Repaired the Wardrobe: nailed it!

We moved house, from Isan to Prachuap Kiri Khan and we took some of our furniture with us. Since we are renting this house, we kept some of their furniture, including a wardrobe.

I did a few repairs to a bookshelf we brought with us and that went well. So, onto the wardrobe.

We worked as a team of two to hold the frame square as we hammered in the panel pins that held the back boards in place that, in turn, strengthen the whole piece.

We did a good job and we ended up with a sturdy, albeit IKEA style, chipboard cheap looking thing. It's functional.

I am starting a work trip so it was time to gather shirts, ties, trousers, suit: that order.

I got to the suit jacket and felt some resistance as I tried to take it out. It wouldn't move. I thought we'd just nipped it between the frame and the back board. We did nip it. More than that not only nipped but nailed. Two panel pins had been driven through a sleeve that had been nipped as we did our work!

It took us 10 to 15 minutes to extricate the thing and there are two pin holes in one of the sleeves and a pin hole in the edge at the back of it.

Hey ho! Ever done that?

DW

5th November 2022