Wardrobe Assembly in London

A vetted pro works out the price from your wardrobe's product details and a photo of the room, and the JACK app shows that fixed price before you book.

Width and door count set the starting point, and the build gets longer with sliding doors, mirror panels, internal drawers or a solid wood carcass. The room matters too: a low ceiling, coving, a sloped loft wall or a fourth-floor flat with no lift can all add to the job. Share the product link or an order screenshot, the ceiling height and a note about the stairs, and the price covers the job as it really is.

If the old wardrobe has to come apart before the new one can go in, add that when you book and it is priced in. A bed, a chest of drawers or bedside tables can go on the same booking too, whether they came from IKEA or other shops, under one price for the visit.

Prefer to pay for the pro's time? Hourly hire works too: as a guide, furniture assembly is typically £35–£75 per hour. For a long list, such as fitting out a whole flat, a full-day handyman booking often suits: a flat £350–£400 day rate for up to 8 hours on site.

• Boxes opened and every panel and fitting checked against the instructions before building, with anything missing or damaged posted in the app
• The frame measured corner to corner so it is square before the back panel goes on, because the back panel is what holds it that way
• The wardrobe levelled on uneven floors, so the doors do not swing open or drift along their track by themselves
• Hinged doors hung and adjusted for even gaps and a flush close, or sliding doors set on their tracks so they run straight
• Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and any other fittings that come in the kit
• Fixed to the wall against tipping, with fixings chosen for the wall it stands against
• If you ask when booking, your old wardrobe taken apart in the room and left with you to dispose of
• Packaging flattened and stacked for recycling

• Two-, three- and four-door hinged wardrobes, including ones with a row of drawers along the bottom
• Sliding door wardrobes, with plain, glass or mirror panels
• IKEA wardrobes from ranges other than PAX, such as HAUGA, KLEPPSTAD, SONGESAND and BRIMNES
• Wardrobes bought online or from furniture shops, built to the maker's instructions
• Solid wood wardrobes, which are heavy, and rattan or cane-fronted ones, whose woven panels need careful handling
• Corner wardrobes, children's wardrobes, and combination units with shelves down one side
• Fabric wardrobes and freestanding clothes rails for a spare room or a rental
• The rest of the bedroom on the same booking: chest of drawers, bedside tables, a dressing table or the bed

• The carcass checked square before the back panel is fixed. A few millimetres out and the doors leave a wedge-shaped gap at one end or creep open on their own
• Top and bottom tracks fitted straight and parallel, so the doors run without catching or jumping off
• Rollers adjusted until each door hangs evenly and closes flush against the side panel
• Stoppers, buffers and soft-close dampers fitted wherever the kit includes them
• Mirror and glass doors unpacked carefully and checked for chips or cracks before they are fitted. Damage found in the box is photographed and flagged in the app, so you can claim it from the seller
• Sliding doors need no room to swing open, which is why they suit narrow bedrooms. Hinged doors need clear floor in front of the wardrobe about as deep as each door is wide

• Raising a wardrobe needs headroom for its diagonal, not just its height. One 200cm tall and 60cm deep needs close to 210cm clear, plus a little for feet or castors
• Measure at the lowest point the top of the wardrobe will pass: under the coving, a beam or a ceiling light, not the middle of the ceiling
• If the room is too low, some wardrobes can be built standing up where they will stay; whether yours can depends on its design, so send its height and depth with a photo and ask in the app before ordering
• In a loft room, measure the height where the wardrobe will actually stand, and check the doors can open fully under the slope
• Skirting boards and coving can leave a gap behind the wardrobe. The anti-tip fixing is set so it still holds the wardrobe across that gap
• Stairs and no lift? Wardrobe boxes are long and heavy. If the delivery company offers room-of-choice delivery, use it, and mention the stairs in the app either way. The wardrobe is built in the room where it will stand, because a finished one rarely fits round a landing
• A large or solid wood wardrobe is heavy to raise upright. Mention it when you book so the job can be planned, and if it needs a second pair of hands, your pro can ask another pro on JACK to help through the Pro2Pro feature

• A wardrobe someone else started and could not finish, or one whose doors never lined up. Photos of where it is up to help the pro price it, and part of it may need taking apart to put right
• Doors that will not line up often trace back to a frame that went out of square before the back panel was fixed, so that is the first thing the pro checks
• Lost the instructions? Many makers publish them online under the product code, which is often printed on the box or on a label inside a panel. Search for that first
• No instructions at all: a pro can often work the build out from the parts, but say so when booking so the price allows for it
• Second-hand wardrobe that arrived in pieces? Check the bag of screws, cam locks and dowels came with it, because a missing fitting is the usual hold-up

• Empty the old wardrobe before the visit, including the top and anything stored underneath
• The old wardrobe is unfixed from the wall, taken apart and its panels stacked in the room for you
• Older wardrobes that were glued or nailed together may come apart in larger sections rather than flat panels
• JACK does not take away old wardrobes, panels or packaging. Your council may run a bulky waste collection, and some shops offer to collect an old item when they deliver a new one