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Originally Posted by searchinferu
Well Mckinnly, you would not then see how they were built, but more like how they got 'unbuilt'!
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Short of seeing them put together in the first place - and being 22 years old I doubt they're building them the same way now - the best way for me to see how it's made is to take it apart. Unfortunately some things don't come apart easy and get destroyed in the process. I'd rather deconstruct something that doesn't HAVE to go back together again. It's kinda like having physicans train on cadavers. Cadavers don't squawk as much as living victims(ahem) specimens.
Foam core wall wouldn't necessarily be a show-stopper, but it would mean de-skinning the inside wall to provide a wiring chase. That's a LOT more work than pulling cables through an existing chase. In mine it'd mean taking pretty much everything else off the inside wall - upper cabinets, furniture, trim, etc. Lots of work.
Speaking of bed bases, the platform for the bed in mine was 1/8" plywood skins with 1x4 frame - 3/4" thick - inbetween and styrofoam in the open bays between the framing. That *might* have been good, but they used a poor adhesive and only on one side and staples to put it all together, so the platform was falling a part. I deconstructed mine and built a new one using 1" thick XPS foam. The top skin plywood had a vinyl skin, which I reused, but the bottom skin was in too bad shape to reuse. I found some 1/8" lauan at Home Despot to use instead, with wood glue to bond the wood, and construction adhesive to bond the foam to the skins - both sides. Also, I noticed the original platform was about an inch shy of standard dimensions for a normal queen mattress, so I rebuilt at the standard size. The new platform is quite rigid.
The original platform used nylon straps to hold the mattress in place: I used 1x4 to make a lip both sides and foot of the platform to hold the mattress in place.
Finally, I bought some new gas springs and rearranged the geometry on the gas springs to make the bed platform raise high enough that the mattress touches the ceiling to provide ample access to the doghouse under the bed. Alas, I second-guessed myself and got weaker springs than my original estimate, which turned out to be too weak. So, I used both the new springs and the old springs, which, while less elegant than just two springs, works perfectly. The platform stays down when it's down, up when it's up, and it's easy to lift even with the weight of the mattress.
This week hopefully I'll get a new hot water heater installed and some leaky pipes in the wet bay fixed. Unfortunately the weather in central Texas isn't being very cooperative: either too cold or too wet. I'm allergic to cold: it makes my nose run and I break out in goosebumps all over. I gotta get my BFR this week, too - had it scheduled for last Thursday but ceiling was too low. Rescheduled for this Wednesday, but looks like that's not going to work either. As of now I'm grounded.
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