IKEA Stolmen Furniture

[tc4332]

The support poles have flat plates at the top that ideally are screwed through the ceiling plaster into the ceiling joists. The base plate can be screwed to the floor.
As is usual things can only be as good as they are designed to be if used/fitted correctly.
SWMBO is always telling me that I over engineer whenever I do things. Where builders hammer nails in I screw.

As for self build, that is probably what we will have to do if nobody comes up with anything.

[mattylondon]

Key clamps and tube. Lots of fittings and tube size to select from and fairly cheap. Have built a few pieces of furniture in the past with good results.

Here's a part finished table

[Delboy]

Originally Posted by mattylondon

Key clamps and tube. Lots of fittings and tube size to select from and fairly cheap. Have built a few pieces of furniture in the past with good results.

Here's a part finished table

Great product for that stuff too, practically indestructible.

[mattylondon]

Originally Posted by Delboy

practically indestructible.

Indeed! That table had 48mm steel tube, needed two people to lift it

We built two identical with tempered glass tops. £150 each if I recall.

[tc4332]

A lot of years ago, when we were still relatively young (honestly there was a time when even I was young) I had been away in Europe driving tour coaches for about eight weeks.
When I returned home SWMBO had decorated the bathroom. She had mounted two shelves which involved hammer drill into breeze block wall, rawplugging and screwing.
Those shelves are still on the wall. She takes them down for decorating and refits them.
She claims that she learnt how to do it from watching me.
Really good having a wife that can change fuses, the old type where you replace the wire, and she fits her own plugs safely

[The_Laird]

Originally Posted by tc4332

A lot of years ago, when we were still relatively young (honestly there was a time when even I was young) I had been away in Europe driving tour coaches for about eight weeks.
When I returned home SWMBO had decorated the bathroom. She had mounted two shelves which involved hammer drill into breeze block wall, rawplugging and screwing.
Those shelves are still on the wall. She takes them down for decorating and refits them.
She claims that she learnt how to do it from watching me.
Really good having a wife that can change fuses, the old type where you replace the wire, and she fits her own plugs safely

Careful Ray, you sound pretty close to surplus to requirements!

My SWMBO won't even wash her own car!

[tc4332]

It is al down to training

Seriously, I know that I am lucky, and I have an unusual model with all the updates and mods factory fitted. She has all the good bits that none of her sisters have. But then her Mother was very good to me.

I don't have to wash her either

[Delboy]

Originally Posted by tc4332

The support poles have flat plates at the top that ideally are screwed through the ceiling plaster into the ceiling joists. The base plate can be screwed to the floor.
As is usual things can only be as good as they are designed to be if used/fitted correctly.
SWMBO is always telling me that I over engineer whenever I do things. Where builders hammer nails in I screw.

As for self build, that is probably what we will have to do if nobody comes up with anything.

I bet your stuff doesn't normally fall off the wall though does it.

My motto is do it nice or do it twice

[oldnick]

I presume you mean that the bits you want are unavailable i the UK as they still sell this system ~I think

have you tried the ikeahackers.net site?

[tc4332]

I have tried ikeahacks but withoutb any joy. They only show the ads from fleebay etc.
IKEA do not stock it in UK anymore, I have a friend that works for them, that was my first call. Plenty in the States, but for the couple of bits I want USA and fleebay are too expensive.
Looks like it will have to be a scaffolding pole job.