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new table!
Jun. 20th, 2019 11:43 pmI have a new desk and I'm all aglow with happiness! It is L shaped, I bought it for as a flatpack for about a hundred dollars, and it has no drawers but it does have two shelves at one end. I, um, bought it in November, being fed up that my desk was tiny - it wasn't deep enough to have my computer (then a fairly large 15") and work on something analogue like a piece of paper at the same time, and moreover was unsteady, as in I would erase something and the whole thing would sway. The swaying drove me crazy.
However once I got the package - which was very heavy and there was some thinking and trial-and-error to get it up the 5 steps - I discovered that the instruction packet said I needed way more screws than had been shipped. So I contacted customer service, and they said yes we can replace the screws, and they sent me the same thing. Aargh. So I wrote back and said hey, on my first request I said exactly what I was missing (with their product numbers and how many of each), I just got sent the same thing as my original package. To be fair, the lady answering my question was quite nice and said, "I see what you're missing, I'm going to send you them separately" so in December, I got mail that consisted of two yellow bubble-package mailers of just screws. Like I tore the mailers open and it was just fistfuls of screws and cam locks and stuff.
Anyway it's taken till now. (To be fair, I wasn't able to use my arm between March to, well, now - still restricted to under 10 lb but at least I can use my left arm again). I told one of my book club friends - who was so annoyed she couldn't install the drywall in her boyfriend's house - that she should come over and peer-pressure me into FINALLY assembling my table, and she was so excited to come to my apartment and assemble it. Which she kinda did. Thank god, because the whole screw-acquiring episode was sufficiently irritating that I kept putting it off.
The assembly instructions were not very good. I think it must have been an instruction manual for a slightly different table, because though the table assembled just fine, it kept telling us to put this cam lock into this place but it wouldn't fit (still baffled) - we went with what did fit, and it worked.
But!! despite all that, the table was built, and it's less prone to shaking than the last one, so YAY. And it has much more workspace than my last one did! So I am so pleased. I am sure that I will manage to fill it with all my stuff - indeed I think I need to buy some organizers because I no longer have that drawer, and maybe tidy/throw out some stuff I don't really use - but I am so happy. Ahhhhh, more work space!!
However once I got the package - which was very heavy and there was some thinking and trial-and-error to get it up the 5 steps - I discovered that the instruction packet said I needed way more screws than had been shipped. So I contacted customer service, and they said yes we can replace the screws, and they sent me the same thing. Aargh. So I wrote back and said hey, on my first request I said exactly what I was missing (with their product numbers and how many of each), I just got sent the same thing as my original package. To be fair, the lady answering my question was quite nice and said, "I see what you're missing, I'm going to send you them separately" so in December, I got mail that consisted of two yellow bubble-package mailers of just screws. Like I tore the mailers open and it was just fistfuls of screws and cam locks and stuff.
Anyway it's taken till now. (To be fair, I wasn't able to use my arm between March to, well, now - still restricted to under 10 lb but at least I can use my left arm again). I told one of my book club friends - who was so annoyed she couldn't install the drywall in her boyfriend's house - that she should come over and peer-pressure me into FINALLY assembling my table, and she was so excited to come to my apartment and assemble it. Which she kinda did. Thank god, because the whole screw-acquiring episode was sufficiently irritating that I kept putting it off.
The assembly instructions were not very good. I think it must have been an instruction manual for a slightly different table, because though the table assembled just fine, it kept telling us to put this cam lock into this place but it wouldn't fit (still baffled) - we went with what did fit, and it worked.
But!! despite all that, the table was built, and it's less prone to shaking than the last one, so YAY. And it has much more workspace than my last one did! So I am so pleased. I am sure that I will manage to fill it with all my stuff - indeed I think I need to buy some organizers because I no longer have that drawer, and maybe tidy/throw out some stuff I don't really use - but I am so happy. Ahhhhh, more work space!!
