Anyone Had Their Ikea Shelves Go boom?

[Thurmus]

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/interiors/sydney-woman-outraged-after-glass-ikea-cabinet-explodes-it-scared-the-living-hell-out-of-us/news-story/13a08aa0d366cc74319a47c2070e212d

[1AZRAEL1]

Dang. Sounds like a case of a defect with the glass

[Ralph Wiggum]

Had mine for 15 years and done two moves. No problems here.

[DELTAprime]

Occasionally glass spontaneously breaks. I have no idea why this is newsworthy according news.com.au.

[kup]

I had mine for what must be 8 years. No issues and it survived a difficult move (moron movers). There needs to be a bit of an understanding of what causes it to shatter, specially with people who have owned it for several years (abrupt temperature changes, vibrations, pressure, electrical fields, etc).

[MV75]

It's safety glass so a sharp small impact point hit will cause it to break. Also don't over tighten any fasteners like the door hinge screws. We have two, one I've assembled and one still in box, no worries yet. :) I do suggest to get the light kit too, a single one mounted center top pointing down really lights it great.

[M-bot]

I have about 8 or 9 detolfs, some of which have survived house moves with no worries.

Sometimes stuff just happens.

[Thurmus]

Occasionally glass spontaneously breaks. I have no idea why this is newsworthy according news.com.au.

What is not newsworthy to news.com.au?

The amount of headlines/articles that are based around one person's twitter comment being the end of the world as we know it does my head in. They used to actually have news on there.

And since when did someone buying some cheapo thing from K-Mart and using it for another purpose become news? It's the contents of a f'n craft magazine or newsletter. Not news.

[SMHFConvoy]

And since when did someone buying some cheapo thing from K-Mart and using it for another purpose become news? It's the contents of a f'n craft magazine or newsletter. Not news.

There's no mention of anything like that in the article

[Thurmus]

Just look at news.com.au every second day.

[UltraMarginal]

It is a lot of Drama, the Cabinets have shattered in the past, but based on the article, it's a few isolated cases in a few countries out of probably millions of cabinets sold. It looks like safety glass, so it shatters into small pieces rather than large shards.

I don't have a detolf, but looking at it, it kind of looks like the glass is not supporting the cabinet in any way, it's just sitting in rails between the base and the top to hold it in place. I'd almost suggest that the ones that have broken have been improperly assembled and somehow a stress load has been applied to the glass that has over time built up and led to the failure of the glass. pure speculation but it's extremely unlikely for glass like this to fail without some kind of outside interference.

and talking about the malm cabinets being unsafe.. we bought some over a decade ago and they came with wall anchors then. I do not understand why there was ever a recall.

[MayzaPrime]

It looks like it was the black detlofs that exploded... I have the white ones. So I should be ok ;);):D

Seriously, I have had mine for a few years and they have also survived a move. We don't know how tightly they have been put together.

[ITZTRU]

I bought 4 last week. Apart from the glass door, the sides and back are not fastened by any kind of screw. The top and bottom wooden base that hold the frame together are tightened with bolts on both top and bottom. If the top and bottom screws are too tight it might create pressure on the glass as it could push the top and bottom of the glass and press on it causing pressure and make the glass want to “bend”.

Bottom line - don’t over tighten the screws.

[G1Optimal]

Bottom line - don’t over tighten the screws.

To add to that
Or you will be screwed,:D:p

[Autocon]

To add to that
Or you will be screwed,:D:p

Hit the nail on the head... doh

[G1Optimal]

Hit the nail on the head... doh
Lmao:D:cool: