On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:55:57 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Anyone remember that wonderful episode of Only Fools & Horses with the
chandelier?


Thanks for sharing!

A few months ago I was putting my daughter's Ikea wardrobe together.
Their PAX range, the sides are over 7ft high and it's all chipboard.
I'd built one secton on the floor, without problem, but this one was
twice as wide.
I should have built it vertically but decided to do it the same way as
before BUT (crucially) I had to rotate it 90 degrees due to lack of
space.
I assembled the base, top and sides BUT didn't put on the backing
board - no room. I now had a rectangle of wood about 7ft by 3ft with
NO bracing (the backing board) and stupidly tried to lift one end off
the floor.

My daughter was holding the other end saying "I don't think this is a
good idea Dad" and, sure enough, the rectangle changed into a
parallelogram. The top end I was lifting broke from its fixings and
dropped onto the lower piece.
It broke, very neatly, exactly half way.

So a 20 miles each way trip and £50 later I did it the right way.

I thought of trying to re-create the event for You've been Framed
(I've now got a spare side of a wardrobe) so I'd come out ahead but
the family aren't interested!
Any ideas what to do with one side of a wardrobe?