I am glad you showed the little black part and said that you never use it. I couldn't understand it in the instruction booklet. Now I can install my cabinets!

Yes Rannes, I sent them a note via their feedback and included this youtube link. Ikea USA doesn't have an email or fax that I can find only a call which I'll do next week too perhaps. I appreciate your videos very much and only wish you were available in California. We do not seem to have anyone as qualified as you to help us install our IKEA stuff. Keep up the good work.

Very good info, I hope that IKEA listens. I will write them too!

There should be a 3D-printed replica of the old spacer available for free online. I am surprised I have not found one. I’d like to make one and share it. I’ll have to guess at the dimensions using the new spacer and what I can see of it in this video. If I make it and put it online I’ll share it here.

Hi, you forgot to talk about the end panels. They are too narrow. We need 16 and 26” wide panels so we can scribe them. And small end panels are 1/2” thick and large panels are 5/8” thick. I don’t understand why ? I always pickup some 36x96 panels from the as-is section for $50 so I can recut them to size (gives ms four 16w x 30h end panels). And it’s cheaper than getting stock 16x30 panels. I use robertson screws. I can’t stand their screws because they are so unstable even with a pz2 bit. Last thing they sould charge people more for kitchen design. $39 for 2 hours is really too cheap to hire competent people. I have to rework the design 90% of the time (for free, thank you very much…). Lots of unnecessary fillers. Disregard for the location of outlets and plumbing, etc… And they sell accessories and gadgets that aren’t needed ($15 for the piece of 2x4 and 2 brackets to put an Ikea island together. $20 for 2 strips of MDF, tons of extra feet, etc…). They also need to reduce their packaging… Cheers !

Hi. I completely agree with your observations. Those wall cabinet spacers are a pain. I have had to shave every one of them down with my belt sander to get the cabinets to hang plumb. Instead of using a nail, I used double-sided tape to attach them to the back of the units. Surely, they could develop some way of adjusting the hanging angle, maybe by means of a threaded adjuster in each of the bottom corners? The worst aspect for me by far is that in the U.K. dry-wall on the ground floor is very rare. Most houses here are brick-built, so the plumbing and gas pipes are attached to the interior wall and run in the void behind the cabinets. IKEA units do not allow for this and only have a 10mm gap, so I have had to completely relocate all of the plumbing in the kitchen to the 8cm gap (which is the leg height), so almost ground level. They don't mention this when you order your kitchen. It's another added expense and inconvenience. Talking about the legs, why are they made from chocolate? They are unbelievably brittle and snap at the slightest movement. In general, I find IKEA products to be very well made and easy to build, which makes it hard to fathom why they make so many basic design flaws. Like you said in your video, it's almost as if they don't test these 'improvements' before putting them into production.

As an installer, did you notice the change when the wall cabinets started having the back panel be folded and have a crease in them? It seems to me that IKEA didn't approve this change because all of the cabinets on display in IKEA have no fold in the back panel, the installation instructions don't show a fold in the back panel like they do in their other products that have a fold, and even the packaging measurements on their website still lists the old packaging measurements before they started folding the back panel… I tried to google to see when this change took place and haven't been able to find it. At the two different IKEAs I've been to, their staff was actually surprised to hear this. It's not such a big deal for cabinets with solid doors... but if you have glass doors you can totally see the fold. I'm curious what your thoughts about this are!

Thank you, sir, you absolutely right! those screws are rubbish! And people are making more and more rubbish these days just to save cost. Even for the smallest thing like a screw. When i try to fasten a panel, it's like a drilling through diamond. it's rattling the whole row of cabinets and still can't move an inch.

lol, i could confirm that Ikea still has not change the spacer, i guess make the wall behind cabinet vertically straight is easier, rather than trimming the cabinet's spacer, just use wedges or shims.

Love this 😂