[praneshp]

To counter with anecdotal evidence, all the people I know that use Ikea furniture love how easy it is to use/assemble.

I do dislike how difficult it is to move furniture across houses though, I either need to move it as one piece or get the mover to disassemble/assemble.

[semi-extrinsic]

There's definitely a split in society on whether IKEA furniture is easy or hard to assemble. It being hard (albeit for a blind person) was used as a funny point in Deadpool.

Personally, I subscribe to the school of thought that says IKEA furniture should be assembled only after the instructions pamphlet has been burned. Needless to say, my better half disapproves.

An important corollary in this doctrine is that IKEA should go all-out Unbraco or Torx on their screws; wretched be those who advocate Philips heads in any application!

[thirdsun]

> There's definitely a split in society on whether IKEA furniture is easy or hard to assemble.

Would those people that consider Ikea furniture hard to assemble be more comfortable with other furniture? My guess is that they would encounter the same problems with any kind of furniture since, in my opinion, Ikea's is actually rather simple. I think it's more of a case of people not knowing how to drive complaining about how difficult to use Fords are.

[ethbro]

> An important corollary in this doctrine is that IKEA should go all-out Unbraco or Torx on their screws; wretched be those who advocate Philips heads in any application!

Aren't most main fasteners in IKEA furniture shear-loaded though? The last assembly I can remember doing was exclusively the post & socket type connectors in pre-drilled holes.

And if you're not actually torquing a fastener then Philips+ seems a bit overkill.

[semi-extrinsic]

IIRC most of the Philips stuff I've encountered (and cursed) on IKEA furniture were for attaching small things; the main fasteners are usually good (unbrako).

[Moru]

I read somewhere that IKEA is slowly moving to snap-fastening solutions but I haven't seen any of them yet.

[zerocrates]

IKEA screw heads are often Pozidriv in my experience, they just don't tell you that.

[semi-extrinsic]

Sure, but only slightly less awful than Philips.