Bangi BedroomFrames BedroomBeds FramesBedrooms Office2015 BedroomBedroom VanityBedroom InspoGuest BedroomsBedroom FurnitureForwardIKEA - MUSKEN, Bed frame. Adjustable bed sides allow you to use mattresses of different thicknesses. Sign up or log in to customize your list. Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top When washing my top mattress covers, or even if only taking them off and putting them back on, I always have trouble putting them back on without the (foam) mattress buckling inside, making bumps that are uncomfortable to sleep on. It seems like the mattress is slightly too big for the cover, so it should be slightly compressed inside the cover, but putting it on makes the compression uneven or it bends instead of compressing. Are there any tricks to put these covers on while keeping the mattress smooth? There are two tricks which my family has been using when doing this. Unfortunately it still requires some work.
First of all you should stretch it directly after washing to regain some of the size it had before washing. Especially try stretching the width of the covers. Do avoid tumble dryers as they tend to shrink it even more. Secondly, when inserting the mattress into the cover bend it halfway along the longest side before sliding it in. Then it is a matter of aligning the corners with each other. This does usually demand a little patience, time and fumbling. If you find yourself way off, you might need to bend the mattress again a little too get leverage for moving the cover. Good luck (or rather "Lykke til")! Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged bedroom or ask your own question.Noisy bed driving you crazy? Not getting the sleep you deserve because of a squeaky box spring mattress?
There are a variety of things you can do to make it stop. Silencing a squeaking bed or box spring can be fixed with some pretty simple tools and rearranging. Knowing where to check, what to tighten, what to rearrange, and where to lubricate will let you get a full nights rest.WHY DOES MY MATTRESS SQUEAK AND HOW DO I FIX MYSELF!?!?!?!Solution 1: ROTATE BOX SPRING. First thing to do is remove the mattress, and rearrange the box spring by rotating it 180 degrees. This means the end of the box spring at the head of the bed now needs to be rotated to foot of the bed. After you have rearranged the box spring part, place the mattress back on and test for squeaks.Solution 2: TIGHTEN ALL FITTINGS. Check the bed frame and headboard to make sure all nuts, screws, and bolts are tight. Sometimes if your bed frame is not tight, parts of the metal or wood will chafe against each other with every movement you make on the bed and will make noise. Tighten everything and test for squeaks.Solution 3: ADD OBJECT UNDER MATTRESS.
Add a rigid object under the mattress in different areas. Placing a book or similar object under your mattress can move the pressure off of the part of your bed that squeaks. Try moving the book to the top and then the bottom portion of the bed to see if it reduces or stops the squeaks.Solution 4: LUBRICATE BED FRAME. Remove the mattress and box spring. Spray an all purpose lubricating spray on the metal or wood frame where the screws and bolts are located. This will make it so any part of the bed frame that may be squeaking are now lubricated making the rubbing together action silenced.Lubricating the inner springs inside the box spring will help to stop a noisy bed.Solution 5: LUBRICATE INSIDE OF BOX SPRING. Remove mattress, flip box spring upward to get access to the felt cover. Tear a small hole into the center of the felt material of the box spring. Spray your lubricating spray on each of the springs and elsewhere to eliminate chafing of metal or wood. Use a stapler to reattach the felt backing.
Test to see if the squeaking has silenced.Solution 6: BUY NEW MATTRESS. If your mattress and box spring are worn out then it is most likely time to spend some money and buy a new set. Buying a memory foam mattress can sometimes be cheaper than a traditional mattress and can be more comfortable too! STOP THAT SQUEAKING BED NOW!Please Share Our DIY Repair Help and Projects... Parts: Refrigerators, Washers, Dryers, Dishwashers More "Do It Yourself" Tips, Tricks, Ideas, Repair:Which Is Best: Platform Bed, Box Spring, or Foundation? The simple answer is, “all of the above”, but there are rules and differences for what goes best under and into each mattress. Follow the rules and you will find happiness in bed. The accurate answer depends on the type of mattress that will go on top. If you follow these simple rules you will get the best possible sleep and the longest useful life for your new mattress and platform, foundation, or box spring. A genuine coil box spring is a relic from the nineteenth century.
It is an upholstered box with approximately 50-100 coil springs. The springs are much larger and heavier than any found in a mattress and are tied to each other by either four our eight pieces of natural twine. They were so well designed and made early on that they survived unchanged until the end of the twentieth century. The success of never flip innerspring mattresses made them made them obsolete. Never-flip mattresses provide the most comfort and last longest when used on a solid deck, non-yielding platform bed, or foundation. New hand-tied box springs are a very costly fringe item needed only under almost equally archaic two sided innerspring or solid latex mattresses. Box springs were created long before there were any successful mattresses with internal innersprings. From earliest recorded knowledge all cultures have sought out a way to soften whatever they are sleeping on. Technology has moved from soft leafy boughs or twigs found in a South African cave dated to use about 165,000 years ago, to stuffed-with-something mattresses in the past few hundred years.
Mattresses in the Western world in the last four or five centuries have advanced from of a bag of anything on hand that was soft and/or resilient into high-tech innersprings and designer foams. All mattresses were home made in America, up until 1855 when an upholster in NYC started offering factory-made horsehair mattresses in the British style. We were a society where few lived in cities and almost everyone lived on or next to a farm. Mattress fillings were often animal hair shaved or sheared from most any domestic animal. Horse and cattle hair and sheep’s wool were the most common. In the Deep South cotton was very commonly used to stuff mattresses for farmers and plantation owners. Slaves and poor farmers had to make do with straw and hay and weeds that had no commercial value as did cotton. Poor city dwellers often filled their mattresses with straw or hay purchased for pennies from a local horse stable. Even parts of other reeds growing in shallow water were popular in small communities as was a fluffy water reed called kapok.
Horse mane and tail hair was reserved mainly for the wealthy. When Charles P. Rogers started the mattress factory in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood in 1855, a first for this young country, a growing merchant class was happy to buy ready-made horsehair mattresses. The messy job didn’t have to be done by household servants and the mattresses were much higher quality. These early professionally made mattresses were used on existing rope beds, a bed with tightly stretched heavy rope underneath a mattress. Box springs soon appeared for the well-to-do. A brand new box spring from Shifman in New Jersey is virtually identical to one made almost 150 years ago by Charles P. Rogers. These retro box spring have a flexible top and edge. The ‘box spring’ feels sort of “springy” when you sit on the edge. Look inside and you will see between about 63 to 180 sturdy heavy gauge wire coils tied to each other by twine/cord. The best have 8 cords tied and knotted on to each coil.
This construction actually started some years earlier in buggy and stage coach seating. You can often see the outline of the coils through the cloth top of the box spring. Coil Box springs are only suited for use under a two-sided old-fashioned (retro) reversible innerspring mattress, or a solid or layered latex foam mattress without internal springs. If you put a one-sided, no flip innerspring mattress on an old-fashioned coil box spring, the mattress will wear out very prematurely and never support you properly. And you will lose much of the comfort that the mattress could have delivered if used on a foundation. Buying a new coil box spring is nearly impossible as almost all production ceased when one-sided mattresses came out fifteen years ago. “Almost” is the key word because if you have the cash, you can find a box spring maker. Just not in your local furniture or sleep shop. The mattress world has made the switch to easier to make and less costly look-alike foundations.
Foundations have replaced box springs and made the one-sided never flip mattress practical. Marshall in Toronto, McCroskey in San Francisco, Shifman, and ES Kluft still make box springs for use with their newly made retro mattresses. Be aware that the mattress industry has recently started to call anything that goes under a mattress and covered with cloth a boxspring. This means that what was called a foundation a year ago, might be called a foundation this year. Not very likely it is not going to be a coil boxspring. Doesn’t matter whether or not it has springs, making it important for you to shop carefully if you are only buying the ‘thing’ to put under an older mattress. It is easy enough to check before buying. Few retail salespeople are well informed on this topic. No mattress maker, by law, can force you to buy a new foundation or box spring to get a warranty. However the warranty can require that the mattress be used either on a firm and flat strong surface. One sided, no flip, never flip, innerspring mattresses are only to be used on a firm and flat surface such as a suitable platform bed or foundation.