Creaks bed: how to eliminate the unpleasant defect?

Healthy sleep can provide a well-prepared sleeping place that meets the requirements of convenience and comfort. Usually it is a bed: soft, wide, comfortable, where good dreams occur, you can sleep and be in a good mood all day.

Sleeping bed - a place of good rest, but if the bed starts to creak, you can forget about a good dream.

High-quality and comfortable bed - a pledge of good sleep

Determine the causes of squeak

When buying a bed, many believe that the high price and expensive material guarantee the quality of sleep. But even the most expensive product can cause restless sleep, accompanied by an unpleasant squeak that interferes with rest.

The most common places from which creaking comes are angles and fixings.

Today on sale you can find a variety of sleeping beds:

• wooden or made of chipboard;
  

  Selena wooden bed with bedside table

• metal;
  

  Contemporary style metal bed

• with lifting mechanism;
  

  Variants of bed design with a lifting mechanism

• inflatable.
  

  High double air bed Intex

To the question: if the bed squeaks, what to do? - The answer is simple: you need to take action immediately. And start by finding out the cause of the unpleasant "sound" defect.

To determine the source of squeak, 1 person achieves a position on the bed at which he is heard, 2 by ear tries to determine the source

Unfortunately, such “songs” are not at all uncommon. Experts believe: the main cause of squeaking is friction of individual elements of the product, which occurs:

• as a result of poor build quality;
• in places of fastenings;
• at the joints;
• with prolonged use.

Check the mattress and frame for the presence of creaking separately

There are other reasons that lead to the appearance of a defect that is not related to the lifetime:

• permanent increased loads;
• environmental exposure, leading to a change in the geometry of the product;
• loosen fasteners.

The creak may come from different parts of the bed: the frame, the spring mattress, the metal mesh installed on the base of the tree.

If the mattress and the frame do not creak - perhaps the creak appears in the place of fastening of the slats.

If a wooden bed squeaks

A bed on a wooden base can cause a lot of trouble with a creak if the parts are cracked or, on the contrary, were saturated with moisture in a damp room. The loss of the shape of the product leads to an increase in the gaps and gaps and the appearance of “bed songs”.

Determine how the butt joint of the bed frame is arranged in the place where the squeak comes from

It is necessary to start the inspection by checking the place where the bed is installed: it often happens: it is on an uneven floor, so it is enough to find a suitable place and move it to a smooth surface to get rid of annoying “music”.

If it is impossible to fully tighten the butt joint with a bolt, we put an extra washer on the bolt so that it takes up free space between the bolt and the bed frame element

Disconnect the frame parts included in the problematic butt joint

The source of unpleasant sounds can be a spring mattress. Experienced home wizards advise to check it, stacking at various points: it is possible that the place of the problem will be detected.

If the problem lies in the spring block or the mattress, you need to position the mattress or spring block exactly and try to find the cause

It is believed that it is possible to remove it by elementary movement: simply turning the mattress over with the other side. However, if the "sound" is strong enough, the product is better to exchange.

You can turn the mattress on the other side or just flip it over.

When the bed is used for a long time, she has:

• legs may become loose and weaken;
• wooden construction becomes less stable, and squeaks - louder.

Wooden furniture tends to shrink, thereby creating a gap between the parts (problem areas) that rub against each other, creating a creak

You can eliminate them in several ways:

• if the fasteners are weakened, it is quite simple to solve the problem: it is necessary to tighten it with wrenches;
• rub the joints with paraffin, soap or silicone;
• Large gap pave pieces of dense tissue or skin.

You can use the universal spray WD-40, sprinkling them all the connecting places of the bed, before you tighten the bolts with nuts too tight

However, it is considered most effective to use special rubber glue or metal clips, depending on the nature of the damage.

Rubber glue creates a reliable flexible gasket and at the same time glue together all the processed elements

The peculiarity of the work with glue lies in the fact that:

• the design will have to be completely disassembled;
• carefully put glue on each part and let it dry a little;
• connect all elements of the structure, tightly pressing them;
• return fasteners in place.

At the same time, it should be remembered that after a thorough sizing the wooden bed cannot be disassembled anymore.

There is another option for laying - cork wood, cut the gasket from the cork in size, and when assembling we put it between boards or parts

Bed with lifting mechanism

In beds with a lifting mechanism, the mechanism itself is a source of squeak - it cannot be repaired and requires replacement.

Despite the fact that most of the beds are stationary wooden, you can find products with a lifting mechanism on sale.

The emergence of squeaking occurs as a result of the friction of one part about another

This construction can be a source of squeak in case:

• problems with the state of the base;
• Not all right with the lifting mechanism.

To get rid of the unpleasant "music" in the first case, you can only contact the manufacturer to replace the base - there are no other options.

The mechanism itself is usually enough to lubricate with silicone, and if necessary, tighten the fasteners.

A screw with a bad thread needs to be replaced, and the broken holes should be repaired with glue and dowel.

Eliminate the creak of the metal bed

A metal bed can also grieve with extraneous sounds, but the elimination of squeaks is quite real; the main thing is to correctly identify their source.

Special gaskets can be inserted between the rubbing parts of the metal frame of the bed.

Experts say that the options for repairing metal beds are not many:

1. Tightening the fasteners on the connection parts; special attention should be paid to the engraving washer, which should protect the nut from unscrewing. In its absence, the joints weaken very quickly. If for some reason it does not exist or it has broken, it must be installed, which will ensure the reliability of fasteners.
   

   Bed mounts need to check and tighten each of them.

2. If the source of discomfort is a metal grill (mesh), which is still found on old beds, you can try to lubricate it, although the likelihood that it will stop creaking is extremely small.

To reduce the "sound" of sleep, you can:

• to cut the legs, making the bed a little lower, this will reduce the squeaks;
• put a plywood sheet under the grid - the result will significantly soften the harsh sounds.
  

  At the bottom of the bed you can additionally lay a plywood sheet.

If legs creak

One of the reasons for the squeak may be a crack or breakage of the leg of the bed.

Quite often, the source of squeak are legs. The causes of occurrence are many, but the most frequent are:

• too high permanent loads on the surface of the bed, which can lead to the deformation of the part or its complete destruction;
• weak fixing fasteners.

The most rational solution is to tighten the connection parts; it must be done carefully.

Video: How to get rid of the squeak of the bed