Beds for fat b@stards

Hey guys,

Just had my third bed in the last three years expire on me, it seems slatted beds have trouble handling myself at 130kg, especiallly if me and the missus fancies some bedroom cardio.

Any of you heavyweights have problems with beds? Am trying to find a bed suitable for heavier people but struggling to find something decent that suits my weight and the other halfs style requirements!

Anyone got any recommendations?

Solid oak furniture land.

I'm 135 kilos ish and have had bed trouble in the past, but their stuff seems remarkably robust and well made, and so far, so good.

Certainly worth a look

That may not be the exact name but it's something very similar to that, the advertize on TV

We've a solid oak bed with decent pine slats and more of them and a very good but expensive non-turn mattress with a pocket-sprung topper to it

I'm generally 133kg to 140kg and the bed has never had any issues with me. I'm 6ft 4 too so we needed a big bed full-stop! Kingsize at a minimum...

Unfortunately buy cheap, you get cheap!

Oakfurnitureland is pricey (we bought our dining room suite from there at around £1k for a table and 6 chairs) but the quality is VERY good indeed (even my pal who's a well respected wood worker agreed that they knock out good stuff)!

We got our bed from Scartop Pine up here and the mattress from an independent bed specialists

Ive averaged a bed a year from 2003.

#Gainzzzzzzz

If cost is an issue, rather than forking out on solid wood beds, the cheaper bed frames themselves are often fine, but ditch the slats, get down the local timber merchants and get a couple of solid 7 ply boards cut to size and put them across the supports the slats would have gone on. Did me fine.

Seconded - Although I'm not the biggest I have a £99 ikea bed with slats that fall through the bed because they're made to incorrect size. I got a couple of sturdy ply boards to put across and no issues.

im not even heavy but I broke the strip of wood that the slats rest on, and fixed it with scraps of wood I had in the garden. The frame of most beds is plenty strong, like VG said. Modifiy a standard bed to make it stronger.