Mannipul8tor and Alanshearer (both Basel) as well as PapaGoose (a bit further afield) offer their services on/across the EF

Type "handyman" in the search function and it'll come up with a few suggestions

Can anyone recommend a handyman to build furniture? During my move I made the mistake of ordering the furniture online and completely forgot to sign up for assembly. So I have everything but it's in its respective box. I keep going to buy tools to assemble various furniture and the tools end up falling short.

In the US I never had problems builidng IKEA furniture, but here for some reason the Furniture Gods are against me.

Any recommendations will be welcomed...and if beer money payments are optimal that can be arranged.

HELP!

I did the same but hired a car at Europcar in Lörrach - they had a very cheap special offer, around 35 Euros for 24 hours, 100 km included. It was a huge van! We loaded it with a complete bedroom from Conforama (king size bed, 5-door cupboard, beside tables), a huge couch from Ikea, two cupboards for the living room, an armchair and of course the little things, such as dishes, decoration etc.

It was a great price and we were able to do all at once and luckily without the hurry to have to finish in one hour (would have been impossible!).

We have a lot of our furniture from Ikea - the quality is pretty good. You can get long-lasting real wood furniture from them for a very decent price. It's usually better quality than the barely affordable stuff from Möbel Pfister etc. If you're only here for a year, I sure wouldn't buy heavy and expensive furniture that you'll have to move back to Britain later - that costs a lot, will most likely damage it and give you a stomach ulcer.

Delivery from Ikea in Pratteln is quite fast - you pick up the stuff and move it to the delivery desk. There they'll give you a delivery date (usually within a couple of days). You can also opt to have everything assembled - no too expensive and entirely hassle-free. Ikea Pratteln doesn't do its own deliveries - they have a contractor (Jost, I believe) to do it for them

Peter

Totally agree, plus IKEA has different qualities depending on your budget. I do not understand about people saying they had to wait weeks, I never had to and I have bought from them a few times! Maybe if you order a kitchen then it is something else, still for our kitchen (in NL sorry) we only waited 3 weeks because we put it up and not them.
Really I have been to Interio and they have the same stuff or even cheaper quality and they carhge you 5 times for the stuff.

See this post here: Shopping at Ikea Basel (Pratteln)

Meh, have to go through this thing. The posts are really useful.
Moving to the "permanent " apartment with no lights. The good old days of luxurious temp. apartment are over.

If you buy at a brocki then you could afford to pay for a delivery person

How does one get the 19% tax back ?

The store gives you a form, you fill your informations in, when you pass the border, you get it stamp, next time you go in the area, you stop at the store with the form, the store gives you the tax back.

Simple.

And one would need to pay the import taxes in the Swiss side I suppose ?