Slats & Slat Beds
We at Bedworks love to educate our customers. The mattress and furniture industry can be very confusing, so we try to provide specs, info and helpful tips to assist our customers in making educated decisions when purchasing. Sleep well, be happy!
Problems with Bed Slats
- Beds require 10-13 slats to support a mattress. These slats often squeak. Couples find the squeaking annoying.
- Bed slats bow. They sag under the weigh of 350-500 pounds, the weight of one mattress plus two humans. As they sag, the mattress sags, and so do the sleepers' spines.
- Slats can't take serious weight in one spot. Getting up on one knee to grab the phone or shut a window can break a slat.
- Slats have gaps between them, to save cost. Because they have gaps and support less than one-half the mattress, they work like a barbecue grill. They grill the mattress and cause it to wear out sooner.
- Slats waste valuable hardwoods. The slats for a bed consume nearly twice as much hardwood as the rest of the bed. [ie., the headboard headboard, footboard and side rails.]
- The headboards of slat beds act like long levers. Leaning against headboards often loosens side rails & causes headboard to wiggle.
- Slat bed side rails often break in the unsported middle.
- To many people's eyes, the longer legs of slatted beds claim vertical space. They say that makes their bedrooms seem small.
- When you add drawers to a slat bed, you get a boxy "Captain's Bed" look.
- Makers of memory foam mattresses don't warranty their mattresses on slat beds. So having slat beds limits mattress choice.
- Slat bed legs greet you in the dark at all four corners and cause stubbed toes.
