I would like to get two 10x10x200cm wooden beams and cut them diagonally to get four very long wedges that I can use to raise my mattress base.
Is that doable or insane? And if doable, and if you're in #Berlin or #Germany, is it something I can ask Bauhaus or the like to do for me (in which case, how do you say it in German?)
@pgcd i'm not sure if cutting a whole beam diagonally is within what a baumarkt does, but you could look at https://www.material-mafia.net/ if they have stuff that already fits your needs.
a combination of shorter wedges, and shorter beams of varying thickness could also be an alternative? (i don't have a good mental image of what you want to do, and what is already there)
@pgcd also, if you're looking for a place where you can cut wood at an angle: VOB got you: https://offene-werkstaetten.org/de/werkstatt-suche
@malte Amazing!
I never even knew about that, and there's a couple places in realistic walking/BVG-carrying-stuff distance that I could try!
I'm still trying to figure out what to do, though, because it looks like I'm the only person concerned about the material stress and everybody else just plops a couple blocks under the head and call it a day.
@pgcd i mean, it depends a bit on your body-weight, and dynamic stresses, but an advantage of just lifting the head-side, is, that you could easily take that beam out if you want a stable and flat surface ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@malte yeah, I think you're right - I mean, I spent hours searching for all the variations of "will my bed crack if I raise the head" I could think of, and the only truly relevant result was somebody with my same doubt on an AU forum, who was answered with "nah mate it's good" or whatever the proper Aussie slang is.
So I guess some big-ass timber under the head (properly fixed) should be fine, but I'll be corroded by uncertainty forever =)
@pgcd we live in uncertain times ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 💜
@malte so yeah I was also thinking about placing multiple wedges (spaced by about 30cm or so I guess) but I fear it might require a lot more glue/screws to feel safe.
@malte nice website (although on WP and hence prone to repeated failure) but they don't seem to have anything I can use.
Basically I just want a "slide" under both sides of my Lattenrost so that the head is raised (for my tummy).
There are raised slatted frames but they are a) expensive and b) generally raised "from the middle" which I don't want.
I think I could simply place a beam under the head but that would place stress on the Lattenrost's frame, wouldn't it?
@pgcd i see!
i'd say, going the full length is a bit excessive, and using 5 blocks (3 along the top, and 2 half the height at the sides in the middle) should be enough if the lattenrost is not totally flimsy.
or, if your bed has 4 feet, you could simply raise 2 of them?
@malte the bed is an old Malm, so there's a "panel" at the head and one at the feet, and it's already raised a few cm (5 or less).
I would raise it further but I can't think of a stable way of doing so.
Now that we're talking, though, I'm thinking that perhaps I could use small, suitably angled wedges under the "feet" of the bed?
