Correctly assemble the cabinet with sliding doors

What you need:

• Allen key
• screwdriver
• hammer

In the case of a closet with sliding doors, you do not need to make sure that there is enough space in the room to open the door Doors allow. As a result, it can also be easily integrated into small rooms and also looks very homely in a study, for example.

Assemble the body of the cabinet

1. Most types of wardrobes are built on the same principle. First the body, then the door elements. Depending on whether you use normal folding doors or sliding doors, the construction will be easier or a little more complicated.
2. When it comes to the body of the cabinet, the floor element is usually built up first. It is important that you screw it - like the other elements - tight enough.
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3. The first side wall is then screwed or screwed onto the floor element. plugged. Some cabinet models require you to attach both screws and wooden pins. You should drive the wooden pins into the pre-drilled holes with a hammer hard enough.
4. If the cabinet is set up in such a way that one side wall first rests on the floor and then the If the base plate is attached, you must now erect the cabinet so that the base plate is on the floor stands.


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5. You should definitely do this in pairs. One slowly erects the side wall, the other holds the base plate and just as slowly guides it to the floor. If the base plate is not held, there is a risk that the wooden pins will break when the side part is erected, because the plate then hangs "in the air".
6. Now attach the ceiling of the cabinet on the upright side part. Depending on how high the cabinet is, you have to climb a ladder or a chair.
7. Then, while you hold the ceiling, someone else should push the second side part up to the base plate and ceiling so that the wooden pins or insert the screws exactly into the pre-drilled holes.
8. Finally, the back wall is attached to the cabinet with the small nails that are usually supplied.
9. You can now hang the sliding doors on the assembled body.

Attach sliding doors to PAX from IKEA

Fitting the sliding doors to the PAX models from IKEA is often not easy due to the incomplete assembly instructions at one point (as of September 2011). With the PAX LYNGDAL model, the glass and aluminum sliding doors also have to be assembled first. Even if you stand in front of the pile of aluminum braces and the packs of glass panes and wonder how they should be made into sliding doors, you shouldn't despair. The assembly of the doors is relatively easy.

1. It is important that you have enough space in a corner on the floor as you will need a 90 degree angle on two walls.
2. Once you have assembled the two individual door elements according to the instructions provided by IKEA, the harder part comes. The doors must be hung on the rails attached to the body.
3. With the door, which is hooked into the outer running track at the top and bottom, you must pay attention to one thing: The light gray plastic adjusting screws that are on the right and are located at the top left of the door element, both (!) - this is only specified for one side in the IKEA instructions - must be pushed up a little will.
4. Otherwise you will not be able to hang the door because the plastic element hits the rail on one side so that the door roller does not fit into the outer rail.
5. You should also hang in the doors with two people: while one person hangs the door, which is not very light, the other makes sure that it is correctly positioned on the outer or left side. inner running rail runs.

Building a cabinet with sliding doors is not always easy. Depending on the model, you should take at least half a day to a day for this so that you don't get into a rush.