Slatted leather bed frame questions

Lee asked

31st January 2012

John and Ryan thanks for replying. The bed I brought is a leather and has a wooden bar straight through the middle of the bed and the slats individually fit into plastic sheath’s which pop into place along the sides and middle bar, I had to nail the slats to the sides of the bed throught the sheaths because every time we moved or sat on the bed one side of the slats (two or three at a time) would pop out its sheath and onto the floor hence nailing them and now its beginning to happen in the middle, the mattress itself is a pocket sprung with memory foam. I have been advised to buy a second mattress as to take pressure off the slats personally I think the mattress has pushed the sides of bed out because it cannot take the pressure could my thinking be right or would a second mattress be the answer?

Thanks Lee .

1 Answer

Lee Staff

answered 12 years ago

Hi again Lee.

I’m sorry but we are really at a loss.

The plastic sheaths should have two lugs that sit in appropriately sized holes on the side of your frame.

If they are popping out it could be that there was a manufacturing fault with the ‘holes’ being too big for the lugs to sit tightly.

If the plastic sheaths stay in place and the slats are dropping out then the only reason we can think of is that you may have slats for a double bed and not a king size.

If you are unable to have a replacement set sent out to you from the retailer then consider replacing them with solid slats that stretch across the entire frame from side to side (a good timber merchant will cut these to size and shouldn’t cost that much).

I’m not convinced of the second mattress theory.

A bed frame should be capable of supporting a mattress.

If it dosn’t – and it obviously isn’t – then it’s not doing the job it is supposed to.

Let us know what the outcome is.

I really would contact the retailer and explain the situation.

John and Ryan.