Wednesday, August 3, 2011

New Omlet Walk In Run

My Omlet WIR has just arrived and I'm feeling a little daunted by the task ahead of me. I posted on the Omlet forums for advice on any tips or advice on pitfalls and got some entertaining responses such as the following which really made me laugh.
  • I haven't assembled one of those but surely there's only one method with assembling flat pack stuff…
  • Rip open all the boxes with your bare hands and strew the bits about the grass 
  • Throw the instructions aside, laughing in the face of needing such trivial assistance! 
  • Spend 15 hours randomly trying to match bits up. 
  • Give up and have a glass of wine before admitting defeat and retrieving the instructions.
 Or is that just me?
After containing my excitement until the end of the working day I finally got out at 6pm thinking I could get 3h assembly work in and finish tomorrow evening.

I got two side panels assembled to form a corner and was feeling very pleased with myself (OK, I was using the instructions). Then I cast around for the door section. As I did so I spotted the eglu hole panel.

Oh dear - I had purchased a WIR to fit my eglu classic with run, however what I've been sent is a WIR to fit an eglu Go without a run. I'll have to get on the phone to them tomorrow. Trouble is, I'm off on holiday for a week and was hoping to get it all assembled before I went. Darn, darn, darn. 

And what do I do with all that cardboard and run pieces while I'm away???? The thought of putting it all back is not appealing. Thank goodness I took the advice and had a bottle of wine chilling ready