[House] How to take apart the giant wardrobe

Robin Lee Powell rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org
Mon Aug 15 22:16:41 PDT 2016


Many parts of this use cam lock nuts and screws, aka knock-down
fasteners.

- remove all the shelves

- remove top decorative cover thingy; this means getting a decently
  high stepladder and undoing all the cam lock nuts.  The cover
  *does* seem to be able to stay in with them all undone, but
  someone nearby in case it comes down would probably be good

- remove the side decorative covery thingy; there's only one because
  the other is in the wardrobe (currently behind the toy bins)

- DO NOT try to unscrew/remove the top door track

- disconnect the bottom door track by unscrewing the 1-2 screws in
  the bottom of each section that are *NOT* cam nuts, the ones near
  the front edge; this will allow you to swing the doors outwards up
  into the air

- now that you can push the doors out, you can access the bottom
  track runners on the mirror door; unscrew those.  This might be
  weird because they are screwed into wood glue, but you kind of
  have to unscrew them because otherwise they'll be ripped out as
  you transport it

- on one wheel segment of each of the non-mirror doors, there's a
  ... thing ..., a small piece of metal, that stops the wheel from
  popping out of its track.  Remove those (one screw each).

- pop all the doors out of their tracks now and move them away.
  WARNING: They are heavy and tall.  They really need two people to
  move.  The mirror door is *VERY* heavy.

- remove the bottom track completely, now that the doors aren't
  holding it up

- the top track is attached to a wooden slat screwed into the top of
  the whole thing.  Disconnect by removing the 1-2 non-cam lock
  screws in each section on the ceiling.

  WARNING: it's super unstable when unscrewed, and very long; have
  someone there to hold on to it as you're unscrewing.

- unscrew the cam nuts, top and bottom, for the outermost wall of
  whichever part you want to start on.  As long as the back wall
  (the flimsy crap) is slotted into the top and bottom sections,
  removing this wall shouldn't affect anything else.

- unscrew the top cam nuts for the top slat, remove

- remove the back wall

- unscrew the bottom cam nuts for the floor slat, remove

- continue the last 4 steps until it's all in pieces



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