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Don't let moving your king-size bed become a hassle; follow these tips to make it as easy as possible. Move the mattress and box spring. A king-size mattress can be a bit heavy. However, with the help of one or two people, you shouldn't have too much trouble moving it out of the house. The average door in an American home is 80 inches tall. Considering king-size mattresses are 80 inches by 76 inches, you shouldn't have to force it through any doorways. A California king mattress is too long to fit through the door standing up, but it is only 72 inches wide. Some beds, like platform beds, don't come with a box spring. If your bed does come with a box spring, it is usually very light and shouldn't be a problem aside from being a bit awkward and bulky to carry. To save space, the mattress and box spring can easily be placed on their sides, standing up, inside a moving van. Disassemble the bed frame. Trying to move most king bed frames without disassembly is going to be very difficult, especially if the bed has a king headboard.
When you buy king beds, make sure to keep the assembly directions so you know how to do it in reverse. With some basic tools, you shouldn't have too much trouble. If you have a storage king bed, make sure to empty all the drawers and remove them from the frame. You'll want to replace the empty drawers in the moving van to give extra support to the frame, but it will be lighter to carry outside without them. Wrap it and pack it. After you get it outside, wrap the bed frame completely in blankets to prevent scratching, especially if you have a wooden bed frame. You can secure the blankets over the king bed frame with duct tape. Once you arrive at your location, just repeat these steps in reverse.The Problem: Large Mattress Won't Fit Up the Stairs Need a Bigger Bed.....A few years ago, I needed to upgrade from a full size mattress to a queen size. The occasion for this change was that I had gotten engaged. There’s obviously more to that story, right? Well, I’ll make that long story very short by saying, I’m still single.
But at the time, I was faced with a problem. Well, two problems if you count being engaged, but besides that, I had the problem of needing to get a queen size bed up my stairway that was simply not high enough at one point to allow a mattress and box springs of that size to fit through. I have four suggestions for solving this problem—not the engagement, the other problem—and each will require a bit of an adjustment. The first two suggestions will require an adjustment to your house. The second two suggestions will require an adjustment to your attitude about beds. If the Mattress Won't Fit Up the Stairway, Don't Take it Out on the Mattress First Suggestion for Getting a Large Mattress Upstairs: Take out the Steps in the StairwayI’ll begin with the method I chose for moving the bed to the upstairs bedroom. This will require an adjustment to your house. I had the mattress wedged through the doorway and into the stairway, and it wasn’t going any further, that much was clear.
After assessing the situation, I decided that if the step blocking the way was gone, the bed would go up. So I took all the steps out of the stairway up to and including the one blocking the progress. The next step also blocked the bed. So I removed that step and the next one blocked the way as well. After I had all the steps in the first flight out, the bed fit. The secret in using this method without the trial and error process is to measure the width of the mattress from the bottom edge on one side, to the top edge on the other. This will provide you with the widest measurement for the width of the mattress. Now measure the distance from each step to the closest place on the ceiling. Find the narrowest opening (step to ceiling) and take out the steps up to that point. You should be able to get the bed through. Measure the Mattress at Its Widest Dimension, i.e. Diagonally, Corner to Corner Second Suggestion for Getting a Large Mattress Upstairs: Put the Mattress Through an Upstairs WindowThe second suggestion that will require an adjustment to your house is to remove an upstairs window, casing and all.
Be sure to measure the window and the bed before you start to be sure the bed will fit through. If it will fit, just find a way to get the mattress and box spring up to and through the window, and you are all set. Split Queen or King Size Beds Will Fit Through Most Tight Spaces Third Suggestion for Getting a Large Mattress Upstairs: Purchase a Split Queen or King Size BedThe next two possible solutions will require an adjustment to your attitudes about beds because I will be suggesting alternative types of beds to what we are accustomed too. The first will require the least amount of adjustment on your part. Typically we purchase a mattress and box spring in a total of two pieces. Queen and king size beds can be purchased as two mattresses and two box springs, thereby enabling them to fit up the stairway. These are referred to as a split queen and a split king. A queen size bed is about 60” wide and a king is about 76” wide. So just cut those numbers in half to know how big each half of the split bed will be.
Fourth Suggestion for Getting a Large Mattress Upstairs: Look Into Alternative Types of BedsMy next suggestion is to consider something other than the traditional mattress and box spring for your upstairs bedroom. There are several options such as the Sleep Number Bed, water beds and air beds. Many people apparently like the Sleep Number Bed, but they are expensive. Water beds can present weight issues for second floor bedrooms. Let me give my personal experience with the Aerobed brand of air bed. I travel full time in my work, so I am constantly changing apartments and beds. While in Philadelphia, I rented a third floor apartment with an extremely small staircase in every dimension. Only after signing the rental agreement did I think about a bed, since the apartment was not furnished. The only traditional bed that would have fit would have been a twin. So I began researching alternatives. I ended up at Bed, Bath and Beyond, looking at the Aerobed. They have an assortment of options, including heights, widths as well as with and without inflatable headboards.