We went to the new house again to assemble kitchen cabinets that we bought from Ikea few days. We did a self assemble as we know how to do it and cost saving. It is more sentimental as well when you do a self assemble as the satisfactory feel is there when you finally finish assemble the things.
Ken did most of the screwing while I helped to hold and minor things like that. Due to the heavy workload, Ken's finger swollen due to too much of screwing as we use manual screw driver to screw the screw. As it is weekend (Sunday) as well, the management forbidden the use of heavy machinery even a drill. Furthermore, we do not have any drill available at that moment. Finally, all the kitchen cabinets was assembled. The only things left is to mount them to the wall, assemble the doors to the cabinets and assemble the worktop.
After finished with the self assemble of kitchen cabinets, I distributed the things like lamps, kitchen stuffs, toilet stuffs and etc to the proper location that need to assemble accordingly so that when Ken assemble tomorrow, he no need to search high and low for it. While Ken take a short rest and continue to assemble the toilet glass cabinet.
Ken did most of the screwing while I helped to hold and minor things like that. Due to the heavy workload, Ken's finger swollen due to too much of screwing as we use manual screw driver to screw the screw. As it is weekend (Sunday) as well, the management forbidden the use of heavy machinery even a drill. Furthermore, we do not have any drill available at that moment. Finally, all the kitchen cabinets was assembled. The only things left is to mount them to the wall, assemble the doors to the cabinets and assemble the worktop.
After finished with the self assemble of kitchen cabinets, I distributed the things like lamps, kitchen stuffs, toilet stuffs and etc to the proper location that need to assemble accordingly so that when Ken assemble tomorrow, he no need to search high and low for it. While Ken take a short rest and continue to assemble the toilet glass cabinet.
Toilet Glass Cabinet
Before we go, we look at the kitchen cabinet again on how to arrage them as they come with different sizes. In the end, to our surprise, we found out that the worktop is lenghtier than the base cabinet! It must be when we purchase that time, the person in charge did not really do the calculation proper due to many customers in queue and we have overlooked it as well.
I called to Ikea Customer Hotline if we can exchange the base cabinet to bigger size. Unfortunately, according to the customer service officer, once we assembled the cabinet, we cannot exchange the size. She suggested us to change the worktop to the same size as the base cabinet or to take another extra 40cm base cabinet.
We discussed and in the end, we decided to buy another extra 40cm base cabinet looking at the hassle to move the worktop which is not light in weight. So, we go back to our rented house in Flora Damansara, take our bath and go to Ikea again to buy another 40cm base cabinet.
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