3 Things You Need When It’s Time To Build Some Furniture

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We’ve all been to IKEA, Argos or any other store that sells furniture. It’s the exciting part of renovating your home or remodelling a specific room. The old furniture gets chucked out, and some new (and much more stylish) stuff is brought in. 

These days, almost every store will sell your furniture disassembled. It comes in many parts, and your job is to build it at home. This task can vary in how frustrating it is, yet you can guarantee it’ll be way easier if you have the right things to hand. Don’t embark on another furniture-building mission unless you have all three of these things: 

Lots Of Different Screws

Every piece of furniture you ever build will provide all the screws needed for the job. Regardless, it’s always useful to have plenty of spare wood screws in all shapes and sizes. You never know when you might need one – what if the manufacturer accidentally included one less screw in the pack? Instead of waiting for a replacement or travelling back down to IKEA, you can use your spare screws to find a suitable switch. 

The same goes for cases when a screw breaks or if one doesn’t fit particularly well. Your spare collection will always come in handy, and you’ll question why you never had one to begin with! 

A Simple Power Drill

After spending a few hours manually screwing 50+ screws into your child’s new bed frame, you’ll start to wish you had a power drill. It does the screwing job without hurting your hands and ensures you can get more screws embedded in a fraction of the time. 

Will you need it for every screw? No – and we’ll talk about a specific type of screw in a moment – but it always helps with screws that don’t already have a deep hole for you to use. In other words, any screw without brackets or bolts or when you have to make the hole yourself. The added pressure from the power drill lets you bore down with ease. 

An Allen Key Set

Can you remember the last time you built a piece of furniture that didn’t include Allen key bolts/screws? Furniture manufacturers love this, and they usually give you an Allen key to help construct their product. 

There’s just one problem: these keys are almost always bent at right angles, making them the most inconvenient things on the planet. You have to tighten a bolt with an Allen key that can’t make a full turn because its shape means you’re banging into part of the furniture. That’s why you need an Allen key set – preferably one with different shapes and sizes, allowing you to pick the perfect tool for every bolt. It genuinely speeds up the furniture-building processes and prevents a lot of frustration. 

Maybe you’re moving family homes or perhaps your child’s bedroom is due an update. Either way, you are preparing to make many pieces of new furniture (while also taking apart the old stuff). Make your life easier by getting these three things and keeping them tucked away in your toolbox.