Risers for beds in ERC doubles?

leaftye
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:22:05 +0000

The cases have indents in them to keep them locked together. I suppose your bed could slip off the top, but you should be in restraints if you move enough when you sleep to make that happen. There’s plenty of friction between the plastic cases and the polyester fabric. You could create more friction by putting one of those rubbery drawer mats between them, but that would make it difficult to slide out the cases to get your stuff. I can understand the concern about putting the legs on the cases, but I’d be more worried about the little legs collapsing the case more than them falling off. The cases are strong enough if you spread the load, but not if you put all of it through some little legs. If you had enough to stack at least two high, what about dismantling the frame to put the mattress directly on them? What is the frame like? I may give this a shot again if I decide to move into campus housing.

I’m not crazy about cinder blocks at all. When those things fail, they fail catastrophically. Wooden blocks when an indent for the legs would be so much safer.