Attaching wardrobes to walls

livalicious

We currently decorating our spare bedroom and looking at getting a cheap wardrobe from Ikea just to hang a few coats and in case visitors would like to hang up a few bits. I noticed on their website, Ikea states all their wardrobes need to be attached to the wall with their brackets which you can buy seperately.

Now i do like rearranging furniture every so often, and because we wont be putting alot of things into the actual wardrobe, is it still necessary to attach it to the wall. We dont have any small children running about, otherwise I definitely would have secured it for safety reasons.

Ebe_Scrooge

I think a lot of these instructions telling you to secure it to the wall are to cover themselves in these days of blame and compensation claims. For what it's worth, I've never attached wardrobes to the wall, and I haven't died yet :-)

If the floor if not quite level and the wardrobe is rocking a bit, I generally stick a couple of bits of hardboard under the front ( tucked right under so that you can't see them ), so that the wardrobe tilts ever so slightly backwards against the wall, if you see what I mean. I'm only talking about 1 or 2 mm, so you won't even notice it unless you get a spirit level out, but that should prevent anything untowards happening.

livalicious

We thinking of getting these ones, so im not sure we could tuck in some hardboard underneath without it being noticeable:

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90121762

We have an old wardrobe in the room at the moment which the previous home owners left behind. It served a purpose for awhile but it needs replacing (dont even think anyone on freecycle would want it, its that bad). Its not attached to the wall either, however it does tilt slightly forward and has bits of carpet underneath to keep it steady, and it hasnt fallen over yet either! I just wanted to make sure Ikea's particular wardrobes (being dirt cheap) had to be attached because they would definitely fall over.

Moomum

All of our ikea wardrobes say attatch to wall and we never have, had one set for 8 years and still not fallen over ;-p

livalicious

Brillliant, Ikea here we come!;)

pinkteapot

As others have said, I've never bothered attaching a wardrobe to the wall. The only item I did bother with was a 6' bookcase as it was a cheapy Argos one and was so shallow that it would have toppled easily. A wardrobe on the other hand would take some effort to pull over.

MsHoarder

livalicious wrote: »

We thinking of getting these ones, so im not sure we could tuck in some hardboard underneath without it being noticeable:

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90121762

We have an old wardrobe in the room at the moment which the previous home owners left behind. It served a purpose for awhile but it needs replacing (dont even think anyone on freecycle would want it, its that bad). Its not attached to the wall either, however it does tilt slightly forward and has bits of carpet underneath to keep it steady, and it hasnt fallen over yet either! I just wanted to make sure Ikea's particular wardrobes (being dirt cheap) had to be attached because they would definitely fall over.

If its not stable then you can tuck something small under the front legs still: I keep a few pieces of wood to cut up for this reason. Hardly visible, and much easier than drilling into the wall.

Culex

livalicious wrote: »

We thinking of getting these ones, so im not sure we could tuck in some hardboard underneath without it being noticeable:

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90121762

Couldn't you wrap a wooden plinth around the legs of Tacki or whatever that wardrobe is called?

Culex

pinkteapot wrote: »

As others have said, I've never bothered attaching a wardrobe to the wall. The only item I did bother with was a 6' bookcase as it was a cheapy Argos one and was so shallow that it would have toppled easily. A wardrobe on the other hand would take some effort to pull over.

Unless one is leaping from the top of the wardrobe onto the bed?

pookiewn

Ikea add wall attachments to most of their furniture, it's just to cover their backs I think! However, I've had two of those wardrobes (one with a slightly dodgy leg) on carpet and they never fell over

Alter_ego

Culex wrote: »

Unless one is leaping from the top of the wardrobe onto the bed?

Much better to use the chandelier!