I have assembled lot of furniture on my ikea student days so I was no stranger assembling this simple furniture. But as I was doing the final steps on the assembly by screwing the top board with the wood screw; the screw somehow did not go any deeper and ended up chewing up the hole. Lucky it was only one screw but that tells me the wood was too weak on that spot. As in the pic, I can still fix it by using some wood glue and a clamp to hold it for some time. Not going to risk drilling a hole to put the screw or using a thicker screw.
Point of the message, it is affordable furniture. Just sometimes you get heads, sometimes tails on the finished product.
Depends on luck if you get it assemble right
I have assembled lot of furniture on my ikea student days so I was no stranger assembling this simple furniture. But as I was doing the final steps on the assembly by screwing the top board with the wood screw; the screw somehow did not go any deeper and ended up chewing up the hole. Lucky it was only one screw but that tells me the wood was too weak on that spot. As in the pic, I can still fix it by using some wood glue and a clamp to hold it for some time. Not going to risk drilling a hole to put the screw or using a thicker screw. Point of the message, it is affordable furniture. Just sometimes you get heads, sometimes tails on the finished product.