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crisavecLast fall I went shopping for a dresser, as I hadn't had one the whole time I lived here. RK Unfinished was closing, so we looked there for deals, and found a niceish dresser and went to purchase it but discovered the only ones they had left were part of a shipment still in the pipeline that hadn't arrived and would be 4-8 weeks out. I went ahead and paid for it, and we went on our merry way.
Fast forward 10 weeks, and I'm calling to ask whats going on with it. Turns out the shipment was delayed and would be another 4 weeks, and they could no longer do the stain and finish for me as the store was closed for good the following monday, but if I still wanted the dresser they could get it to me. I thought about it and said that yes I wanted it, so she credited back the stain/finish and told me she'd call me when it was in.
I finaly got the dresser sometime in early feb, and was looking for some place to do the finish but wasn't able to find a place. After not having any luck on this![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angie_di and I finally decided to do it this weekend on the porch. We picked a nice oak colored stain and some sealer and came home and unwrapped everything and discovered something....
2 of the 4 drawers broke the rails off as soon as we took them out! The wood the rails was screwed into was so flimsy that it felt like Balsa and it just snapped almost immediately. So now I'm stuck with a dresser thats missing two drawers, from a store that went out of business months ago!
ARGH!!!
I'm gonna try to repair them, but with as flimsy as the wood is I'm not holding my breath.
Fast forward 10 weeks, and I'm calling to ask whats going on with it. Turns out the shipment was delayed and would be another 4 weeks, and they could no longer do the stain and finish for me as the store was closed for good the following monday, but if I still wanted the dresser they could get it to me. I thought about it and said that yes I wanted it, so she credited back the stain/finish and told me she'd call me when it was in.
I finaly got the dresser sometime in early feb, and was looking for some place to do the finish but wasn't able to find a place. After not having any luck on this
angie_di and I finally decided to do it this weekend on the porch. We picked a nice oak colored stain and some sealer and came home and unwrapped everything and discovered something....2 of the 4 drawers broke the rails off as soon as we took them out! The wood the rails was screwed into was so flimsy that it felt like Balsa and it just snapped almost immediately. So now I'm stuck with a dresser thats missing two drawers, from a store that went out of business months ago!
ARGH!!!
I'm gonna try to repair them, but with as flimsy as the wood is I'm not holding my breath.
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Date: 2008-05-27 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-27 10:05 pm (UTC)They don't actually make the furniture...they just resell already made but unfinished furniture. I am going to complain to the builder though.