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I bought a Wayfair Terrone, by Brayden Studio, fold away bed for the spare room. The idea is it folds into it own box and comes requiring, to quote Wayfair, self assembly. Hmmm, 5 boxes were delivered by very fit Polish guys, 2 off. So after opening some of them, those I couldn't actually man handle upstairs in one go I started to get a bit concerned with the number of parts and the complete lack of instructions. Eventually box 3 contained the pictorial instructions, all 18 pages of them with 3 drawings per page.
Now, I am pretty good with this flat pack stuff, but it was heavy going in the extreme.
I have blisters on my palms from the multitude of bolts, screws and connectors that I have screwed in, twisted round or tightened all weekend.
I started Saturday at 11 had a quick lunch and fell into the shower at 6 exhausted and stinking like a horse, the good news was that by then I had inserted all the screws and connectors bad news was I hadn't actually put any panels together.
I continued on Sunday, starting at 10 as I knew I was going to be whacking bits together and didn't want to cheese off my neighbour.
And so it continued, it's just about all together now, just need to add the back panels, fix the wall brackets, remove the skirting, move an electric socket, decorate the room to repair the damage I have caused moving a mains socket, all that is for next weekend.
I finished today at 6, exhausted and smelling like a horse again, collapsing into the shower again.
Funny I thought I was going to take some photos this weekend.
Best bit is we will probably never actually use it as a bed, just wanted to create some space so the Mrs can use it as her craft room and put someone up if needs be.
Ho hum, must be worth a few browny points.
Matt
Now, I am pretty good with this flat pack stuff, but it was heavy going in the extreme.
I have blisters on my palms from the multitude of bolts, screws and connectors that I have screwed in, twisted round or tightened all weekend.
I started Saturday at 11 had a quick lunch and fell into the shower at 6 exhausted and stinking like a horse, the good news was that by then I had inserted all the screws and connectors bad news was I hadn't actually put any panels together.
I continued on Sunday, starting at 10 as I knew I was going to be whacking bits together and didn't want to cheese off my neighbour.
And so it continued, it's just about all together now, just need to add the back panels, fix the wall brackets, remove the skirting, move an electric socket, decorate the room to repair the damage I have caused moving a mains socket, all that is for next weekend.
I finished today at 6, exhausted and smelling like a horse again, collapsing into the shower again.
Funny I thought I was going to take some photos this weekend.
Best bit is we will probably never actually use it as a bed, just wanted to create some space so the Mrs can use it as her craft room and put someone up if needs be.
Ho hum, must be worth a few browny points.
Matt
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