Best dining table bench? How to assemble an IKEA PERJOHAN bench with storage

What is the best dining table bench seating with storage underneath? We're trying out the IKEA PERJOHAN dining table storage bench. 

In this video (maybe an IKEADAD vid) I try out the assembly instructions in pretty much real time step by step (with bits speeded up). If you want to know how to assemble or put together the Perjohan IKEA bench, this may or may not be the way for you!

Best dining table bench? Putting up an IKEA PERJOHAN bench with storage

0:00 Best dining table bench? Putting up an IKEA PERJOHAN bench with storage - is it any good?

1:00 How to oil and what oil to use with IKEA wooden furniture: SKYDD mineral oil.

2:08 How to put together the IKEA dining table bench bench Perjohan with under storage: assembly instructions

4:10 Is the IKEA Perjohan dining table bench with storage any good? Perjohan review

TRANSCRIPT: (CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE)

THIS IS THE TRANSCRIPT - CLICK PLAY ON THE VIDEO ABOVE!

Hello I’m Neil welcome back to the dad delivers vlog it's the place where we try to be happy with what we've already got except I’ve completely failed at that today because we've got some new stuff! 

Sorry my son's playing the new Fortnite chapter in the background so this could be challenging 

But this is the Perjohan IKEA bench... table bench for two or maybe three small bottoms on there and 

I’m gonna put it together in real time right here so maybe this is an IKEA dad channel video but this is it this is how the Perjohan box arrives

This really tiny package and it's quite easy to carry 

What I’m going to do now as you can see on the footage is me on the floor uh opening up the Perjohan IKEA table bench 

I’m going to open it up and before we put it together I’m going to be using this 

It's called Skydd - it's the IKEA mineral oil that you can apply to wood and usually it's supposed to use it for I think surfaces that you're going to eat food on 

This... this is how it looks after the Skydd has gone on but as you can see I’m trying to put as much oil onto the bench and the sides and the bottom there as possible 

You're supposed to use two coats I think after 24 hours but I’m just going to get this coat on first before 

I put the pieces together because it's much easier doing it now than later when the bench is already together like this 

It's difficult getting it in... into the nooks and crannies much easier to do it like this with all the separate pieces 

I’m just using a cloth to wipe it on 

Spread it all around and let it sink into the wood 

I’ve actually used the packing case you can see the... the... the box the cardboard box that it came in 

I’m actually using that just as a base or a floor covering to do the oiling so it doesn't go everywhere too much 

And now we'll put the pieces together and if this video is helping why not hit the thumbs up button if you've reached this point it'll be really helpful but let's start putting the sides onto the base 

So now it's oiled the first thing I need to do is to get these dowels into these planks 

Next I push these side planks into the side panels 

These are the... the sides of the bench 

Then we bolt the sides into each other with the inevitable allen key and IKEA bolts

[CRASH!]

now it's time to fit the bars that the seats - the bench seats - will sit on so first I’m going to add the dowels to those two bars and then we put the bench on its side and fit the dowels into the slots so that these two bars will hold the seats that we'll sit on 

Now we'll slide the base into the bench 

This is the bottom of the bench and it's... this is the great thing about the IKEA Perjohan can't say it Perjohan table bench is that it's got storage underneath it, so you could put books in there or we've been putting shoes in there 

It's been quite useful just to have that bit of storage around the dining table 

And now we can bolt on the side of the bench and this side we’ll leave till last so that it holds all of these pieces in place 

It just holds all of the bits together and binds the... the sides the top bars and that bottom floor of the bench 

And we'll do that with the IKEA allen key and bolts 

Next stage is to flip the bench over the right way up so it's now starting to look like the dining table bench that it is, and we've got some dowels in there and now we're going to bolt on the seat panels 

So these are the two planks that we'll actually sit on and this will finally hold everything together 

And that's the bench! 

Have you got it all in?

That is the IKEA Perjohan... Perjohan dining table bench 

Look how much generous storage that you get so now that you've oiled all of the parts hopefully this won't crack or if you spill food or drink on it they won't stain 

We think these are absolutely brilliant and uh they're quite good value for the for the price 

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