INNOVEX KM02 Filing Cabinets

Comment: A good, cheaper higher end cabinet. Assembly was easy, but piecing together the sheet-metal drawer sides was a little intimidating. The 'wood' is good quality laminated particle board but it scratches pretty easily. The file cabinet drawer is a little awkward to use and that is my biggest complaint: files can only be hung perpendicular to the front. The drawer sliders don't allow the drawer to open all the way so slight bending (not too much) of the file is needed to get it in or out of the drawer. Other than that, the product is GREAT. Looks good and the wheels are big and easy to lock. I don't put in or take out files more than once a day so I would buy another because of the overall quality and appearance. It even came with a small plastic drawer organizer. It's an excellent product that would cost 2-3x the amount in stores.

Comment: This is a heavy and relatively hard to assemble piece of furniture. I've done a lot of "some assembly required" items and this ranks up there with one of the most awkward to assemble (it would probably be easier if you had two people).

One word of warning: When screwing the sides of the drawers onto the drawer face you MUST NOT USE TOO MUCH FORCE otherwise you will rip the poorly seated anchor from the pressboard. When this happens (and it WILL happen if you aren't careful) you will need some superglue to re-seat the anchor back into the drawer face. I would have just returned it right then and there, but I had the thing 85% put together at that point.

Once assembled the drawers don't glide smoothly on their tracks and, when combined with the above problem of poorly attached drawer fronts, when they snag you may find yourself holding a drawer front that you've just ripped off.

As others have documented it is not ideal for hanging files.

Provided it still has all the drawer fronts, it is a nice enough looking piece of office furniture.

Comment: This is great as a rolling drawer unit. And that's pretty much what I bought it for: some drawers for storage, plus a little file storage capacity.

The drawers work great. They operate smoothly, without sticking. There're two of them, which is nice for organization. But the filing part leaves a little to be desired. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but hanging file folders don't seem to fit in with the folders parallel to the front, like in most filing cabinets. But they do fit in 'sideways'. This might be okay, but then the included supports don't really stay in place, and so trying to go through the folders usually results in some coming loose.

The construction seems sturdy (and heavy!), and the casters work well, and it looks great. I didn't have any problem putting it together, either. So, overall, it's great for me. But if you have a lot of stuff to keep organized and filed, it might not work so well for you.

Comment: I set out assembling this cabinet having a lot of experience and little trouble with similar furniture. This one for some reason gave me a very hard time. Maybe the instructions weren't clear and I was tired, but it is very easy to get it wrong forcing you to have to disassemble and start over. So, read the instructions very carefully and don't presume anything! Just because there's a hole the other side used, don't overlook the instructions based on your assumption.

This is a very nice cabinet, but assembling it was a bear for me. It took me four long tedious painstaking hours. The very last thing to do was snap on the back, and that didn't fit quite right and took a lot of work.

Comment: This file cabinet is spacious all over. The two drawers hold a lot and the cabinet hold a lot of files. I'm happy with this solid piece.