Friday, February 15, 2008

Self Build/Ikea in Belfast

Well our trip to Belfast went fairly well, left at 7 o clock Friday evening and had booked a room in the crown plaza in Dundalk for €75 for the room for the night arrived there at 11! Would highly recommend the hotel is a beautiful place and very reasonably priced.
The Sat nav came in handy and brought us right to the door of the kings hall for the building expo, got some great info and paperwork there plenty new products and i have people returning quotes to me on several items. Also met a truss company truss world i must send them some drawings of the roof they will spec and price the exposed trusses for the roof in the sitting room.
Found some beautiful stairs there, think we are going to use that design and get a local joiner to make it up for us! Also the stone cladding panels looked very well and we are thinking of putting this on one of the walls in the sitting room to make a feature of it!
The prices up the north were 5 to maybe 10% cheaper than down here ans several company's were prepared to do deals down here!
Henderson garage doors had a display there got a very good price on there new insulated draught proof up and over automated door.
After the expo we headed to Ikea i had been looking forward to seeing this place with all the talk i had heard about it, we started off on the wrong foot with the sat nav bringing us to a dead end down by Belfast's docks thank god it was bright cause id say its a scary place by night! I don't know if it is Ikea's website or the sat nav that was wrong but we had typed in the postal address from their website! We eventually got there with good old fashioned sense of direction head for the airport you cant go too wrong!!!
When we arrived there, there is a four story car park dedicated to the shop and an open air car park further back all were full its a wait just to park, when we got inside i was very disappointed with the quality and design of the majority of the furniture and me and the jolly lady certainly wont be making any purchases there she was even more disappointed than me!!!! The place was busy but negotiable and it was the stuff that was more off putting than anything else, to add insult to injury we left and it took the best part of two hours to get back to the kings hall where the expo was on, it's on the road home. The traffic was absolutely crazy!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Agree with you regarding the quality of the IKEA stuff, its rubbish !

Popped into the store in Malaga just after xmas and my wife was very disappointed with it. You can pick up a few good ideas though, just but the stuff elsewhere !

baud.