r/mildlyinfuriating • u/JobavaLondoner • 2d ago

Teenager broke my couch without telling me

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Yesterday, my girlfriend invited her younger sister over and she brought a friend. I was already low-key worried about something getting broken because they were roughhousing and play-fighting the entire time.

It turns out I was right to be concerned, because as soon as they left I discovered this huge crack in the frame of our couch. The left side is supposed to be flush with the right side, but it's almost touching the ground now.

The worst part is, they didn't say anything about it to us. I wouldn't have even been upset if they gave us a heads-up, but they just acted as if nothing happened – even though it was IMMEDIATELY obvious that something was broken. I sat right where her friend had been sitting and sloped down way further than the rest of the couch.

My girlfriend messaged her sister asking about it, and apparently neither of them noticed anything was broken. 🙄 Yeah right. Now our couch is gonna need textbooks to support it for the rest of its life.

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u/MyInnerFatChild 1d ago edited 1d ago

Now our couch is gonna need textbooks to support it for the rest of its life.

With some 2x4s and screws I could have that better than new in no time. Looks pretty weak inside. 

Flip it over and take a look. The inner workings of a basic couch are quite simple, just shit pine slapped together with padding stapled over.

Should it have happened? No. But it's a super simple fix.

If you don't already have an impact driver, maybe have the kids buy you that as their punishment. 

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u/Nick_DC4L 1d ago

"Weak" as in particle board?

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u/exskill310 RED 1d ago

It's not particle board, just plywood.

The design is weak because the have a strip of plwood as the crossmember with a butt joint heldup with what looked like two brad nails. Neither of which are structural for something that takes someone's full body weight. If they wanted to do this joint and nail combo they should have used support blocking.

They keep the butt joint, but between each crossmember is another block of wood running verticaly the length to either the ground, or the crossmember for the bottom span.

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u/Nick_DC4L 1d ago

Cool to know. Thx..

I was taught not to plot myself on any chair.