Furniture Assembly
Furniture Assembly: The 4 Mistakes That Wreck Warranties
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Over-torqued cams, missed dowels, and the reason your bookcase leans after six months.
Flat-pack furniture is engineered to be assembled once, correctly. The four things that ruin it: over-torqued cam locks, missed glue on dowels, skipped back panels, and assembling on carpet instead of a flat surface.
Done right, a $1,200 flat-pack wardrobe outlives most solid-wood pieces from the same decade. Done wrong, it's landfill in eighteen months.
Apex assembles every piece to the manufacturer spec — and then double-torques every cam by hand.