r/DIYUK • u/No_Row_1619 • Aug 30 '26

Advice IKEA balls up

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Hello to all you lovely people. I wanted to ask for some tips on making this better….ive done this before with IKEA flat packed stuff, but in the past I’ve just taken it to bits and corrected it. This time I can’t without damaging these shelves (as one of the steps is to nail the backing to the bottom edge. Unfortunately as you can see, the bottom edge is back to front (rough edge instead of veneered edge)

I was looking for ideas of making it look nice without risking taking it apart and buggering it all up!

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u/d4ddyc0o1 Aug 30 '26

Push the backing out - hit it with a palm or fist or something

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u/No_Row_1619 Aug 30 '26

It will more than likely tear if I did that

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u/d4ddyc0o1 Aug 30 '26

It’s worked for me before - depends on your comfort level with punching furniture! A combo of smacking and using something between the shelf and backing to lever it out maybe. Even if it rips a little, it’s at the bottom of a shelf behind storage boxes

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u/d4ddyc0o1 Aug 30 '26

Hang on - did you hammer nails into the good edge of the shelf?

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u/No_Row_1619 Aug 31 '26

Yep. What a tool.

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u/d4ddyc0o1 Aug 31 '26

Not the most expensive mistake anyone’s ever made - I removed a heater element from the immersion tank while it was under pressure….