# IKEA Furniture Disassembly for Moving: What Survives and What Doesn't > Which IKEA furniture can be safely disassembled and reassembled for a move? A look at confirmat screws vs. cam locks, what survives, and what to replace. - Type: post - URL: https://moonmovers.net/blog/ikea-furniture-disassembly-for-moving-what-survives-and-what-doesnt/ - Updated: 2026-09-15T17:07:02+00:00 ## About this page Which IKEA furniture can be safely disassembled and reassembled for a move? A look at confirmat screws vs. cam locks, what survives, and what to replace. ## Key facts - Phone: +1 (708) 815-4747 - Email: info@moonmovers.net - Location: Chicago, IL - Map: 41.8778483, -87.6855646 - Price range: $$ - Serving: Chicago · Evanston · Skokie · Des Plaines · Palatine · Schaumburg · Naperville · Aurora · Elgin · Bolingbrook · Joliet · Orland Park · Tinley Park · Waukegan · Rockford · Springfield · Peoria · Champaign · Bloomington · Decatur - Social: https://www.facebook.com/moon.movers.2025/ · https://www.instagram.com/moonmovers/ · https://www.tiktok.com/@moon.movers · https://www.google.com/maps?cid=3300875412407038330 - Logo: https://moonmovers.net/storage/projects/39/files/images/logo-dark-512.png - Hours: Monday 08:00–21:00 - Hours: Tuesday 08:00–21:00 - Hours: Wednesday 08:00–21:00 - Hours: Thursday 08:00–21:00 - Hours: Friday 08:00–21:00 - Hours: Saturday 08:00–21:00 - Hours: Sunday 08:00–21:00 ## Page content ## IKEA Furniture Disassembly for Moving: What Survives and What Doesn't You are planning a move and half your apartment is furnished with IKEA. The bookshelf, the wardrobe, the bed frame, the kitchen cabinets — all of it assembled from flat packs a few years ago. The question is whether any of it can be taken apart, trucked across town, and put back together without turning into a wobbly… ## Why the Fastener Matters More Than the Brand A crooked door, a shelf that sags, an ugly chip on the laminate — in ninety percent of cases the fault lies not with the person doing the work but with the fastener that was chosen or, more often, reused one too many times. The internal structure of particleboard (LDSB, the material IKEA uses for most of its catalog)… This is the core problem with moving flat-pack furniture. The furniture itself is fine. The panels, the laminate, the edge banding — all of it travels well if wrapped properly. But the connection points, the places where one board meets another, are the weak links. Everything comes down to what kind of hardware sits… ## The Two Fasteners You Need to Know ### The Confirmat Screw: Workhorse With a Limit The confirmat (also called a Euro screw) is a common fastener in flat-pack furniture. It is a thick, coarse-threaded bolt designed specifically for particleboard. Its wide thread bites deep into the soft material, creating a strong joint that resists both pulling apart and rocking side to side. Many budget flat-pack… The strength is real — a properly seated confirmat makes a rigid 90-degree joint. But there is a hard limit. After two to three disassembly-and-reassembly cycles, the particleboard around the threads starts to give. The hole gets sloppy. The joint still holds, but it is no longer tight, and the piece of furniture… ### The Cam Lock (Eccentric/Minifix): the Survivor The cam lock is a two-part system. A metal stud screws into one panel. A rotating disc (the cam) sits inside a drilled pocket in the adjoining panel. Turn the cam a half-rotation with a screwdriver, and its internal lobe grabs the stud's head and pulls the two panels together with considerable force. The stud never… This is why cam locks handle many more assembly cycles than confirmats. IKEA uses them widely — in BILLY and KALLAX shelving as well as the PAX wardrobe system, METOD kitchen cabinets, BRIMNES beds, and some configurations of HAVSTA and BESTÅ storage. If you open a joint and see a round disc the size of a quarter… - Look at the joint. If you see a hex or Phillips head on the outside face of a panel, it is a confirmat. 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