My favorite thing to happen in the Middle of the Night...

[TehMac]

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I had just re-stapled the slats to the line of cable as well...

 

[Printer Bandit]

ikea, what did you expect?

 

[Iron Woode]

My favorite thing to happen in the Middle of the Night...

surprise buttsecks?

 

[zanejohnson]

ROFL the other night i heard a loud crash and went to investigate, and it was my little bro that lives with me's bed breaking all to shit, i came in and he was on the ground! ROFL!!

 

[TehMac]

ikea, what did you expect?

for their futons to not defy the law of gravity? srsly how the fuck does this even happen?

The slats are resting on bolted in metal supports.

 

[OCGuy]

wet-dream

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Why are you sleeping in a midget bed?

 

[weirdichi]

Hmm.. I have the queen sized version of that bed with the exact slats. How long after you bought it did this happen? I want to anticipate this.

 

[TehMac]

Hmm.. I have the queen sized version of that bed with the exact slats. How long after you bought it did this happen? I want to anticipate this.

have had this thing since August 2011. Symptoms started in late Nov '12.

 

[BrokenVisage]

In the middle of the night (middle of the night)
I go walking in my sleep (walking in my sleep)
From the mountains of faith (mountains of faith)
To the river so deep (river so deep)

 

[Ferzerp]

I had just re-stapled the slats to the line of cable as well...

What exactly did you think the strip of plastic was going to do?

 

[TehMac]

What exactly did you think the strip of plastic was going to do?

what it's been doing for the last year and a half: helping hold the slats in place

but it's not like I wiggle around. sometimes all I do is just lean on that side, and the stupid thing collapses. No idea why.

 

[weirdichi]

I believe those slats have a 25 year warranty. Maybe you can go exchange them.

 

[Newbian]

I love that you are hiding the hobbit book under your bed.

Does it have some hot elf porn in it to deserve a spot like that?

 

[Baked]

This is what happens when your parents didn't buy you LEGO growing up.

I've never had an IKEA construction set break on me like me.

PS. I spy a copy of hobbit porn underneath the bed. That's hot.

 

[TehMac]

I believe those slats have a 25 year warranty. Maybe you can go exchange them.

thats a great idea!

I love that you are hiding the hobbit book under your bed.

Does it have some hot elf porn in it to deserve a spot like that?

err...it's actually the Hollywood Reporter, and it has some hawt Peter Jackson action in it.

 

[TehMac]

This is what happens when your parents didn't buy you LEGO growing up.

I've never had an IKEA construction set break on me like me.

I had a shit ton of legos, just not sure what that has to do with this bed being able to defy the laws of physics.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

lol, I had slat problems myself years ago, and it got to the point that I only had three functional ones remaining. At some point one of them snapped, and from that point I've just been using a second mattress on the bottom in their stead. I actually have forgotten what it was even like to have bed slats.

 

[Jimmah]

This happened to my sons bed. Simple fix was to add a 1x6 down the centre and screw it all together, with the centre slats eing screwed into the frame. Now it`s solid and much stronger, you could easily triple the weight load without issue.

 

[TehMac]

thing is, all of the slats are in one piece--they're not caved in, it's just when you leap into bed from a certain angle, or even just roll in bed, or try to leave the bed from a certain angle, the arrangement caves in, for no apparent reason!

is there some kind of scientific explanation?

 

[schneiderguy]

is there some kind of scientific explanation?

Your balls are too big.

 

[TehMac]

TehMac has big balls

 

[djnsmith7]

I don't shop at Ikea.

 

[disappoint]

I had a shit ton of legos, just not sure what that has to do with this bed being able to defy the laws of physics.

By defy the laws of physics do you mean hold up this long? That's a horribad design.

 

[TehMac]

By defy the laws of physics do you mean hold up this long? That's a horribad design.

my theory is that the mattress + my weight is flexing the slats, and since two of them are broken off the cable, they slide, and as they slide, the rest fall off as well.

thats all I can think of, because tbh, they're all resting perpendicularly on the metal rests.