BESTA love and idea thread

[Collectorcol]

I'm gonna head to Ikea in the next week or so. I have 3 PFs to display (Batman, Joker, and Ivy).

Can someone please link me to what Besta I should go with for these pieces? Thank you!!

Few decisions to make.
First of all pick the colour you want.

Then pick the unit. Either pick this for the three...

Or this for four. You can always add more to your display later...



Then decide if you want to leave them open or add doors...

or

Then either have it flat to the floor or there's two types of leg to choose from.

Hope this helps.

 

[Pixelpiper]

Or mount to the wall or put on top of other base cabinets, including the Besta short extensions, with or without feet.

IKEA is like Lego.

 

[Agent23]

Thank you!

I like the one with the 4. Got a link for it? I want black with doors.

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[Collectorcol]

Thank you!

I like the one with the 4. Got a link for it? I want black with doors.

You need to pick up the carcass then the doors.
Ikea don't sell as a package, you mix and match.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90134043/#/50102138

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50210840/#/10210842

I have one of each unit with a mixture of doors. The Vassbo can make viewing items on the bottom quite difficult so I used Tombo there...

 

[Agent23]

Thank you very much.


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[Therivox]

Maybe they will come up with a new style to replace the TOMBO.

Hard to say if there will anything like tombo for quite awhile. Seems like they wanna use vassbo.

I cleaned out ikea north York. online said they had 11 but only had 3 left

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[Therivox]

I'm gonna head to Ikea in the next week or so. I have 3 PFs to display (Batman, Joker, and Ivy).

Can someone please link me to what Besta I should go with for these pieces? Thank you!!


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Since super bowl was a snore for me I managed to finish my besta with batman, joker, ivy and soon to be harley.

See if I can get a quick shot tonight. I'd tend to avoid the pretty finishes ( birch and etc) ikea is affordable and unpredictable at discontinuing ****.. unless you don't mind miss matching wall units

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[Agent23]

I think I want the Besta that holds 4 comfortably. With the glass doors.

Can anyone link to both for a US buyer.

 

[Collectorcol]

I think I want the Besta that holds 4 comfortably. With the glass doors.

Can anyone link to both for a US buyer.

Just go on the Ikea site and search 'Besta' then look for what you want.

 

[dw316]

So I disassembled mine and reassembled it. The same problem is occurring and it is causing the entire shelf and the doors to be slanting downwards. Basically, from the bottom-most unit, it feels sturdy, but at the top, when I push right to left on the outside wall, the shelf slides over to the left, and when I hold it so that it cannot move any further to the left, all the doors are aligned and straighter. But once I release, it slides back to the right, I loosened the bottom right screws connecting the right wall and the base, but that didn't do anything. The swivel base pegs are level with the ground so the base is not tilting. It's the right (and left) wall that is loose and I cannot get it to stay towards the left. Does anyone know how to fix this?

If I adjust the doors so that they are level, then all the doors will be slanting towards the upper right (the upper left corner of the door will be fine against the left wall, but the bottom left corner of the door will be several millimeters shifted to the right from the left wall, if that makes any sense. And then I would have to adjust accordingly and from a distance, it just looks slanted.

 

[Pixelpiper]

Put a level on the very bottom shelf - is the shelf level?

Have you put the whole thing down on the floor on its back and made sure that absolutely everything is tight?

Have you moved it to a different spot in the room and checked the floor in the original spot to make sure it's level?

 

[dw316]

Base is level so that's not the problem. The problem I think is the left and right wall sliding left and right, it isn't secure. I tightened the screwed connecting the left and right walls to the base as much as I could but the problem remains and it is still loose. I disassembled it and assembled everything while the shelf was lying flat on its back this time around and saw that all the doors were aligned correctly. When I put it up, the weight of the doors pulls it down towards the right on the opposite site of the hinges, but I think it's also pulling the entire shelf that way too.

Here's a photo of the shelf on it's own, and then when I push against the right wall so that both walls shift to the left as far as it could go. If you look closely at the glass shelf and the door on the unit below it towards the right, you can see the gap changes after the shift and looks more level/straight/consistent since the "lean" is gone. It's not perfect, but it's much more straighter, and that small amount would make all the doors align straight along the wall as well. It's a small distance but that "lean" is really causing the "look" of the shelf to be off.

 

[Pixelpiper]

Easy test: mount the doors on the other side and see if it causes the reverse tilt.

Which Besta unit is this again? How many "units" high is it? You can also try taking the doors off completely and checking to see if the cabinet is square. My guess is that even with the doors remove you should see the frame is "off" and not square.

 

[dw316]

I will give that a go, thanks. They start out aligned when I attached them while the BESTA was on it's back. Gravity pulled them down on the side opposite the hinges, but I think the doors are still alright, gravity pulled the entire shelf walls moreso to my guess. I might try to maybe hinge the middle door on the right hand side to see if that has any effect. This is the 3 unit tall BESTA, 72" H. Even without the doors, the walls shift and feels loose, so I would conclude it is definitely the shifting walls that are causing the slant. I don't know what to do to secure the side walls so that they don't move side to side, but maybe it's just a manufacturing flaw since it's IKEA? They are only secured to the base at 4 points and maybe that's not enough to keep the walls steady at this height?

 

[dw316]

Yeah, the doors don't seem like they're moving when I shift the side panel walls over to the left. They look to be in place, and when the sides shift over to the left, it aligns better with the doors, perpendicularly that is. It's more of a right angle.

 

[Pixelpiper]

The Besta also has (4?) bolts securing the top to the sides. Just pop the hinges on the doors to remove the doors and see if that causes the unit to line up straight - the hinges are all the clip-top type right?

Also, you should never attach doors to any cabinet before the cabinet has been fully assembled and set in place - in other words, you build the cabinet without doors, lift it up, make sure it's perfectly square and level, and then start on the doors.

Besta comes with brackets allowing it to be fastened to the wall via its top corners. If it's perfectly level and square prior to attaching doors, you can fasten it to the wall and then add the doors. They should not be able to deform the cabinet.

 

[dw316]

I'm not sure what the clip-top type is. But the first time I assembled it, I added the doors after it was upright and leveled. Without the doors, the walls still shift left and right, they are not secured tight enough at the base to not move, even with the top base connected. There's definitely less of the shift with the top on but it still feels loose at the base connection. Despite tightening the bolt the farthest I can, the side walls still shift. It did come with brackets to fasten to the wall and I think those could solve the problem, except the walls in my home are weak and it is advised by building management not to drill any holes or hang heavy objects on them so I'm on the fence about that and have it standing on it's own right now. I have to move it into another room later on anyhow once space is made available. If only I had a video recorder, I can show the shifting, but all I have now is a before and after in the photos above. It looks like the doors are attached right. If I shift it to the left as much as I can, everything is aligned as it was when I assembled it lying on the ground. Only when I let go and the weight/gravity pulls it over to the right, everything is misaligned. I might just have to fix it onto the wall, but I was wondering if there was a way around it.

 

[bicoid18]

Dw316, are you still using the glass shelves instead of the regular ones? Maybe try using the regular shelves at the default intervals (~23") using the 2 Phillip screw shelf supports for the front side. That might add a little more stability to the frame. Also check if your floor is level and add shims if you need to.

I can't believe Ikea discontinued the Tombo glass doors. I just found out when I was trying to check the stock in my local store online. They had about 50 or so in December! Man I should have stocked up when I had the chance. Hopefully they'll reintroduce the longer glass doors again. Seems they also discontinued the 2 sided bestas as well?



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[dw316]

I only have glass shelves on the top unit, but the other ones are on the pegs without the screws so I'll try it with the screws to see if that helps. Thanks for the tip! I know the base parts of the side panels are what's swaying, but hopefully the shelves with the screws will minimize that perhaps. I'll will keep you updated. Thanks for all the advice guys, bicoid18, pixelpiper!

 

[Collectorcol]

Tombo discontinued?
There's plenty available in the U.K.