We have a mattress on the floor for now & wanted to wait on a box spring for our toddler. Will it work, just without hide away feature, for now?
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No you need the box springs mattress for the straps to lock onto. hope this helps it's a great one, one of the best but you need to get the box springs first.
1544729
We have a slat base for our bed, no way to tether, works fine(just make certain it is flush to mattress before kissing your little one goodnight)
1544730
If mattress on the floor then not really need the hideaway. The reason for this product to prevent child from falling off from bed 1 or more foot high. If my son's mattress on floor then I don't need this.
1841959
My estimate is ~6 inches of clearance underneath, but you'd need to lift the bed in order to store anything. Add an inch to that to get the height of the base that your box spring will sit. When the bed is "on all fours" there may be an inch of clearance max to slide anything underneath. If the bed is sitting on a hard surface, you might be able to add a half inch to that. Of note, you MUST use a box spring to support the mattress. Otherwise, you're wasting money. I continue to be very happy with my purchase. Hope this helps!
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Imagine the letter "L", except with legs. The bottom part of the L is what slides under your mattress, holding the whole contraption upright beside your bed. So you need to have a mattress on your sofa bed for that part to slide under. It also has a strap to go around the boxspring, and I think you could use it to secure it to the platform of the sofa bed. So it should work as long as you leave the sofa bed unfolded and secure the strap firmly, although it may not be secure enough to withstand a lot of heavy use.
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We haven't yet, and find this is a problem given the bed we are using, which has no slat close enough to the bottom of the mattress to allow us to tuck in the top sheet. The bed's already pretty high, so we're thinking bunkie boards. It's perfectly comfortable without a box spring.
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I think it eliminates the need for a box spring. My mattress is directly on top of it. It's not a traditional mattress, though, it's a knock-off sleep number.
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The mattress thickness won't make any difference - it will just stand up a little higher, but it should work fine. The biggest issue is being able to secure it to the "frame" of the bed. We ran the straps around the box springs, under the mattress, but you would need to run them around the upper bed frame, since it's just a thin mattress I'm assuming, and no box springs. Depending on the bed and where you want to put the rail, it could be done. It's quite easy to install.
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It has a strap that runs to the opposite side of the mattress and hooks on the box spring to secure the bed rail. Might still work but wouldn't be as secure.
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You really don't need a box spring I put the mattress on and it just the right height I think a boxspring would be too high for the child
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Yes, it slides between the mattress and the box spring. There is also a strap that can go around it and the box spring which will add stability, if needed. I use it w/o the strap.
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It should work fine. It slides in between the mattresses assuming you have box springs or underneath the mattress if you have murphy bed(in my case) or platform bed (assuming there is nothing blocking at that level such as a water bed frame. The legs adjust to the height. It slides easily to position it where it's easier to assist setting up or lying down.
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On 1 of our beds we have just the mattress. My son has this bed. He went from a box spring regular bedframe to the Hercules. He can't tell the difference and LOVES his bed. The reason I personally don't like not having a box spring is it sits closer to the floor. I am used to "climbing" into bed.
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Not at all. I put my mattress in a bedbug cover and laid down a skirt for the frame, popped the bed right on top. I even got under the frame with my wife laying on the bed to check if a box spring could prove beneficial and it would probably make the bed sag if you were to use one. The support of the frame is phenomenal, and no box spring would be better. Not to mention you'd need to jump to get into bed with one, the platform is pretty high, and if you use a deep mattress your already pretty high off the ground.
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I placed the box spring and mattress on the floor. The rails were between the box spring and mattress. Works just fine. Imagine doing the same without the box spring might work and may depend on your flooring and whether the mattress would slip, or not. These rails are awesome.
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We have a box spring with a mattress, but plywood would work. It might sit lower to the floor though. My mattress is 13 in. thick and all together sits about 3 feet off the floor.
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Remember the box spring is exactly that. It's the shape of a box. Not really any room for slack. And you definitely do not want to tear the cover while putting it on. Mattresses comes in different sizes. I did try to cover a twin box spring with a twin mattress cover but my twin box spring was actually a twin XL. You can try it if it saves you money. I also found that my local Walmart sold mattress covers but not box spring covers..
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The foam bridge's texture keeps it in place. You can remove it as well. We use a topper that also helps keep it in place and helps hide the seam and works great with no problems. We tried the straps around both mattress to keep them from separating and it worked fine but find it's not necessary if your box springs are solid or stiff.
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We did but I had to go to Home Depot and buy some 2 by 4s to put the things that go under the mattress on. It's not ideal but it's doing the trick. It would work best with a bed with a box spring.