom with a four shelf bookcase approx 1m wide..
needed to get behind it and move the carpet beneathe it...
I took all of the books off the top shelf...
then decided I could pick the whole lot up and carry it with remaining books still on the lower three shelves..
I picked up the uint by the second shelf down..
only to find the second shelf had some of those flat-pack key-hole type stud locators which allow the shelf to lift away from the side pieces..
As the shelf came up it was evident that the end pieces only had dowels into the remaing shelf... no glue.... no screws... no nails,
Just dowels between shelves & the sides except for the key-hole fittings in the shelf I had just lifted off,
which was the main securing piece. :|
gravity & the books keep the key-hole locators in place.....
until you lift that shelf up:O
As I went to lift & move the one side piece just fell away!!!
shelves colapse... books all over the floor!! :_|
All because I didn't want to empty the shelf before I moved the bookcase!
Doh! X(