How to Fix an Unstable Ikea Poang Chair Be an action hero! This guide needs images that better demonstrate how to perform specific actions. Some of this guide's text is confusing, duplicated, or off-topic. Clarify it by editing! If the Poang-style chair sold by IKEA is assembled incorrectly, it can cause the seat to dip and tip when it's sat on. This guide will describe the steps necessary to fix this problem and otherwise increase the stability of the chair. Start by removing the seat cushion from the frame. Remove the upper bolt, which attaches the back of the seat to the armrests. Remove the lower bolt, which is the upper bolt attaching the seat to the legs. Remove the same bolts on the opposite side of the chair. To loosen the bolts, turn the Allen wrench to the LEFT, as shown in the video. Separate the back and seat of the chair from the legs and the armrest. Re-attach the bolts removed in Steps 2 and 3. Put each bolt into the correct location before tightening each bolt.
If the bolt attaching the seat tightens too easily, it is not in the hole and rests above or below the wood of the seat. This is what causes the tipping or dipping of the seat. When attaching the bolt for the back of the chair, insert a plastic washer between the wood of the chair leg and the wood of the chair back. Without this washer, the two pieces will not sit flush. This allows the chair to shift and may cause the chair to become unstable. For maximum stability, fully tighten all of the bolts in the chair. As shown in the video, tighten by turning the Allen wrench to the RIGHT. Set the chair cushion on the chair seat. Secure the Velcro on the cushion to the Velcro on the chair back. 2 other people completed this guide. Past 24 Hours: 4 Past 7 Days: 23 Past 30 Days: 128KALSEBO OVEN PANEL 30X40" KARABY TV STORAGE UNITKARLSTAD ADD-ON CHAISE & COVERKARLSTAD CHAIR 28X28X32" & COVERKARLSTAD CHAIR FRAME & COVERKARLSTAD CORNER SOFA 2+3/3+2 & COVER KARLSTAD FOOTSTOOL FRAME & COVER KARLSTAD FREE-STANDING CHAISE & COVERKARLSTAD LEG 5 7/8" 4PKKARLSTAD LONG COVER FOR SOFA, LOVESEAT & CHAIRKARLSTAD LOVESEAT FRAME & COVERKARLSTAD SOFA BED FRAME & COVERKARLSTAD SOFA FRAME & COVER KARLSTAD SWIVEL CHAIRKARLSTAD SWIVEL CHAIR FOOTSTOOLKARSTEN SWIVEL CHAIRKASSETT BOX FOR PAPER W/LID 11X14X7" 2PKKASSETT CD BOX W/LID 6X10X6" 2PKKASSETT CLOTHES BOX W/LID 17X22X7"KASSETT
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So I decided to spice things up a little. Because, is life really worth living if you don’t appreciate the thin line between life and death? You guys remember my POANG chair, right? And, as you can tell, it doesn’t really match anything in the living room and now that I think about it, my bear is kind of creepy, too. So my biggest first world problem last week was to find a matching leather chair to balance out the other two leather chairs that we have. Remember, Russians love leather. Mr. B and I went to IKEA, where we saw that the POANG chair was available in leather. However, it costs $200 and the footstool is another $100. And you know me. There’s no way I’m shelling out $300, especially at IKEA where I expect to have to reassemble the chair at least five times a month using an allen wrench and some of my own minor bones because the screws they include don’t fit by a couple of inches. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw the POANG leather chair PLUS tuffet on Craigslist for $50.
The photo looked ok and the ad mentioned that the bottom was a little scuffed up, so I was trying to figure out what the catch was. And then I saw. The chair was for sale in West Philly. Now, some of you well-versed in American pop culture may know that West Philadelphia is where The Fresh Prince was born and raised. Which makes it sound like a friendly middle-class neighborhood. But the reason Will Smith’s mom sent him away from West Philadelphia was because the Philly crime map looks something like this: Actually, I just realized this makes it look like you should never go into the city of Philadelphia. Which is probably true.Back to my story. West Philly is not the best area to be in at night. Or during the daytime. Granted, UPenn is in West Philly and it’s a really pretty area to walk around in, but that’s like saying that there’s a Green Zone in Baghdad and it’s a really pretty area to walk around in. So,to be safe, I Google-mapped the address I’d be picking up the chair from, and I came up with this street view:
Which doesn’t look too bad, right? I mean, kind of sketchy, but not sketchy enough that a girl couldn’t go get a deeply-discounted chair. So I consulted with a safety expert, after I found a couple pictures of the actual house on Flickr, which is where I edited out the link. With that vote of confidence, I emailed the seller and said I’d be picking up the chair. Note that I did this during the daytime (I left work a little early that day, which is why Mr. B couldn’t come along.) So, here I am, female, young, in a brand-new car, alone, headed to West Philadelphia, which some people who love the area describe asMy street was wonderful. But, a few blocks over, where my cousin lived, there were plenty of boarded up drug houses packed with squatters.” uhhh cuz my cousin got shot there? Good thing I googled this up only after I went. Anyway, so as I drive to the house, the neighborhood gets sketchier and sketchier, people on the street are looking at my car, and soon I’m getting to the point where I’m seriously debating turning around, but I’ve already gone so far, and a $50 chair AND tuffet await me.
My Jewish instincts overpower my will to live. I drive up to the house, park across the street, and text the girl, because I’m not sure it’s the right house. Mainly because there is what looks to be a homeless man sitting on the stoop. On another stoop across the street, a man sits and smokes and watches me. I’m sitting in my car, waiting for the girl to text back, feeling like a creep, and also feeling like I probably should relearn self-defense. She comes out of the house and waves to me, and I feel even more like an asshole for not getting out of the car. She comes up to me and shakes my hand. “Hi, I’m X,” she says, shaking my hand. “And this is Howard.” He smiles a toothless smile at me. She motions me inside. I look back at my car with longing. The chair is exactly as promised, only covered in dust since she is renovating. The row house itself is gorgeous and has so much potential to be fixed up as a historical home, and it’s obvious that the owner has already put a lot of work into making the front beautiful.
Unfortunately on the inside it’s 100% falling apart and it’s a good thing I’m not wearing flip-flops because holy tetanus. Unfortunately, the house is located in West Philly and I’m afraid that any moment I’m going to have to call Mr. B and tell him that he either needs a new car or a new wife. So, she helps me take the tuffet and chair out to my car and just as I think she’s standing there to help me load them, she says, “Bye,” and runs back into the house. So here I am, alone, chair and tuffet out on the street, trying to load them into the car as quickly as possible while the guy on the stoop continues to watch me. Howard seems to have meandered off. I don’t try to position them in the back seat, I don’t try to lay them down in the best possible way, I just stick them in the car and go, go, go. Two minutes out, I realize that I put the chair in in such a way that it’s blocking my entire rear-view mirror, and I not only need to get out of West Philly, but merge lanes on the highway, etc, to get home.
Because I am not stopping. I floor it and rely on my vision from my two side mirrors to get to I-76, merge onto that highway, and then get home and take a stiff long drink. Do NOT try ANY of this at home. Unless you are Jewish and want a 71% discount on furniture. But aren’t you dying to know what it looks like? And here’s the entire living room. (Just lie and humor me.) By the way, interesting story about the original POANG, which is now in our bedroom: I got this one, also from Craigslist, but in D.C. I mean that part of Silver Spring where it turns from Nice Suburban Georgia Avenue into OHMYGOD It’s sketchy DC. Which is less sketchy than West Philly. But instead of going during the day like I did this time, I decided to go after work, alone (where is Mr. B in these situations?) Also, I had my Honda Accord, which meant that the chair originally didn’t fit. So there we were, a small white girl and a small Asian girl, kneeling on the ground on sketchy Georgia Avenue after dark, un-Allen-wrenching the chair to make it fit in my sedan.