Ikea Pax doors: hinges / door uneven height - Pax Drammen

Hello everyone,

a few weeks ago we set up our Pax at a height of 201 cm.
At that time, we had bought 2 matching Ikea Pax doors "DRAMMEN" (= 3 hinges).

We were able to install one door immediately, which went completely smoothly.
Unfortunately, we had to exchange the second door because of a defect in the glass *eye roll*.

When we finally got this replacement door, we experienced something really great during the installation yesterday.
As far as I understood, there are no right or left doors, but you simply turn the door "upside down" so that it fits the other side of the cabinet.

However: the distances between the upper/lower hinge and the middle hinge are not equal!
That means in our case that we had to set the middle hinge of the right door one hole lower than on the left door!
I already thought to myself, "Great, what a waste of space!"
After all, there are 3 holes instead of 2 spaces where you can’t install drawers, etc.!
It’s annoying if you have exactly planned the inside of the cabinet down to the hole!

But here’s the kicker:
The right door sits 5 mm higher than the left door!
And not crooked, but horizontally. So REALLY higher and not misaligned.

We tried tilting the doors towards each other to make them look closer,
but this causes a pretty ugly vertical gap between the two doors,
which gets bigger towards the bottom. So that’s not a solution either.

Are we the only ones with this problem? I somehow can’t find any matches on the internet.
I mean, you can’t do more than put the hinges in the matching holes, right?!
Who knows about this, who can solve this mess?
Ikea can’t be serious about this, can they?
After all, now the handles are also unevenly high because we drilled them evenly!
Thanks to you all!!

How about a picture.

Then measure the distance of the hinge holes from one door and from the other door. If there are differences, the [Topfbohrung] probably shifted slightly during production.

However: the distances between the upper/lower hinge and the middle hinge are not the same! That means in our case that we had to position the middle hinge of the right door one hole lower than on the left door! I already thought to myself, "Yes, great, what a waste of space!" After all, 3 holes instead of 2 holes are used up where you cannot install drawers, etc.! Stupid when you have precisely calculated the interior of the cabinet down to the hole!

Exactly that happened to me with my white, simple Ikea Pax door. The left is one hole higher than the right. I was so annoyed that I had to reinstall the screws for the shelves. However, both doors close at the same height.

Hello

It's nice that there are others who criticize this ridiculous construction. The problem is that with the 201cm high wardrobe, the drillings in the side walls are such that there is a drilling exactly in the middle between the topmost and bottommost drilling. Thus, logically, you cannot make a door that can be used on both the left and right, or mount the hinges at the same height. Solutions: - IKEA provides a hinge for these cases that has an offset on the door and thus corrects the error.

At the very least, IKEA should point out this deficiency both in the online planner, as well as in the catalogs, the assembly instructions, or through their staff!

Anyway: Ikea Pax with hinged doors is simply a waste of space. The monster hinges also do not fit next to a drawer, which is why no drawer can be mounted at the top, in the middle, or at the bottom.

Conclusion: PAX itself is good, but be careful with the hinged doors on 201cm high wardrobes. They must be taken into account in planning!

I find your petty nitpicking a bit excessive. It should be cheap, but also a designer wardrobe. That doesn't work. At that price and with that warranty, I can live with minor issues.

Now to the actual problem:

What happened to the measuring? Did you already measure or take a photo?