How Not To Sell Flatpack Furniture
I recently bought a Teknik Kneeling Stool from Ryman.
As is shown by these pictures, I was able to put it together and the product looks the business.
But the pictures hide the big fault of the stool!
It has the worst set of instructions, I’ve ever seen for flat-pack, which are shown in this image.
Basically, it’s just a parts list and a vague layout.
- I had to have several goes to assemble it.
- Assembly is job for at least three hands.
- Some parts must be assembled before others and this is not indicated.
- A colour photograph of the finished product would have helped.
- I did catch my finger badly at one point.
But then I like puzzles and eventually solved it.
I shan’t be buying any more Teknik products.
Where Can I Try A Kneeling Chair In Or Near To London Before I Buy One?
For much of the last forty years, I’ve used a kneeling chair, as it takes the pressure of my left knee, which has been dodgy since my twenties. The wheels feel off the last one about a dozen years ago, before I moved here.
But my knee is giving me trouble and I need a new kneeling chair.
I generally don’t buy many things before I can try them and I certainly wouldn’t buy a kneeling chair without a few minutes test.
Imagine the hassle of after assembling it, trying to put it back in the box, if it had made my knee worse.
So does anybody know where I can try out a kneeling chair, anywhere between Birmingham and Brighton or Norwich and Bristol?
The Anonymous Widower 