This thing was not fun to assemble. My hands still hurt. But, now that its done, it seems fine. Havent used it yet, but it looks like it will be fine for when kids come to spend the night.
I just got this about 5pm today, was very happy with the speedy delivery , started right away to set it up got all the frame work up very nicely.It seems to be sturdy enoughBIG PROBLEM am dont know how to get the plastic tab lock in and i really dont think its because am a woman.Am i gonna have to send this back??
We bought this for our two girls, 6 4. We dont have long term plans for this bed//maybe a year or two until the 6 year old is comfortable enough to transition to her own room/and I am sure that the bed isnt made to last long term. I do have to say that the package arrived quickly and nothing was damaged. In putting the bed together, I quickly realized how poorly the instructions were written. We had put together a bunkbed/futon combo the previous night for our oldest child and those instructions were much more informative.
As we put together the bunkbed, we became familiar with those nasty plastic tabs everyone talks about. They a a total pain in the neck and I eventually gave up and let my hubby finish because he is much stronger. Some tabs went in easily and some were extremely hard. There is a trick to them in that you have to make sure they are facing the right direction before you try to press them in.
When e bed was all put together, my husband commented on how much sturdier the bed is compared to the other one we put together. I do agree. However, when my 55 pound kid climbs up the ladder, the whole bed creaks and shakes. Im not confident it would safely hold the 300 lbs. it claims to hold on each level. I am neutral on this bed. It was cheap, arrived quickly and will serve its purpose. If I planned on keeping it around for a long time, Id probably knock off another star.
The item look good ,just they send me one was little broken.the top twin one pillar was bend little bit .I was very hard to connect it,and the white color little bit get rusty.everything just so so.
Assembly took about 12 hours including 2 trips to home depot after I lost a screw and then some washers. They really cant give you *any* extra washers! Is it too costly for them?
And, as another reviewer stated, snapping these little plastic tabs into I think 20 slots is hugely difficult. Many of the plastic pieces simply do not fit and we had to leave them out and the bed slats loose.
This isnt the best loft bed in the world, but it is a loft bed that provides more space and room for smaller bedrooms or rooms that need it. I would suggest getting some sort of padding to put on the ladder parts of the loft because those metal bars can sure hurt your feet when climbing in and out of bed. The nice part about this product is that it provides ALL the space underneath loft, instead of having a desk that can get in the way if you just want to store things or put some sort of furniture underneath. Overall this product is good, but not the best.
The bed shipped quickly. The hardest part was there was a leg missing and no directions included. Once it was together, my daughter loved it though. Nice sturdy construction.
To be perfectly fair, Ive assembled worse products than this. No wait.I havent. This was the most annoying DIY furniture item Ive ever built.
The items are packaged flat, surrounded by thin styrofoam, and in a thin box. The box will be largely destroyed, the foam ends up disintegrated, but at least the parts seem to have made it without bending or denting. I did some of that with a hammer in frustration later though.
There was a great effort to break this up into as many little parts as possible to make the box small. That means youll be doing a lot of fine assembly. The instructions are terrible. I ended up looking at the part numbers (each piece has a number sticker on it) for general reference, then laid everything out until I could figure out by eye which pieces were oriented in which manner.
Once I had figured out the two main end assemblies, the rest starts to go together and you feel like youre making good progress. Then you get to the mattress support rails. There are around 30 or so of them, they slip into a groove on either end into the sides of the frame, and then you have to drive a little plastic piece into the slot over the rail and that locks it in place. Except some of the rails are a little out of round at the end and some of the plugs are too big to fit. I ended up using a pair of offset pliers to force the tabs in after having several shoot across the room and one slip inside the rail. By the way, you cannot get the tabs out of the side rail if you drop one in. So ours will have a little rattle but there were a few extras. Which is good, because youll need them! I broke at least 5/6. Between the pliers and a very small hammer, I was eventually able to install all of the support rails. This portion took me longer than the rest of the assembly.
Once put together, the item has a little end to end jiggle, but its pretty strong. The ladder steps are going to need some foam noodles slipped over them as theyre thin and really hard on the feet.
Only other observations I can make are that in a standard ceilinged room youre going to have just a couple of feet between the top of the mattress and the ceiling. Okay for now with my 7 year old but when hes 12 or 13 I might have to put a pad on the ceiling over his head! Its also completely unlikely that youll be able to remove this bed from the room you build it in without some disassembly. Sadly, to do any kind of significant breakdown, youll have to remove all of those plastic lock tabs and all of the rails and then put them back in. Im pretty sure that would not be possible since youd break most or all of the tabs and there arent enough spares to do a rebuild.
Nice to have more space in his room now though. I bought an intex inflatable sofa that fits right underneath and can be tossed on top to make more room. The bedframe doesnt give a ton of headroom underneath.fine for kids but at close to 6 tall the bottom of the frame is about at chest height for me. You might sneak a small desk under or you could fill it with a big dresser.
We assembled the bunk bed in about three hours. The instructions are only 8 short pages. Each page includes ONE photo but seven or eight different steps in instructions. We had to find an extra too to install the locking snaps for the bars. After 7 or 8 I lost feeling in my poor thumbs. Over all this is a VERY sturdy bunk bed but with 200 locking clips it should be! OK product, a pain to assemble and TERRIBLE instructions.
I wanted to get two beds for a small space and this accomplished that. Its not a bad buy for the price but I wished it was a bit more sturdy. When climbing up you feel like the bed MAY tip over and Im 115 lbs. I would recomend getting a twin over full for more base sturdiness.
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A pain to put together
This thing was not fun to assemble. My hands still hurt. But, now that its done, it seems fine. Havent used it yet, but it looks like it will be fine for when kids come to spend the night.
HELP HELP HELP . VERY HARD TO GET PLASTIC TABS IN.
I just got this about 5pm today, was very happy with the speedy delivery , started right away to set it up got all the frame work up very nicely.It seems to be sturdy enoughBIG PROBLEM am dont know how to get the plastic tab lock in and i really dont think its because am a woman.Am i gonna have to send this back??
Just okay. A pain to put together.
We bought this for our two girls, 6 4. We dont have long term plans for this bed//maybe a year or two until the 6 year old is comfortable enough to transition to her own room/and I am sure that the bed isnt made to last long term. I do have to say that the package arrived quickly and nothing was damaged. In putting the bed together, I quickly realized how poorly the instructions were written. We had put together a bunkbed/futon combo the previous night for our oldest child and those instructions were much more informative. As we put together the bunkbed, we became familiar with those nasty plastic tabs everyone talks about. They a a total pain in the neck and I eventually gave up and let my hubby finish because he is much stronger. Some tabs went in easily and some were extremely hard. There is a trick to them in that you have to make sure they are facing the right direction before you try to press them in. When e bed was all put together, my husband commented on how much sturdier the bed is compared to the other one we put together. I do agree. However, when my 55 pound kid climbs up the ladder, the whole bed creaks and shakes. Im not confident it would safely hold the 300 lbs. it claims to hold on each level. I am neutral on this bed. It was cheap, arrived quickly and will serve its purpose. If I planned on keeping it around for a long time, Id probably knock off another star.
little bit broken
The item look good ,just they send me one was little broken.the top twin one pillar was bend little bit .I was very hard to connect it,and the white color little bit get rusty.everything just so so.
looks good once done but a nightmare to assemble
Assembly took about 12 hours including 2 trips to home depot after I lost a screw and then some washers. They really cant give you *any* extra washers! Is it too costly for them? And, as another reviewer stated, snapping these little plastic tabs into I think 20 slots is hugely difficult. Many of the plastic pieces simply do not fit and we had to leave them out and the bed slats loose.
Its all right.
This isnt the best loft bed in the world, but it is a loft bed that provides more space and room for smaller bedrooms or rooms that need it. I would suggest getting some sort of padding to put on the ladder parts of the loft because those metal bars can sure hurt your feet when climbing in and out of bed. The nice part about this product is that it provides ALL the space underneath loft, instead of having a desk that can get in the way if you just want to store things or put some sort of furniture underneath. Overall this product is good, but not the best.
bed
The bed shipped quickly. The hardest part was there was a leg missing and no directions included. Once it was together, my daughter loved it though. Nice sturdy construction.
Bad packaging, hard to assemble, good when youre done
To be perfectly fair, Ive assembled worse products than this. No wait.I havent. This was the most annoying DIY furniture item Ive ever built. The items are packaged flat, surrounded by thin styrofoam, and in a thin box. The box will be largely destroyed, the foam ends up disintegrated, but at least the parts seem to have made it without bending or denting. I did some of that with a hammer in frustration later though. There was a great effort to break this up into as many little parts as possible to make the box small. That means youll be doing a lot of fine assembly. The instructions are terrible. I ended up looking at the part numbers (each piece has a number sticker on it) for general reference, then laid everything out until I could figure out by eye which pieces were oriented in which manner. Once I had figured out the two main end assemblies, the rest starts to go together and you feel like youre making good progress. Then you get to the mattress support rails. There are around 30 or so of them, they slip into a groove on either end into the sides of the frame, and then you have to drive a little plastic piece into the slot over the rail and that locks it in place. Except some of the rails are a little out of round at the end and some of the plugs are too big to fit. I ended up using a pair of offset pliers to force the tabs in after having several shoot across the room and one slip inside the rail. By the way, you cannot get the tabs out of the side rail if you drop one in. So ours will have a little rattle but there were a few extras. Which is good, because youll need them! I broke at least 5/6. Between the pliers and a very small hammer, I was eventually able to install all of the support rails. This portion took me longer than the rest of the assembly. Once put together, the item has a little end to end jiggle, but its pretty strong. The ladder steps are going to need some foam noodles slipped over them as theyre thin and really hard on the feet. Only other observations I can make are that in a standard ceilinged room youre going to have just a couple of feet between the top of the mattress and the ceiling. Okay for now with my 7 year old but when hes 12 or 13 I might have to put a pad on the ceiling over his head! Its also completely unlikely that youll be able to remove this bed from the room you build it in without some disassembly. Sadly, to do any kind of significant breakdown, youll have to remove all of those plastic lock tabs and all of the rails and then put them back in. Im pretty sure that would not be possible since youd break most or all of the tabs and there arent enough spares to do a rebuild. Nice to have more space in his room now though. I bought an intex inflatable sofa that fits right underneath and can be tossed on top to make more room. The bedframe doesnt give a ton of headroom underneath.fine for kids but at close to 6 tall the bottom of the frame is about at chest height for me. You might sneak a small desk under or you could fill it with a big dresser.
Great Item for Price/ Terrible Instructions
We assembled the bunk bed in about three hours. The instructions are only 8 short pages. Each page includes ONE photo but seven or eight different steps in instructions. We had to find an extra too to install the locking snaps for the bars. After 7 or 8 I lost feeling in my poor thumbs. Over all this is a VERY sturdy bunk bed but with 200 locking clips it should be! OK product, a pain to assemble and TERRIBLE instructions.
GOOD but not Great
I wanted to get two beds for a small space and this accomplished that. Its not a bad buy for the price but I wished it was a bit more sturdy. When climbing up you feel like the bed MAY tip over and Im 115 lbs. I would recomend getting a twin over full for more base sturdiness.
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