If I buy a Full size platform bed, can I buy this and use this in place of the wood slats they give you? I'd like to sleep, not die.
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The platform bed works in place of your box springs and slats are not needed. If you currently have a bed frame, like a sleigh bed or something similar, and you need to be sure that this platform will fit inside the bed frame, you should measure very carefully. We did not have a bed frame so it was not an issue for us.
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:) Yes this is a million times better than wood slats. It is a complete foundation system that fully supports a mattress without a box spring. And it comes with brackets to mount a headboard and footboard if you so choose. It's high off the floor so if you tried to use a box spring too, you'd need a step stool to get on your bed. It's designed with enough support to keep your mattress warranty intact with or without a box spring while many other frames would not. My husband and I are large people and it fully supports us. Just be sure to buy a full size platform...full size is 4 inches narrower than a queen size. :) Yes this is a million times better than wood slats. It is a complete foundation system that fully supports a mattress without a box spring. And it comes with brackets to mount a headboard and footboard if you so choose. It's high off the floor so if you tried to use a box spring too, you'd need a step stool to get on your bed. It's designed with enough support to keep your mattress warranty intact with or without a box spring while many other frames would not. My husband and I are large people and it fully supports us. Just be sure to buy a full size platform...full size is 4 inches... » Read More :) Yes this is a million times better than wood slats. It is a complete foundation system that fully supports a mattress without a box spring. And it comes with brackets to mount a headboard and footboard if you so choose. It's high off the floor so if you tried to use a box spring too, you'd need a step stool to get on your bed. It's designed with enough support to keep your mattress warranty intact with or without a box spring while many other frames would not. My husband and I are large people and it fully supports us. Just be sure to buy a full size platform...full size is 4 inches narrower than a queen size. « Show Less
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:) Yes this is a million times better than wood slats. It is a complete foundation system that fully supports a mattress without a box spring. And it comes with brackets to mount a headboard and footboard if you so choose. It's high off the floor so if you tried to use a box spring too, you'd need a step stool to get on your bed. It's designed with enough support to keep your mattress warranty intact with or without a box spring while many other frames would not. My husband and I are large people and it fully supports us. Just be sure to buy a full size platform...full size is 4 inches narrower than a queen size.
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Yes. I use this in place of the bedframe that originally came with the mattress and box spring. I also don't use the box spring any more. Works great
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I wouldn't recommend doing that. It's a good bed but I just have a mattress on and I can't imagine the slats supporting a box spring and a mattress
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It depends on the size of your wood frame. Mine is a king size and the frame is exactly the size of the mattress. I had a bed custom made and told them not to put any slats or supports for the mattress, as well as having them build the side railings to the exact height of this metal frame. Measure the interior dimensions of your wood frame; you may be able to use this by removing any existing mattress supports.
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Wow, that sounds like a nice idea, but I'm really not sure. The mattress fits exactly on top of this platform so the platform might slip down inside the frame like a box spring would, but you might have to remove any hardware on the inside of the wooden frame that is built to hold the box spring in place because this hardware will interfere with the metal platform as it has legs to rest on the floor. I would check on the return policy and give it a try because this platform is a brilliant alternative to a box spring. It was easy to set up and way comfortable.
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These are not slats. There are full boards on this bed. You would have a 3 foot high bed, but I guess if that's what you want to do, you could do it.
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sorry we bought ours in queen size, but this bed comes with so many slats and they are so close together you may not need the plywood. The slats sit within a inch or two of each other and give very good support to our tempurpedic even though it is only queen size. sleep well !!!
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You have to use a boxspring with this bed. However I hacked it by going to Home Depot and buying planks that I could lay down in order to turn it into a platform bed.
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I bought this mattress for my son who has a platform bed. The bed had wooden slats as the platform, which I didn't feel would be strong enough. We bought 3/4 inch plywood and laid it over the slats.works perfect.
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If the platform bed has a solid wood surface for the mattress it will perform the best for you. If the bed frame had wide spaced slats or rails, buy some plywood to use as a base under the mattress. Platform beds with very close spaced slats should work well with this mattress.
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what type of bed frame...if it's a platform..or close slats....fine.. if or just go to home depot and cut 2 (40 x30 ) boards...to put under it
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If you have a platform bed with slats that are meant to be used with no foundation/boxspring, you can lay any mattress on them, including a memory foam mattress. I have used a memory foam mattress directly on slats since 2005 and it works just fine.
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You will need slats or an actual bed frame with good strong ledges on sides and a beam through the middle with legs. Otherwise, it can shift and tip, sending you through the bed and onto the floor. I put mine on top of the slats that came with my platform bed (my memory foam mattress was so malleable that we kept popping the slats out, so this fixed that issue). I had originally tried it without the slats, but the ledges on the side weren't wide enough to support it without it shifting.
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If you don't use a box spring, you need to buy slats for the bed frame which is what I did
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You can use a regular box spring, or an Ikea bed with the slats will hold fine.
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I have mine on an inexpensive platform bed I purchased from Amazon. It uses slats underneath to support the mattress. I love it; very cheap, very comfortable solution to needing an additional bed.
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Yes, that's what we did. I do recommend that you get additional slats for better support. The few that it comes with really are not sufficient.
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I did not put plywood on top of the slats. I got a good mattress and the bed is really comfortable. Since the closely spaced wooden slats are essentially the same as having plywood, I don't think another 1/2 inch of wood would do anything. This bed frame is not meant to have box springs. I've been very happy with the bed frame.