I was reading the email when they ship your glowforge which states this …
“Don’t toss the Glowforge shipping boxes! Although we’ve done thousands of hours of testing, in the off-chance that you have a problem with yours, you’ll need the box and packaging for warranty service (in fact, you can’t get a warranty repair without it). You can always use the box to store the thank you notes you’ll get from friends who receive Glowforge-made creations, too.”
The box is huge!!! I literally have nowhere to store that type of a box.
Yes I will have the same problem if I ever get mine. Modern UK houses only have loft space for storing boxes but the the hatch isn’t big enough for a GF box. The warranty is worthless for me as it doesn’t cover shipping, so I will have to repair it myself or use it for parts if it breaks, so I will bin the box.
The box takes up the whole back seat of my Corolla. Its much larger than I imagined now that I actually received it. I also live in an apartment with no garage. But yeah it is quite large!
its a two piece box with a lot of padding. If I would ever need to use it again I wouldn’t want to weaken the box before shipping either. I haven’t looked at it since, but I don’t think it would be good to do that.
If the choice is between throwing out the box or cutting the tape and folding it flat, I know what I’d do. I guess the polyurethane foam pieces will still take up quite a bit of space, but less than the fully-assembled box, I’d think.
I’ve been pondering this as well and don’t think that it’s reasonable to ask us to keep a box of this size around in order to get warranty service. Similar to @palmercr, I would consider putting this in my attic (U.S. equivalent to a loft), but the box is too big to fit through the entrance.
While I like the creativity behind the suggestions that we use the box as a table, Im not sure that this fits the design aesthetic of our household. I’m also not sure that the box would fit under my bed.
@dan, any suggestions on how to get around these limitations? I don’t want to forego warranty repairs because I don’t have the space to store a big cardboard box.
No older houses here can have attics, they are different. My bedroom was in an attic in the first house I lived in. They are rooms built into the roof space with proper floors and ceilings, a staircase to get in and skylights. The ceiling does slope down to the eaves of course.
Lofts generally have just a hatch and a ladder to get in and have exposed rafters and joists and no windows. The one in our house is cold because it is vented and the insulation is below it.
In the US those are called a “finished attic” and an “unfinished attic” respectively.
“Loft” has a few different meanings in the US, but usually it refers to a space directly under the roof that’s open to a room below (whereas an attic is closed up, accessed by either a door or a hatch).
