Flat pack marathon, stage 5

Saturday begins with the second drawer for the bed, and we can then shift that into place and make a start on the wardrobes. These are big items - the flat packs that hold each one are too heavy to lift and we have to slide them around. We also have to work out whether there is enough room in the front bedroom to put them together without moving the queen size bed that occupies much of the space. We have to make them up in situ as once they are constructed they'll be too big to bring in from the hall through the door.
Ikea are masters of the small space, so they provide two sets of instructions - one for erecting the wardrobes vertically, the other for making them up on the floor then tipping them up. We make the carcase of the first one vertically, and it proves reasonably straightforward, except that we have to keep standing on a ladder to reach to the top bits.
We have a break in the middle of the day when Marty (who built the gate between the two houses for us) came to quote for a deck at the rear, and for some work on the garden wall. It all takes time as we wrestle with having the largest possible deck while retaining the option to park a car in the courtyard.
When the wardrobe construction is complete, the next step is to fasten the wardrobe to the wall - anything that tall has the potential to topple over on top of the unwary user. The back has pre-cut holes through which to put fastenings into the wall behind. Murphy gets into the act here - when Peter drills the first hold into the double brick wall behind the wardrobe, he realises he's on a mortar line, not brick. And as it's really old mortar, it is much too soft to hold the fastening. There is a fairly long pause in proceedings while he tries various kinds of plugs, makes a trip to the hardware store, tries more options, before he is finally satisfied that he has a secure fixing. Meanwhile, Helen tidies up the masses of cardboard packing we are generating, stows linen in the drawers in the new bed, while holding things and passing things to the man on the ladder as required.
Before we discovered the problem with the mortar line, we made the mistake of lowering the levelling legs in the front of the wardrobe. In the process of moving the wardrobe away from the wall and back again, we have now dislodged these, and it takes a bit of thinking and a lot of time to get them secured back in place. But by the time we quit so that Helen can get dinner and head to a concert, everything is in order, level and securely fastened to the wall.