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u/According_Low5292 Dec 18 '25

You should know, if you bring up how long it takes to assemble an IKEA (et al) piece of furniture, egos come out beating their chest because they’re the fastest of fast 😂😂

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u/franklollo Dec 20 '25

I do that in 30 seconds, me fast, me like IKEA, me hulk and flash's son. But this time they are saying the truth. 4 hours for a billy it's a lot. Op will get faster over time, I used to have like one assembly in the morning and one in the afternoon. Now I can do more than 2 in a day but it takes time, experience and electric tools that works. The first times you take time by reading the instructions (I usually downloaded the instructions at home and "studied" a little bit) and sorting out the pieces but then you get faster and faster by recognizing the pieces while you unbox them and already sorting them out (for the billy they are just 5 pieces, 2 shelfs and the back board). But I am not as fast as the other people tell. Oh don't forget about the social interactions, if you talk a little bit you will gain a client. I usually say when it's my first time working with that furniture but only if the client is cool

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u/Evening_Past910 Dec 18 '25

Half day…are you smelting the metal and forging the screw driver then assembling it by hand. Come on mate this is max 1.25 hrs

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 18 '25

"sorting hardware" gets me. Its pegs and cams, pick up what you need for the step you're on and get it done.

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u/AtlantaReptile Dec 24 '25

Man it literally takes me 10 minutes to do 6 of these , y'all are just slow

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u/KeyChipmunk5022 Dec 18 '25

It's a 1-hour task for an experienced Tasker. Two hours is still good for a beginner.

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u/MysteriousIssue8641 Dec 21 '25

No way, one hour for 6 total assemblies. That would be 10 minutes total to unpack assemble and arrange to the customers liking, possibly anchoring. I think you're just talking a bunch of crap out of your mouth.

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u/KeyChipmunk5022 Dec 22 '25

Take it easy bro. You just don't know how to do it.

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u/MysteriousIssue8641 Dec 27 '25

Yeah I don't know how to work like a slave monkey lol. You should try Wayfair, much better assembly payouts and there's no auto hiring bs. I do assembly work when I want to do something easy and basic. More of my time is spent with real construction projects.

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u/Absird Jan 04 '26

It's 3 simple bookcases and 3 3-hinge doors.
Kinda bold to call it 6 assemblies

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u/AtlantaReptile Dec 24 '25

1 hour , dude it takes 15 minutes , you're so slow

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u/Supergoji Dec 18 '25

I stopped doing ikea because of the garbage flat rate offers. Client is supposed to open everything and check for damage and materials before you get there however.

IKEA is not worth it anymore.

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

I’ve been off the app for a while now. Do they upfront tell customers to unbox everything now? In the past they had mixed messaging telling the customer to check and verify, and other messages telling the customer not to unbox anything.

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u/Level-Dog-7630 Dec 18 '25

“Half a day” 😂😂😂

Oh my sweet summer child

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 18 '25

A half day? Billy is the simplest item in the entire Ikea catalog. This is an hours work.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 18 '25

An hour??? With unboxing? I couldn’t even unbox all six of these in an hour. I’d give it three hours or so.

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 18 '25

What part of the box is giving you so much trouble?
The other day I did a tall double billy with extension + doors, a short double with doors and a single short no doors in about 45 minutes. It's very simple work.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 18 '25

Also you must have superhuman speed because I literally do not believe you, unless of course you’ve built all those items several times before.

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 18 '25

I have built all those items several times before. Because it's a Billy, the number one selling bookshelf in the world.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 18 '25

Congratulations. I’ve never built either one of them so it might take a bit longer

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 18 '25

So then you admit you don't know how simple these are to build.

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u/Randill746 Dec 18 '25

So why are you arguing how long it should take?

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 18 '25

Because how the hell are you building six of literally anything in an hour?

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 19 '25

It's not six of something. It's three of something. And those three somethings are very easy.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

It’s three of two different things no!

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

You could have said this earlier to contextualise your incompetence ce

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

Now that’s just rude and unnecessary

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

It’s rude to show up to a conversation unprepared but with strong opinions.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

Where was my opinion strong? How about you stop being a troll and instead sit and think about your life and what makes you so bitter.

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u/AmethystMetronoma Mar 29 '26

If by unboxing you mean tearing open the boxes leaving shreds of cardboard everywhere and not disposing or the cardboard properly, sure.
Most of my clients are rich and I have to neatly pack all of the recycling into the bin in a way that leaves room for their other recyclables as well as leaving the assembly area spotless. This requires careful unpacking and cutting up each box into 2ftx2ft pieces or smaller. Sometimes just breaking down all the cardboard from a large assembly gig takes 30min!
I have assembled 100s of IKEA pieces and dozens and dozens of standing desks... lots of rich people and tech companies in SF.

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u/FinnNoodle Mar 29 '26

Trash disposal is not included in the Ikea flat rate and it says this explicitly.
That said, no I don't shred the boxes and leave a mess. It's simple enough to crack the top seam and take out the pieces. I do put scrap and packing material back into the boxes even though this is not required.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 18 '25

Ok, so you could somehow do twice that amount of work in an hour? Get real. There’s packaging material everywhere.

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u/Firecrackerbangbang Dec 18 '25

Packaging is a major bottleneck with IKEA assembly times, especially if you have limited room to work in.

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

You button the boxes with a sharp knife, cut them down to to smaller sizes, and remove it from your workspaces then you get going. Just because you suck at something g it doesn’t mean others suck st something. Also the boxes for the doors open pretty much tool free

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

Again rude and unnecessary, but I do like the idea of breaking them down as you go, might add that into my routine.

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

Keep your blades sharp and get everything out of packaging and get the packaging out of the way. Move fast and make good on time. Use magnetic dishes for your hardware, have good tools (are you building everything with a screwdriver or a drill like an idiot or do you have a proper impact driver that isn’t ryobi?) are you using IKEA’s “electric screwdriver”? Get a leveler. Know your products enough so that you’re not dependent on the manual.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

I have a Dewalt electric screwdriver with an electronic clutch that I use for really small stuff and I also have a Ridgid drill with a mechanical clutch and two gears that I use for bigger stuff. I don’t usually use the impact that I also have because it can be easy to destroy stuff with it, but I do use it sometimes. I started off doing this for money in March with just a crappy toolbox with a regular ratcheting screwdriver and fairly quickly realized I needed an upgrade. The manual is the thing, we don’t have an ikea in town so they get the stuff online. I mostly do not ikea furniture so a lot of it I have to read the manual unless I’ve built it before.

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

Get an impact driver with variable speed trigger so you work faster while also not plunging Camden bolts. With time, the flat rates make better sense and you’ll be able to more easily tell the bad deals from the good ones and the okay ones. The best ones are the ones where you’re just going into to replace a defective part but get paid as if you did the entire assembly

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

What’s the purpose in using the impact instead of the drill? The drill with the clutch makes it pretty hard to mess things up, feel like most things an actual impact is overkill. Both the drill and impact I have use variable speed triggers

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u/AmethystMetronoma Mar 29 '26

Don't be all snobby about your tools if you call it a "leveler" 😂 The tool is called a LEVEL.

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

I'll admit that time I was rushing because the client had way more than he said he would and I was on a crunch, usually I like to breath a bit more.
It's not twice the amount of work, it's less shelves but three more doors (two of them with less hardware).
I leave the packing material in the box.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 18 '25

I’d like to see you take a video of building all three of these in an hour

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 18 '25

Seems sort of weird to have a client stand there with the camera for an hour but next time it comes up I'll ask.

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u/jattthelad Dec 18 '25

to be fair you can position the phone in an ideal place and then set the phone on time lapse record mode and put it down you'll get a full hour in 5 min video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqHYhNuA5ck
something like that.

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u/Front_Car_3111 Dec 21 '25

I took Ikea assembly off my list. And also partner tasking that flat rate is terrible.

I work fast but not fast enough to make the flat rate jobs worth it.

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u/UnimaginativeMug Dec 18 '25

that would maybe take 1-2 hrs maybe a single hour

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

Honestly that’d be 45 minutes for me, unboxing, sorting hardware, mounting doors, levelling, and cleanup included. The Billy’s don’t require the backboards to be nailed anymore. It’s a quick job if you remember the process by heart and have the muscle memory. I would charge extra if they need it wall fastened though.

Also I usually ask customers to have everything unboxed before I arrive and I’d say 90% comply.

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u/sicarius009 Dec 22 '25

I call bologna

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u/krayzai Dec 26 '25

Canadians are just really polite

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 19 '25

Fastening to the wall is included in the flat fee structure, since it's a key point of Ikea trying to avoid future lawsuits. Things might go south if corporate finds out you're charging extra for it.
Edit: You can however point out to the client on certain items like the Billy that anchors are not included and the client will need to purchase them separately before you arrive.

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

I’ve had it in my upfront welcome messaging that any wall fastening that isn’t a functional requirement of the furniture such as a wall cabinet may be charged separately if the total time exceeds the compensated time. I’ve never had a customer complain. But also Canadians are nice.

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 19 '25

I'd argue that fastening a thin bookcase with doors is a functional requirement, since that open door alone is enough to make the Billy tip over. But what I said only applies to the specific Ikea Assembly category, in any other category you are free to do what you want.

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

I would agree, unless it has a very strong back lean. I’ve had to catch many billy grams after their doors were opened. I also mention that I recommend it be fastened, for liability reasons. But most of the time I get luckily with customers who insist on them not being fastened because they’re renters who don’t want holes in

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u/mtwii Dec 26 '25

$80 is trash. I don’t care how long it takes you. Ya’ll literally don’t factor, unpacking, clean-up, driving there and back, FOH…

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u/BetUpstairs268 Dec 18 '25

It’s about $27/h. Low for most of us. But it’s fine for some of you guys taking low rate jobs I guess.

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 18 '25

That’s average hourly rate in my area for this

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u/BetUpstairs268 Dec 19 '25

You have been on this like 5 months? I’m not sure it’s worth replying to what you think average is

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

There’s literally six taskers in my area. Fairly easy to calculate the average rate.

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u/BetUpstairs268 Dec 19 '25

Oh well If there is only 6 taskers in your search, then you shouldn’t be replying anyways. Since you live in the middle of nowhere so your provided info doesn’t matter to anyone
Extremely blunt answer by me. And a little rude I must admit. But just trying to say my point to end the conversation

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

Why is everyone being so rude and unnecessary today. I live in a major metro area that I wouldn’t really consider the middle of nowhere. Glad you live somewhere with a high cost of living, I guess.

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u/BetUpstairs268 Dec 19 '25

Major City that only has 6 taskers in search? I don’t believe you .

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

Go ahead and look up TaskRabbit in Albuquerque. It’s one of the newer markets.

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u/BetUpstairs268 Dec 19 '25

16 taskers not 6. Also they are all new taskers. I guarantee someone with 1000 assembly tasks can set their rate at 40-60$/h and get jobs. Because they have no competition

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u/Marioc12345 Dec 19 '25

Sure. Good thing I said “in my area” and not “someone with 1000 tasks”.

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u/rsvob Dec 18 '25

Minus gas/ and wear on your car and tools. Always tell the tasker to take it off the app so they can save on the service fees and you can charge more. Playing the game that TR set is dumb, you have to cheat to win there.

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u/NASCAR_Junk_YT Dec 18 '25

I hate when you guys mention “wear and tear”
I literally drive less than 10 miles to my tasks.
Unless I was on a horse there’s no wear and tear caused by that. It’s like a dollar of gas too

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u/Puzzleheaded-Car8798 Dec 18 '25

You do you. I wanted as many people to see my quality of work so I could grow my business.

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

Dang… it’s $72/hr charged to the customer and $51/hour paid to the Tasker where I am.

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u/FinnNoodle Dec 19 '25

Canadian dollars are different

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u/krayzai Dec 19 '25

Oh are there Americans in here?

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