Carpenter to Dissemble Bed?
I have posted on the Forum earlier this week with a bit of a saga regarding a queen size box spring that won’t make it up the steps of my tight steps to top floor of Victorian. I was suggested to me on here to purchase a split box spring, which I didn’t even know…
I have posted on the Forum earlier this week with a bit of a saga regarding a queen size box spring that won’t make it up the steps of my tight steps to top floor of Victorian. I was suggested to me on here to purchase a split box spring, which I didn’t even know existed, and is a great idea, but one is $350 incl delivery. A company to come and dissemble/reassemble the box spring is $250. Can anyone recommend a handyperson whose skills would encompass this kind of work and be willing to do this relatively small job for maybe $100? We (enough family members) are available to do the heavy lifting part (carrying it up the steps). Thanks in advance.
I found a diagram of how a boxspring is constructed (link below). It looks like you would need to cut through the small wood piece on the middle of both of the long sides of the mattress, cut through the fabric, and fold the box spring back on itself (double with topside facing topside). The issue would be whether this wrecked that edge wire when you opened it back up again. Probably fine. So you’d have to install a metal bracket to the wood piece to strengthen it again when in place and sew the fabric back together. Seems DIY if you’re game for it.
http://tinyurl.com/boxspring
I never thought how big a project this would be. Our contractors don’t want to do it as they are on other jobs and the tradespeople they have at our (tiling, plumbing right now) don’t want to do something they know nothing about. I emailed 20 men with vans and noone has responded. (sigh)
BTW there was a platform bed up there when we bought the place….it’s an attic that has been converted to bedroom and a bath. We had to saw the platform (old, rotted) in half to get it out. Windows are small, mullioned panes that lie about where they lay….ooops, I mean there are small mullioned sidelight windows on either side of a larger center window, too small for anything to get through.
Well, if it’s too big to make the turn at the top of the stairs, it’s probably not going to fit in a window…
Also, if you end up going the route of a platform for it, beware of the same problem.
You’d have to get two twin platforms (or captain’s beds) and screw them together.
Won’t one of your contractors just take it apart and put it back together? I mean –
how hard could it be? (Not saw through it – but take it apart the way that it was put together.)
Then, you could go to one of the discount fabric stores on Fulton St. and get that padded fabric to cover it back up and staple gun it on…
What about bringing up the outside through a window? Two strapping young men on the roof with a bit of rope.
Dissemble means: Hide or conceal. That should be easy for a guy with a van. 🙂
why do you want to lie to your bed?
don’t you just want to lay on it?
Box springs are so outdated. Get a platform bed with a mattress and do your daughter’s back a favor (or use slats on your existing box frame, $20 at the lumber store). She’ll thank you, and you’ll never have this problem again.
EXACTLY
My thought when I allowed the mover to do it was that I was going to have to get rid of the boxspring if it didn’t fit, so why not give the dismantling/remantling a shot?