Assembling glass doors on Ikea Billy wall shelf

  • Erstellt am 2012-04-18 18:18:53

Poldine

2012-04-18 18:18:53
  • #1
Hello.

I recently became the owner of a Billy wall shelf (120x35x28). It was easy to assemble; however, I can’t manage the three accompanying glass doors at all. No matter how or where I mount them, I never manage to fit more than two doors because the third one always overlaps with another. I have assembled so much furniture lately, but here I can’t get anywhere with logic or creativity. I would be very grateful if someone could help me.

Thank you very much, Poldine
 

IKEA-Experte

2012-04-18 18:35:19
  • #2
Have you already tried to align the doors sideways as described on page 18 of the assembly instructions? Detail photos could help with troubleshooting.
 

Poldine

2012-04-18 19:39:37
  • #3
Thank you very much for the reply! Unfortunately, I cannot provide any photos at the moment. I hope to be able to submit them soon. Yes, I tried the fine adjustment; but even if I set the doors to the maximum left/right, the third door overlaps by just under two cm (which unfortunately can no longer be called fine). In my opinion, the problem lies with the two intermediate walls of the shelf, as these are each twice as wide as the outer walls (probably to attach two doors to the same intermediate wall). But no matter which combinations I try, just under two centimeters are always missing on one door (which seems somehow logical to me due to the thick intermediate walls, but I saw the shelf with all three doors on it at Ikea and that's why I bought it).
 

IKEA-Experte

2012-04-18 19:52:35
  • #4
I assume these are the Billy Olsbo display cabinet doors. The assembly instructions also show that the three doors can be mounted to the wall shelf. Do the hinges look exactly like those in the assembly instructions AA-450086-4?
 

IKEA-Experte

2012-04-18 20:43:04
  • #5
The doors should almost completely cover the corpus edges. I suspect two doors are hinged the same way and one on the other side. Those that overlap are then hinged on different sides. If all were hinged the same way, on one side the door would protrude beyond the corpus and on the other side the edge would not be completely covered. Is that the situation?
 

Poldine

2012-04-18 21:40:20
  • #6
Almost like that.. If I were to line up all the doors, theoretically the last one would then protrude beyond the body, but practically that’s not possible at all, because the door can no longer be screwed on there, as the middle one already overlaps the third compartment so much that mounting is no longer possible. Yesterday I found a picture on the internet where all three doors are attached (they are not glass doors like mine, but I estimate similarly, judging by the apparent dimensions); the picture is not from Ikea. I then tried to attach the doors accordingly (left-left-right). But there too I eventually run into the old problem. I have now measured again expressly. If one of these partitions had the normal thickness as found on the outer walls, a correct installation would certainly be possible. However, the partitions are really twice as thick originally.
 

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