Folding Bed with Mattress

About this piece

A twin frame, sized for a 38 x 75 in mattress. Put together it stands 38 in wide by 76 in deep by 16 in high. Shipping weight is 48.2 lb.

Structurally it is built from steel frame, rated to 450 lb.

It runs on lockable castors, so it moves between rooms and then stays where it is put.

Details worth knowing: the feet adjust, so a floor that is slightly out does not make it rock.

A frame is judged after the first month rather than in the photograph. Slat spacing keeps the mattress flat, the centre legs keep the middle from dropping, and damped slat bearings are what keep it silent.

A bedroom is planned around one number nobody prints: the walking space left once the bed is in. Two feet on any side you use, thirty inches at the foot if there is a route past it. Frame dimensions rather than mattress dimensions are the ones to measure with, and they are on every page in bedroom. The full arithmetic is in The Bed Frame Guide: Slats, Storage and Why Beds Squeak.

The same specification table appears on every page of iPormis bed frames, which is the point of publishing it: two models are only comparable when the same figures are given for both.