What to know about furniture from Agata
In Poland, Agata is best known as a chain of furniture stores. It sells pieces from many factories: cabinets, upholstered furniture, bedrooms, kitchens. Two “Agata” wardrobes in neighbouring flats can be built in completely different ways, so it helps the fitter to know in advance what’s in your boxes. The model and manufacturer are usually printed on the pack label.
Three things cause most of the questions. A bed with a lift-up base: the gas struts go in last, once the frame is built and checked, otherwise the base can spring up hard. A sliding wardrobe: the doors run on tracks, and if the carcass isn’t level they roll open by themselves or bang. A corner sofa: the sections join with special connectors, and a corner built the wrong way round only shows once everything is in place.
What it costs and how to book: wardrobe assembly in Warsaw.
What most often goes wrong
- Bed struts fitted before the base is secured. The mechanism is awkward and unsafe to handle.
- A sliding wardrobe built without levelling. The doors drift and the brush seals wear unevenly.
- The top track fixed with too short a screw. A month later it sags under a mirrored door.
- Left and right sofa sections swapped.
- A tall wardrobe left unanchored on a sloping floor in an older building.
Getting ready
- Find the labels with model and maker on the boxes and photograph them.
- Check every pack on the delivery note has actually arrived.
- Leave plenty of room: beds and sliding wardrobes are built where they’ll stand.
- Find out what the wall is made of if the wardrobe will be fixed to it.
- Decide what happens to the cardboard and film; removing packaging is usually a separate item.
Choosing an assembler
Put the job in the app: which pieces, photos of the labels and the room. You can also just snap everything and type a few words, and the app asks for whatever is missing. Fitters who take assembly work send bids with their price and date. You compare ratings and reviews, pick one, and then the contact details open up.
You pay the fitter directly and he issues the invoice. Fixings for the assembly are normally included; carrying items upstairs and taking packaging away are paid separately. The fitter answers for his assembly: if a sliding door slips out of line because of how he set it, he comes back to it. Factory defects and missing parts are sorted out with the store.
Order in the app
Describe the job, add photos and the address. Tradespeople send their own prices and dates, and you pick one of the offers.
Open the app
