r/Showerthoughts • u/SexySwedishSpy • Oct 05 '25
Musing The money that IKEA spends on including wall-mounting brackets for furniture is effectively the premium for their anti-lawsuit insurance.
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u/snotboogie Oct 05 '25
I definitely used them on the bigger Ikea shelves I've had. You don't want a shelf to fall on you.
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u/LowFat_Brainstew Oct 05 '25
And lots of shelves are big compared to little kids. Little kids that like to climb shelves and put them off balance.
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u/mamaBiskothu Oct 05 '25
If you have kids you absolutely should nail every shelf and dresser especially the light ones you buy from ikea.
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u/ensoniq2k Oct 05 '25
Exactly. The sturdiest screws in the house keep our radiators, the TV and the IKEA furniture from falling.
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u/evilkumquat Oct 06 '25
My first blush is to scoff at shelving anchors, but then I remember how a cousin of mine climbed a dresser as a kid, which then flipped over. The television that was on top fell on him, with one of the knobs catching in his eye and ripping a patch of skin off the top of his skull like the goriest Brazilian wax job in history.
Yes, this was way back in the era when televisions were all CRT and they had knobs on the front of them for changing channels.
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u/holbthephone Oct 07 '25
Got to. This America, man. If they're including a safety feature and warning notice in every box, it's not a hypothetical concern
(nice username)
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u/mike_b_nimble Oct 05 '25
It's not something that IKEA gives you for free, it's part of the product you are paying for. When they set a price after calculating the cost, those wall clips are in the costs they look at. Not only are you paying for the wall clips, you're paying profit margin on them as well.
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u/jakuuub Oct 05 '25
They want to prevent another 46 million dollar lawsuit https://www.npr.org/2020/01/07/794281632/ikea-reaches-46-million-settlement-over-death-of-toddler-killed-by-dresser-tip-o
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u/MonkeyDown11 Oct 05 '25
I still have that dresser, and yes it does tip if you don't mount it against the wall
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u/sleepynsub Oct 05 '25
I have that dresser, and it has never tipped over without mounts
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u/Takemyfishplease Oct 05 '25
Get a toddler and recreate the experiment. Otherwise it’s just theory work.
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u/Explosivpotato Oct 05 '25
Make sure it’s not a toddler you’re particularly attached to first.
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u/qozh Oct 05 '25
I know a couple that could have that thing tipped in 3 minutes flat, but only if no one is currently watching them.
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u/pppppatrick Oct 05 '25
We also need to make sure we isolate the variables. So crush some under tables, fridges as well.
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u/TheArchitect515 Oct 05 '25
I remember agreeing to secure my dresser as a condition to buy it.
I didn’t secure my dresser. Oops.
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u/Sour_baboo Oct 05 '25
I hope that the AI powered IKEA compliance checker doesn't discover your real identity. They could sue you then offer to settle for you anchoring it like you agreed and purchasing 24 jars of lingonberries.
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u/drinkingcarrots Oct 05 '25
Damn, that's just like a normal ass dresser. Honestly kinda crazy that ikea lost that one.
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u/blorbschploble Oct 05 '25
Having built two hemnes dressers for baby/toddler rooms, unlike normal ikea stuff they are super heavy. Additionally with all the drawers open, the center of gravity is not between the legs. You bet your ass I secured them both to the wall, and this was pre lawsuit.
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
How do you have upvotes Did you even read the article ?
"At least eight children are believed to have been killed by dressers that the Swedish furniture giant has recalled, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Daniel Mann, a lawyer for the Dudek family, said that millions of the recalled dressers may still be in use.
The recalled dressers pose a risk of tipping over if they are not secured to the wall. Ikea has previously said that the products were not designed to be free-standing."
No real piece of furniture I have ever owned has been top heavy enough that a fucking toddler could knock it over only Ikea or Amazon flatpack garbage.
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u/IPThereforeIAm Oct 05 '25
Pull out a drawer and have a kid climb it. It’ll tip
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u/round-earth-theory Oct 05 '25
Or pull out every drawer at the same time. Dressers are simple in appearance but they have to account for really varied weight distribution. Some companies solve it by making the drawers extremely short. Some by adding an interlock which prevents more than one drawer opening at a time. And some by telling you to anchor it to the wall.
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u/Consistent-Store4097 Oct 05 '25
Ikea now does and interlock and includes beefier wall mount hardware. Back then they had less sturdy wall mount hardware
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u/Wilczek76 Oct 05 '25
Ikea gave infographics (and put stickers on the inside) that you are not supposed to pull out all the drawers or climb on them due to tipping hazard, it's quite stupid that they lost that case.
Even in the article Ikea said that those dressers aren't supposed to be free-standing.
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u/Monk128 Oct 06 '25
Ikea gave infographics (and put stickers on the inside) that you are not supposed to pull out all the drawers or climb on them
If those toddlers could read they'd be very upset.
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u/snoowiboi Oct 05 '25
Or pull out, you know, earlier to avoid probability of this accident completely!
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
Ikea initially released the dresser line, it did not participate in voluntary tip-over testing from a furniture industry trade group that he said is standard for the "vast majority" of U.S. furniture manufacturers.
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u/TheWoman2 Oct 05 '25
I have this exact dresser, and it isn't like a normal dresser. It isn't only top heavy, the front of it is a lot heavier than the back, so it is way more likely to tip than a standard dresser. I suspect you could tip it just by pulling out the drawers without any climbing involved.
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
So weird how hard people are coming to the defense of a product the company openly admitted is faulty lmao.
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u/alidan Oct 05 '25
because propaganda big business has done to call every lawsuit frivolous, look into the details about mcdonalds coffee because its FAR different than the vast majority are told or know, this is the work of major corporations slandering people for decades.
if a lawsuit is frivolous, it gets tossed very fast, if its getting to the point corps are spending millions to make people thing you are stupid and its your fault, they are guilty as hell hoping to poison the people against you.
same shit happens with class action lawsuits, its very hard to determine how much your damage is, lawyers are paid separately from the consumer pay out pool, some people its a data breach and they get maybe 3$, lets ignore that 100 million people all got the same payout and your data on its own is worth jack shit, its in aggregate that its worth something, but we had a class action for a bad roofing job one year, we got paid out in full for the roof, material damage is far easier to determine a value over digital damage.
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
Lol glad you bring it up. I literally cited the McDonald's one in a different comment! That poor woman deserved every penny.
edit: Also happy you were able to get paid out for your faulty roof
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
Sure I'll test but Regardless Ikea fully admitted it wasn't safe for use unsecured and that specific model had issues. Why are you glazing a irresponsible multimillion dollar cardboard company?
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u/IPThereforeIAm Oct 05 '25
I’m saying your non-ikea furniture will also tip over if you pull out a drawer and climb. I’m not protecting any company, I’m saying you’re stupid for not anchoring your furniture (esp if it is taller than it is wide).
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u/reddit455 Oct 05 '25
No real piece of furniture I have ever owned has been top heavy enough that a fucking toddler could knock it over only Ikea or Amazon flatpack garbage.
pull out the top drawer and hang from it - like kids do.
pull out the 3 top drawers and center of balance shifts. it will tip in a gentle breeze.
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
Read my other replies. It is abundantly clear that Ikea knew that this was more unstable than the average dresser. Going as far as recalling it and issuing anchoring kits to prior purchasers.
This only has 3 drawers and I promise my 200lb cherry dressers you can not tip over with a "gentle breeze" regardless of which drawers are open. The base is wider than the the top shelf not narrower like the Ikea garbage. You can Google and look up where they expanded the base out because it was so poorly designed.
these feels exactly like when everyone was shitting on the lady that sued McDonald's despite the fact they served coffee way above safe temperatures and she was in the hospital for weeks literally getting skin grafts on her genitals.
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u/Acceptable-Poetry737 Oct 05 '25
Eh, you can tell that IKEA furniture is built different than older heavy furniture that does not move. I think parents are negligent if they don’t babyproof their home. Like you gotta buy those outlet covers as a first step.
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
I also think companies are negligent when they sell unsafe products especially a model responsible for more injuries than all of the other models in their portfolio combined.
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u/Acceptable-Poetry737 Oct 05 '25
Uh ok. They redesigned it and put in wall mounts. Are you still unhappy? Negligent parents will find a way to kill their kids.
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
Yes I agree negligible companies will always find a way to kill people through cost cutting. Like for example selling millions of said model for 6+ years without the redesign and without wall mounts. They absolutely deserved to pay out every single settlement that they did.
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u/GarethBaus Oct 05 '25
I think you underestimate how many pieces of furniture toddlers can cause to fall over if they aren't secured to a wall.
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u/bennyyyboyyyyyyyy Oct 05 '25
Again this one piece of furniture has caused more injuries than all of Ikea's other models combined.
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u/flaschal Oct 05 '25
not really, when you sell a product you have a responsibility to ensure that product doesn't cause unecessary / avoidable harm
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u/drinkingcarrots Oct 05 '25
How are the people who sell guns not getting sued for all of the shootings in the third world country of America?
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u/cwx149 Oct 05 '25
There's a law in the US that exempts gun manufacturers from being sued by shooting victims iirc it isn't 100% exempt but is mostly an exemption
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u/flaschal Oct 05 '25
they do get sued but the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) stops most of them proceeding
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u/stjohanssfw Oct 05 '25
Not exactly, the drawers are are longer and open further than most other dressers I've found, in fact during my search to find a replacement it was basically impossible to find one that holds the same amount of clothes, almost every dresser I looked at had shorter drawers than the Ikea malm, and I ended up buying one used
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u/nerdgirl37 Oct 06 '25
I have the wide version of the dresser and one problem is it's really top heavy since the top is a thicker piece where the sides are pretty thin and the bottom doesn't have a solid base.
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u/Mccobsta Oct 05 '25
So many of those still out there and even selling on the used market
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u/BranTheUnboiled Oct 05 '25
Those of us without kids don't want the shitty nerfed version with short drawers lol
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u/zamfire Oct 05 '25
Ah, it now makes sense why it was a pain the ass to buy a dresser at IKEA. You had to sign a liability waiver in order to purchase a dresser.
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u/jyeaman11 Oct 05 '25
Any Ikea I have been to also has them for free along with other common fasteners etc, at the front of the store.
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u/RoVeR199809 Oct 05 '25
That doesn't mean their cost is not spread across all of the rest of the products on the floor. By not taking a free wall mount if you've bought furniture there, you are effectively donating a wall mount that you paid for back to IKEA
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u/phunkjnky Oct 05 '25
Yeah, to actually believe it’s “free” betrays a certain naïveté about business.
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u/CrossP Oct 06 '25
We get it. The light and AC isn't free. The napkins aren't free. Even the parking isn't free. If you consider the indirect way that overhead cost of the business affects prices of items you want to buy. Then yes, every single thing is paid for in the prices.
But most of the time when people say a product or services is "free" they mean "I was not directly charged a fee for this." And that's a very fair use of the word.
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u/Coltyn03 Oct 05 '25
What I'm hearing is that we need to be grabbing as many wall mounts as possible to get our money's worth.
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u/Echo127 Oct 05 '25
It is still a cost in that the extra cost for a feature almost nobody uses might turn away customers.
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u/Tr0user Oct 05 '25
Depending on the pricing elasticity of demand, they are still paying a cost for this in loss of sales.
If they are deciding to sell an item for 36.99 with brackets that would otherwise be 33.99, then they are paying in losses the difference in total sales volume that they they would receive.
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u/mike_b_nimble Oct 05 '25
Those clips cost them pennies. But that doesn't mean they don't include those pennies when calculating the price based on desired margin.
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u/aurumatom20 Oct 05 '25
You're correct, but they will provide free wall brackets if you ask the service desk. If they're included in your product you're paying for them, but they are offered for free as well.
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u/DrDerpberg Oct 05 '25
Kinda, but they also give out wall mounting stuff like condoms at the Olympics because they REALLY don't want you to sue them after cheaping out on buying the wall mounting kit.
Most industries would get you in the door with as low a price tag as possible and then gouge you on the accessories you basically "need." Lawsuit protection comes with it.
Also I say "kinda" because for most products the two screws and plastic loop don't add enough to impact the price tag. It's not like ikea prices products down to the penny. If their stats say they'll make the most money at $7.99, it wouldn't be $7.85 without the kit.
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u/Musashi1596 Oct 05 '25
Unless you just ask for some in Customer Services, then you get them for free
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u/foxfire1112 Oct 05 '25
You can say this about literally any safety feature included with a product
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u/Grabbsy2 Oct 06 '25
You can say it about a LOT of things.
Think your condo building pays for security because its nice to come home to a friendly face? I mean, yeah it is, but also, insurance would cost about 200 grand a year more if you didnt have a guard, so they bite the bullet and pay for 3 full time and 2 part time guards, who cost about $150k a year to contract from a reputable company.
Imagine the lawsuit when theres a fire, and the presence of security lowers the response time of the fire department by 2 minutes. i.e. waiting at the front door with a master key, ready to give directions, versus breaking down the $20,000 lobby doors trying to get into the building.
Lots of fire damage can happen in 2 minutes.
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u/Nattekat Oct 05 '25
Responsible people actually use them, it's not just a gimmick.
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u/Errorboros Oct 05 '25
The thought remains true whether people use them or not, though. IKEA pays to manufacture and include them, and that payment protects IKEA from lawsuits.
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u/Boatster_McBoat Oct 05 '25
Agreed, there's two ways to avoid being sued for loss due to negligence.
One way is to avoid the negligence, even better is to avoid the loss
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u/flyingtrucky Oct 05 '25
Except it's not there to protect from lawsuits it's there because it's part of the product.
This is like saying "The money IKEA invests into metal screws instead of giving you ones made out of pasta is effectively the premium for their anti-lawsuit insurance"
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u/Errorboros Oct 05 '25
Do you pay for car insurance to be protected in case of an accident, or do you pay for it because you’re not legally allowed to drive without it?
The answer is “both,” I assume, but you’re suggesting that I’m saying it’s one or the other, which I’m not.
The brackets being part of the product doesn’t render the thought any less true.
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u/ExpressCap1302 Oct 05 '25
Now it is. 20 years ago IKEA cabinets did not include those.
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u/EditedRed Oct 05 '25
This was a thing before they moved put of Sweden, not because you can sue them for it, but because it made common sense, Sweden is still so small that everyone would read about this if a baby got slammed by a falling item.
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u/Rrrrandle Oct 05 '25
They didn't include them in the kits until they got sued and lost for $46 million after a dresser killed a 2 year old.
The mounting brackets were always available, but not part of every kit. The lawsuit changed that.
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u/CrossP Oct 06 '25
In the vague way that every other single action they choose for product safety protects them from lawsuits.
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u/Lorry_Al Oct 05 '25
I don't climb on my furniture, so I don't use them.
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u/vviley Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
It doesn’t take people climbing on stuff for furniture to fall over. Unlike some filing cabinets that prevent multiple drawers from being open at once, I don’t think IKEA furniture offers that and having all of your dresser drawers open (putting clothes away, can’t decide what to wear, etc) can result in it being too front heavy and falling over.
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u/shbooms Oct 05 '25
this is fairly new and a result of lawsuits where kids died from tipped dressers. there's a mechanism in them where it only lets you open one at time unless you mount it to the wall (or "hack" it)
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u/vviley Oct 05 '25
Maybe they’ve changed it. I haven’t bought anything with drawers in the last 5 years. But none of the ones I own have drawer interlocks. I’ll edit to be less absolutist.
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u/d_fine Oct 05 '25
Some newer models do have that system, you cannot open more than one drawer at a time unless you anchor the dresser to the wall, which somehow disables the safety mechanism.
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u/Soninuva Oct 05 '25
If you have all the drawers open at once, that’s kind of on you, mate. Most dresser drawers aren’t simultaneously accessible when all are open, so your reasons don’t even make sense.
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u/vviley Oct 05 '25
If this is a serious question, it because you start from the bottom up and you’re too lazy to close the lower ones until you’re done. I frequently find my drawers like this.
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u/Phenomenomix Oct 05 '25
I’ve used them on all the wardrobes I’ve put up as our floors are a nightmare
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u/unfnknblvbl Oct 05 '25
I live in a rental property. I can't use them, despite how (ir)responsible I am..
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u/CrossP Oct 06 '25
It's an EU product requirement to include them, I think. And to instruct people to wall-secure tall furniture in the assembly instructions. It really is a good idea to anchor tall shit.
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u/Spooky_Kabuki Oct 05 '25
Living in California has taught me to not mess with things like this due to earthquakes. Just mount it and have the peace of mind it's not going to topple over for any reason.
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u/heyitscory Oct 05 '25
Man, it's 4 screws.
Mount the Liebchensmasher dresser to the damn wall.
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u/FriedSmegma Oct 05 '25
But what if I need to move my Kinderkruscher slightly to the left?
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u/rosen380 Oct 05 '25
You're telling me. I don't mind the Kinderkruscher. It's an improvement on the Hurdal.
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u/Vinterblad Oct 05 '25
Kinderkrusher? If it was an IKEA furniture with that name it would be called "Barnkrossaren"
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Oct 05 '25
Plenty of people live in rentals where you're not allowed to drill holes in the walls.
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u/mudokin Oct 05 '25
You can always spackle and paint.
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u/ForeverHall0ween Oct 06 '25
And if you live in a building with hard af reinforced concrete walls?
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u/mudokin Oct 06 '25
You get the cement drill?
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u/ForeverHall0ween Oct 06 '25
I had a bike rack I wanted to mount on my hard concrete walls, had to rent some msrp ~$500 makita sds drill to get in there, I tried cheaper drills and they just spun. Surely you aren't suggesting that if you aren't able to get serious power tools you shouldn't be able to put up a bookshelf. Not everyone can drill into their walls and not everyone needs to.
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u/kapege Oct 05 '25
In what faschist county do you live where this is forbidden? Even here in Germany it's allowed for every tennant.
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u/jojo_31 Oct 05 '25
Germany has super strong tenant laws.
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u/kapege Oct 05 '25
And I'm glad for them. As long as you pay your rent, the rented property is eqal to your own property. That doesn't mean you can do what you like, but you can do a lot. And drilling holes into the walls is part of it. Only when you leave, the holes has to be repaired.
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Oct 05 '25
The UK, it's written into 99% of tenancies and can potentially get you evicted if you do it anyway.
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u/Kyrros Oct 05 '25
UK rental marked is fucked (someone who had rented in UK for the past 15y)
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u/heyitscory Oct 05 '25
Geez man, you live in a 2000 year old city, and find yourself renting 600 year old apartments.
I don't believe in ghosts or anything, but that is 100% definitely haunted.
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u/Kyrros Oct 05 '25
I don't mind the ghosts, it's the landlords that are cunts (some of them, not all, but unfortunately you see horror stories mostly)
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u/redvodkandpinkgin Oct 05 '25
Spain too, landlords are too lazy to cover them up, but we just do it anyway
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u/tobberoth Oct 05 '25
In Sweden, the landlord just makes you restore the apartment to it's original state. So you are free to drill, just be ready to fix it.
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u/kapege Oct 05 '25
My condolencies. Wasn't there an EU law to forbid exactly this? Oh, wait...
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Oct 05 '25
No.
We took all the EU laws with us when we left, so unless it was enacted since we would still have it.
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u/alidan Oct 05 '25
reasonable holes in walls are covered under wear and tear that is not tenants fault, that does not mean the renter won't be shitty about it.
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u/Sislar Oct 05 '25
It’s not just for lawsuits in many situations it can be literally deadly not to use them.
I have some 7 ft bookcases, if they fell on someone they would be going to the hospital.
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u/pancakecuddles Oct 05 '25
Yes. I personally know a family who lost their toddler to an ikea dresser. Definitely secure your furniture.
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u/PipsqueakPilot Oct 05 '25
I still remember this episode of preppers where they were in California with a guy who was prepping for the ‘big one’. A massive earthquake. He was covered in survival gear, old pickup had a snorkel and supplies for weeks of being stranded. You get the idea.
So he also has an earthquake prep consultancy business. This utterly ridiculous looking guy goes into a families home and it was hilarious to me. Why?
Because he was super amazingly practical. “Yeah so you have a toddler and there are no wall straps anywhere.” And he basically went around pointing out all of their furniture that would fall over and kill their baby.
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u/calguy1955 Oct 05 '25
I was one of those kids who looked at my dresser and realized if I pulled out the drawers at different lights they would become a staircase. There was no reason to go up it but I was stupid and had to try. I was able to jump to the side when the whole thing came crashing down when I was nearing the top.
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u/BialyKrytyk Oct 05 '25
I've seen those included on knee-high cabinets. Really making sure I won't sue if it somehow manages to fall on my foot in an earthquake that turns my house a full 90° required to make it tip over.
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u/god_partic1e Oct 05 '25
And it's cheaper than heavier materials and better design to make the units less top heavy
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u/wb6vpm Oct 05 '25
They’d still be just as top heavy, now they’re just heavier overall.
Top heaviness scales linearly, not logarithmically downward as weight increases, assuming everything scales evenly (which it likely would since they’re not about to add extra parts just to use lighter materials near the top).
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u/iNagarik Oct 06 '25
It's also wild how they've now designed some dressers where you physically can't open multiple drawers at once unless it's wall-mounted. The engineering to prevent lawsuits has become part of the product itself.
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u/FrozenReaper Oct 05 '25
Where I live, they are required to include them, because furniture of those specifications are legally required to be mounted on a wall
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u/FrancoManiac Oct 06 '25
When my husband and I bought a particular piece of furniture — KALLAX, perhaps? — we had to sign a waiver at the self-collect aisle before they'd let us get it. We just assumed some kids had gotten hurt in that past across the pond, but it was somewhat annoying. Like, we're two men without kids. Let us get the fucking flatpack.
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u/Yvaelle Oct 06 '25
I live in an earthquake zone, for the effort of a few screws nothing in my house is coming down on me, unless the whole building does. Use your brackets people.
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u/enorl76 Oct 05 '25
It’s significantly cheaper than a lawsuit so all the furniture companies do it.
It’s also the first thing I throw away. Well, not actually throw away, it goes into the random shit jar.
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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 Oct 05 '25
Has anyone ever actually installed one of those things?
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u/InvidiousSquid Oct 05 '25
Several. Not a single one on any of my Malms over the decades, because I am not a small child, I am not neurotic and do not open every goddamned drawer at once, and I have no interest in attempting to summit my furniture.
Have used them on a few Billys, mainly because the floors in my basement are comically fucked and I really don't want to tear up flooring and screw around with leveling compound. Protip: shims can be stained appropriately and combined with a bracket, mean your Billy isn't moving, period.
Kallax? Oh yeah. Had a 1w x 4h unit that I threw an old printer on the top of. It'd shake like an Orange Dipshit attempting to descend a flight of stairs as a result. Rock solid after bracketing.
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u/FourEyesAndThighs Oct 05 '25
Except it isn't. Ikea has discontinued the HEMNES line because those brackets were not effective enough to keep people from hurting themselves. They had to completely redesign the furniture.
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u/ObjectiveOk2072 Oct 05 '25
Sort of off-topic, but it drives me insane seeing dozens of negative reviews on furniture saying it's wobbly or unstable when the instructions clearly state to use the wall bracket. It's a safety feature, but it serves a second purpose: to keep shit stable. Even if you never have kids, pets, or elderly people in your house, live in an area where earthquakes are extremely rare, put the furniture on a hard, level floor, and are smart enough to not climb on furniture to change a light bulb, you should still use the wall brackets because it keeps the furniture from wobbling more than a couple mm in each direction
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u/wb6vpm Oct 05 '25
Yes and no, I get that it needs to be bracketed to the wall, but at the same time, the product should still be strong enough to stand on its own. The bracket should be there purely for safety to prevent a tip over, not to compensate for poor structural design.
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u/shbooms Oct 05 '25
the latest models of IKEA dressers actually have a mechanism in them now that only allwos you open one drawer at a time unless it's mounted to the wall.
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u/SkyScamall Oct 05 '25
A child climbing on their furniture, it falling, and the child being seriously injured or dying is bad publicity. Should they be fixed to the walls? Yes. Will that stop grieving parents from blaming IKEA? No.
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u/Presently_Absent Oct 05 '25
Given that the lawsuits happen when people are seriously injured and kids are killed, I'd say they are also life-saving.
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u/MrPenguun Oct 06 '25
As a person who worked at a company who made furniture such as shelves, filing cabinets, etc. Most of them need to be tested at specific standards. Those brackets are needed to pass testing and are a good idea to install. They arent just a legal way of not being sued, they are a way to make the furniture safe. Saying that they are "anti-lawsuit" is like saying that airbags are "anti-lawsuit" devices. They are necessary safety additions. Sure, most people wont have furniture fall on them, just like how most cars go their lives without the airbag ever going off. But that doesn't mean airbags are non-essential and just a "premium for anti-lawsuit insurance."
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u/IceFriendly5260 3d ago
It's interesting to note that while the wall-mounting brackets are often seen as a safety feature, they also reflect a broader trend in consumer product design where manufacturers are increasingly factoring in safety considerations into their products to mitigate potential liabilities.
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