Timeline for Do I have to secure an IKEA TV stand to the wall?
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| May 1, 2020 at 19:32 | comment | added | DMoore | @RobertHarvey - that would be part of the extraneous factors. Also in my example my TV stand is 16 inches off the ground. An NFL player can come at it will full force and hit it (not lift it up) and it wouldn't fall over and would probably barely move. If I lived in California. I would definitely not be buying IKEA furniture that stood greater than two feet high with kids in the house. | |
| May 1, 2020 at 16:51 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @DMoore: You've apparently never lived in California. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 18:47 | comment | added | DMoore | I wholeheartedly disagree with this assessment. No downvote but this simply isn't true. The idea of fastening everything to a wall is ridiculous. Each piece is its own assessment. It is based on how the piece is made, center of gravity, extraneous forces (doors opening, drawers opening), who is in the house and has access to the furniture, the slope of the floor around the furniture and so on. I have a TV stand that is pure metal with shelves made of tempered glass - at 70lbs+. No way in world I need to anchor it... because it isn't cheap IKEA crap. My IKEA crap is anchored. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 5:48 | comment | added | Mast | Ikea Will Pay $46 Million to Parents of Toddler Crushed to Death by a Dresser (nytimes). "The Swedish furniture retailer Ikea agreed to pay a $46 million settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the parents of a California toddler who was crushed to death by a popular dresser model that had been recalled after at least five other children were killed." That's why. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:09 | history | answered | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |