After enjoying a leisurely Sunday morning, Tony was working on his laptop at the dining room table. I was in the study working on the computer when I heard a noise. I called out to him if he was alright as it sounded like the chair had gone back onto the cabinet.
I heard him mutter something and after a minute or so decided to go and check out what the noise was. He was looking around in the family room and said, "What was that noise?" Suddenly, he noticed what had caused the noise. We have 2 DVD cabinets attached to the wall and one of them had the glass shatter in the door. We could still hear the cracking of the glass. He said that the noise was pretty loud when it happened.
We had bought these cabinets from Ikea when they first opened in Adelaide some 4 years ago. After cleaning up the glass we decided to go back to Ikea to see if we could get replacement doors.
Alas no such luck. Seeing these cabinets are now a discontinued line we were told that there would be no stock of this item anywhere. When an item is discontinued they sell it out until the item is gone.
Our only option now is to get a glazier replace the glass, which will be a rather difficult job to do without damaging the door. On the other hand we could get 2 new doors made.
I am now wary of buying anything from Ikea, especially in the furniture line, if you can't buy replacements. We have other smaller cupboards in the spare bedroom and while they still have the glass doors available for these we have decided to buy a couple and keep them as spares in case they too shatter. These doors would be harder to replace as they have an etched glass design.
From the Lens..........shattered glass
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