[Closed] Beds, pine, double. Help.

Buy a weekend broadsheet newspaper.
Look at the smaller ads in the colour section.
Take your pick.

(But if you want to be sure of the quality, you're going to have to go & look at some beds in John lewis or a manufacturer. They will deliver for you! )

FWIW, we bouhgt from a small manufacturer 20+ years ago, & the bed is great. You spend a third of your life in bed - isn't it worth spending some time actually looking at them before you buy??

Try your local Gumtree or make your own?

I was going to be crude but I won't.

isn't it worth spending some time actually looking at them before you buy??

Indeed it is, but drawing on others experience is also helpful.Although in this case it appears to have backfired.

Pine Solutions do good solid stuff, as do oak furniture solutions.

I have bought a few items from both and they have been very nicely made.
We bought a new bed from oak furniture solutions recently & I was very impressed with the build quality, considering the cost. It went together perfectly & is pretty solid.

This is the one we bought:
https://www.oakfurnituresolutions.co.uk/p/14875/Alba_Walnut_Low_Footend_Bedstead__Single_Double_or_King_Size.html

How is it connected together?

dbcooper - Member

How is it connected together?

Good question.

It went together so easily that I can't really remember - it came as a head end/foot end/side bars etc. and was just a case of pushing it all together and doing some screws up. I can have a proper look to remind myself this evening if you want?
Its got proper wooden slats for the mattress that have a plastic tie in the middle. These sit on a spar that runs down the centre of the bed & are curved slightly to provide a sprung effect. There is a 5th leg in the very centre of the bed with an adjustable foot to support the centre.

I doubt you'll find a bed these days that has screw-in corner brackets etc. Most of them have dowels with a combination of quick-twist fasteners....

Thinking about it - this bed had metal posts that you screw into one part of the frame. It has a countersunk hole on the other end. This post gets inserted into the neighbouring bit of frame & you put in a screw that tightens into the countersunk part of the post to lock it all together.
You could always add corner brackets to any bed that you buy and they'd be pretty easy to conceal.

But, I do wonder what you are doing on these beds that requires extra reinforcement! 😆

Its for student housing you naughty scamp.
I prefer to provide decent quality stuff - it makes them happy, saves work for me to keep going back and get crap stuff fixed, and crucially, when prospective tenants look round they notice the good stuff..

😆

Ah, randy students! That'll explain it! The beds in our halls of residence were welded metal frames, probably for good reason!

Perhaps some of these:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/sabrefix-heavy-duty-angle-brackets-galvanised-60-x-50mm-pk10/61576?kpid=61576&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&kpid=61576&cm_mmc=Google-_-Shopping%20-%20Building-_-Shopping%20-%20Building&gclid=CNiXq9igo8cCFcPKtAodFwMEsg

discretely secured into the corners (mind the screws don't break through) would help with longevity?

Aye we have done brackets in the past, but I just want to start with decent beds in the first place.

I have a couple of ex-RAF metal beds with wooden headboards in my rented flat - they were at a second hand sale, I have no idea where you would source them.

I think they would survive a nuclear war - solid wood, massive bolts, steel frame, cast iron legs etc....

Hmm not a bad idea, as long as they are tasteful. The students are very demanding.

Don't knock it but my girls both have solid pine beds from Ikea.
No movement, went together in minutes with 8 bolts and natural finish so you can stain, varnish, paint accordingly to your taste.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S39007005/

We use a lot of ikea stuff, but the beds I've seen so far are too flimsy.
Foudn this, which actually takes a ton of bricks, but these are bit ugly.
http://www.funky-chunky-furniture.co.uk/double-plank-headboard-bed-frame-3712-p.asp

Okay, actual useful advice time, my double is nigh on identical to that M&S one barring it has a full height foot board. It's solid. Really solid. In all the time I've had it (going on 10 years now) I don't remember ever having to tighten it up. It's survived 2 moves, 2 mattresses, 2 girlfriends (one got promoted) and god knows what else. It can be lifted at one end and it doesn't creak or anything.

I got mine from the purple place, think it's Bensons? Paid about £250 so your M&S one looks like the same ballpark. Would only ever get rid if I could fit a king size in our room and would probably get the same again.

I have a bedshed bed. I think it was he cheapest they did at the time.

Its solid pine. I binned one or two slats that clearly werent going to cut it and replaced the centre spar with better quality pine.

Its rock solid. I think it was 85quid plus a bit for the repacement slats.

Its the materials and cknstruction that are the biggest problem with beds. Chipboard covered in laminate just doesn't have the rigidity I bet your old ones bulged in the middle and the slats fell through.

If the corners are nolted and the slats are screwed to wooden runners you're going to have a solid bed.