Hemnes series from Ikea - how's the quality?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the people with the drawers falling apart did something wrong on assembly. There should be a metal crossbar holding the bottom in.

No, it still wiggles out of the side rail. The bottom of the drawers is basically a piece of cardboard and when everything is super tight it stays in, but as soon as something loosens the drawer bottom comes apart.

We have always used wood glue while assembling our dressers from Ikea. Ikea does not tell to use woodglue but my DH likes to do woodwork and he thought that wood glue would make it more stable and solid. We have never had any problem with any Ikea furniture. Our Ikea dressers are stuffed to the brim with clothes and we have never had any problems. PP is right, some of the dressers do not have the metal crossbar holding bottom in. I think desks with drawers do.

Just felt the underside of 7 full size dresser drawers and they all have the crossbars. The little half sized ones do not.

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We have had hemnes furniture for fifteen years. It has held up well.

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Just built a tall 6 drawer Hemnes dresser. It’s important to follow the instructions exactly and make sure things go on the right place in the right way. My dresser is super solid and comes with the supports for the bottom of the drawers.

This video was super helpful to follow along in addition to the printed assembly instructions.

https://youtu.be/aYZPt0BbjtM