I have a day off from work today and I’ll be spending it dismantling and then reassembling two beds.
There is never a day to just not work.
I finished the beds and while I was putting the mattress back on one of them the wooden slats snapped. Now I’ll have to dismantle it again and assemble its replacement tomorrow.
Wooden stake from hardware store + rope + staple gun?
If this wasn’t the second time this has happened to this bed I would be tempted to repair it again. I’m going to demonstrate my contempt for it by chopping it up and burning it.
Is it an IKEA bed? The slats on those are crap. I’m sure there’s a way to cross brace it. Or even use a piece of plywood instead.
It was a donation so I have no idea, but certainly not an ikea one. The frame looks stirdy but the wood has a habit of suddenly and spectacularly failing.
https://youtu.be/inaV2ddeI9k?feature=shared Shitty wood and shitty engineering designed to last 3 years
I watched the first few minutes of that video and it’s super depressing. My home is full of mostly IKEA junk and they’ve not aged well.
However, I did buy these pieces because they were cheap and functional. In the modern world most people aren’t settling in a single place for long. So our furniture doesn’t need to last as long.
I don’t know that I agree. Maybe something like a couch - those seem to have a limited life span. But a bed, table, cabinet? Those are things that a short while ago, one would assume were sturdy. I’ve had to throw bedframes away because the legs were made of paricle board and disintegated because they were nudged too hard. That seems off.