Timeline for Screw hole too big now in stud for hanging cabinets up. What can I do?
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| Nov 12, 2021 at 20:14 | comment | added | getrichordiediying | Mine didn’t come with wall screws. I believe IKEA’s general stance is to not provide because they don’t want to be held liable for people using them to install in the wrong materials and subsequent issues from that (people like me). | |
| Nov 11, 2021 at 9:42 | comment | added | Chris H | @DarrelHoffman light stuff might come with something generic, but drywall anchors won't hold a kitchen cupboard full of tinned food (for example) so you need to go into the stud (or masonry behind if it's a dry lining on a solid wall, as I have on my outside walls) | |
| Nov 11, 2021 at 3:39 | comment | added | KRyan | @DarrelHoffman Having just put up a wall-mounted IKEA cabinet, they didn’t give me screws for wall mounting and specifically refused to do so on the grounds that there are too many different types of walls and the needs for any given one are going to be different, and they couldn’t take the liability for giving someone the wrong set of screws. | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 20:32 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Most wall-mounted furniture I've gotten from IKEA usually comes with a set of drywall anchors specifically for this purpose. If it didn't, you should tell them and they'll probably give you a set for free. Otherwise, they're pretty cheap at most hardware box stores. | |
| S Nov 10, 2021 at 17:34 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Nov 10, 2021 at 17:34 | history | answered | DWGKNZ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |