Grrrr!

Today I fitted 28 handles to IKEA wooden drawers and aluminium door frames.
Two screws secured each handle.

The instructions glibly stated "drill two 5 mm holes at 448 mm centres".

Easy with a bench drill in the workshop, not so easy inside a walk in
dressing room with little space & poor lighting, even with a home made
template. Must be a simpler way with some adjustment surely? Could have
been done in half the time.

Friday I put up several curtain poles. The fixing was a circular plate
about 40mm dia with 3 holes. Not too bad in plasterboard, but the fixings
are so close together they must weaken the board. Difficult in brick to get
3 accurate holes that close together. One single No 12 screw through the
middle would have been easier and stronger.

Do the people who design these things ever have to put them up? Are they on
the same planet?


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Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257