Boxspring

[-Ember]

Anyone know what they are for? Beside just keeping the mattress from falling through the frame?

I have an antique frame and I love the bed, but it wasn't designed for a modern boxspring. It had a flat spring frame, lost when my mother inherited the thing 25+ years ago. This causes two problems with a modern boxspring, I've discovered. First, it doesn't sit well on the frame. It shifts and I'm afraid it is going to fall through with me on it one of these days. Second, with boxspring and mattress my bed is 39" tall (without blankets and such). I'd save about 10" if I didn't have the boxspring.

I'm thinking about building a simple wooden platform for the mattress that would fit the frame better and not shift. But I realized I don't know what a boxspring does, and if it is important for any other reasons. Anyone know?

[~*Ginger*~]

Springs are for bouncing! :abbed:

Building a frame would be alright.

Have you tried putting boards across the bottom frame to sit your boxspring on top of?

[Chesna]

I think boxspring gives structural support to the mattress. So, if you don't want a box spring, you are going to have to find a way to give support to the mattress. But,then I am a girl and I know nothing (atleast this AM.. my brain is fried!!)

Chesna

[DarkDancer]

When I was a child I had a bunk bed, which didn't come with box springs, it came with a thing called a bunky board, which is a group of boards attachbed to each other and upholstered (to give it a nice look, not that you could see it most of the time) that supported the mattress. It was maybe 2 inches think, and I used it for years.

When I moved into my new apartment I was given a brand new mattress and box springs, I put up my bed and then really wished I had kept the bunky board, because, the box spring was just a littl too big, or too small for the fram of my bed (it was just the perfectly wrong size that it wouldn't overlap the frame, nor would it go into the frame like it was supposed too). To solve this I went to the dollar store and bought 3 rubber door stops and used self tapping screws to put attach them to the inside of the frame of my bed. Since then both sides have eventually worjked their way into the fram like they are supposed to be (I should take those doorstops out, but am now not sure how, and they don't seem to be causing a problem sooo... ;) )

Well. I'm off to :zzzzZZZ: got to work later...

[Etoile]

I don't have a box spring. I personally think they are a waste of money. My bed is from IKEA and doesn't require one. It has these board things that the mattress goes one - little planks attached by nylon pieces. You can buy them separately. Maybe look into it if you have an IKEA near you. If you can't use it, it may at least give you an idea of what you could use.

[ravenmyst]

boards will work just fine, you most likely wont notice the difference. My last bed was just a mattress on planks, this one is an air mattress in a closet :)