My bed frame is rather squeaky, unfortunately for myself it makes anything that I would like to be a little more private less so. My roommates always know when my boyfriend and I have had sex, which I don’t mind so much, but I gather they could live without that piece of information. Not only does it distract me during, because I’m wondering who can hear my bed, or his, and what they are thinking, but the noise is unruly to all…
It’s a pretty standard frame, wooden head and foot boards, metal “box spring” sort of dealie attaching each end, then the mattress on top… anything I can do to help this?
In addition to this, my boyfriends bed is also rather squeaky, though it started out solid… essentially this seems to be a problem, and I would enjoy that it wasn’t… His bed is all wood, complete with drawers underneath, you would expect this to be rather sturdy, let me tell you, it
So I reach out to you, fellow dopers, present me with a bed frame that won’t get squeaky! Or! Something to remedy this problem…
What are your floors like? That can play a big role on the amount of motion the bed gets.
Usually, if it’s really just a squeaky frame, you can tighten the screws/bolts and in extreme circumstances re-enforce them sturdy steel L-brackets or gussets. Before you bother with buying a new frame, try that.
If the squeak is the mattress springs, you are probably screwed and need to buy a new mattress.
We had that problem, so we got rid of the bed frame. Now we have a futon mattress on the floor; basically a canvas bag stuffed with cotton. It’s comfy.
A few weeks ago my six year old son told me he heard something creepy at night, like a ghost going “Ooooohh…uuuhhh…oohhh…aaahhh”, so I guess they can still hear us. Oops.
Definitely tighten those bolts. The guest bed at my parents’ house was like this for a long time, so we’d have to go r—e---a—l---l—y s—l---o—w---l—y, or do it on the floor or something. Every time I’d be working my magic I’d think, “next time I visit I’m bringing some tools to fix this fucker”. Then of course, I’d forget. About a year ago we were there and my parents were finally out of the house, so I brought some of my dad’s tools up, removed the mattress and box spring, and got to work.
That night we were bumping uglies in beautiful, peaceful quiet.
Mine was really squeaky, though it is essentially a mattress on top of a box spring on top of a metal frame with wheels. I traced the noise back to the rusted wheel pivot. I sprayed some WD-40 in there and haven’t had a problem since.
You could try re gluing the wood joints. Make sure you clamp it for a good 24 hours to keep the joint strong.
Our bed wasn’t squeeky at first and we are starting to have issues with that after only a few months. I just love being woken up in the middle of the night with the bed shaking like an 3.0 earthquake just happened because my husband just rolled over in his sleep.
The whole idea of beds is antiquated. If your place is rodent and insect infested to the extent that you need a raised platform to sleep on, the bed isn’t your largest issue.
It would be too time consuming to throw the mattress on the floor two times a day… not to mention annoying… I cant really take the bed apart, as I am in a dorm, and they need ittttt.
Seriously, you need rubber strips between all parts that meet. When wood meets wood or metal, or metal meets metal or wood, squeaks are hard to stop. Any hardware store should be able to sell you something like flat rubber sheets that will cost you less than 20 bucks. Remove the frame and cut out rubber strips to be installed between rails/frame/head board…wherever parts meet. Screws go right through them, and the rubber will insulate all parts from eachother.
I’m going for the box spring and mattress only set up in my new apartment, that I think will keep any squeaking to a minimum. She’ll just have to work on keeping the vocals down if we need to be quiet.
