[Ansteorra] slat bed question

[Baronman at aol.com]

My set up for our queen size camp bed is exactly like yours except I put on 
 a tongue and groove headboard to keep the pillows in their place and I 
glued hot  water heater reflective insulation onto the plywood underlayment.  
This has  been good down to 25 degrees with no problems.  I use a single 
queen air  mattress with a cotton zip on mattress cover for good measure.
Bors
 
 
In a message dated 2/9/2010 5:48:30 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
sueorintx at hotmail.com writes:


That  should have been signed...Lyneya (who was talking on the phone and 
hit  send)

Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher  Ulrich



> From: sueorintx at hotmail.com
> To:  ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:47:19  -0600
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] slat bed question
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> One thing to think about when you  are planning on making a bed for 
events. What kind of mattress will you be  using? I considered both slat and rope 
when I was having our bed made and  decided to have the design modified to 
accept a plywood platform which is  supported by three 2 x 4 'slats, that go 
crosswise across our full-sized bed.  I knew that we would be using an air 
mattress. I was concerned that if a  smaller slat broke, we would have a 
catastrophic failure of our air mattress.  I knew that I didn't want ropes for 
a whole slew of reasons including not  wanting to hassle with threading the 
ropes when setting up the tent at an  event after dark when my patience is 
already short.
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> The plywood platform is cut into two pieces crosswise which  facilitates 
transport. Those two pieces of plywood go into the bed of the  truck as the 
first things we pack. In between them, we sandwich two pieces of  foil 
backed foam insulating board, cut the same size, which we place between  the 
plywood and our mattress. I put the air mattresses in double mattress  pads, one 
on each side, to further protect against splinters. We have been  using 
this system for four years now and find it to be wonderfully warm. The  air 
mattress on just the plywood was quite chilly. We have been camping at  events 
where the nighttime temperatures were well below freezing and have been  
toasty warm using a wool blanket, an old quilt, and a piece of fake fur which  
we use as a perioid touch. The bed is a classic 'viking' style that knocks  
completely into four 4 x 4 bedposts and 2 x 6 side and head rails. Round  
dowels hold it securely together.
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> I showed  the plans for a rope bed 
http://www.greydragon.org/furniture/beds/ropebed.html  to my neighbor who does some woodwork. He took it on as a 
challenge and had  the bed completed in three days. He didn't sleep much 
because he was so eager  to see if he could get it done. He had never seen 
anything like it before. We  have learned a few things from it...don't fit the 
pieces too snugly. The  mortises and tenons were too snug to start with and we 
had to have one piece  recut as the through mortise broke out
> one one of the head pieces. Use  the dowels(pins) to make things snug, 
the mortises and tenons need room to  expand/contract with temperature and 
humidity.
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> I also had him make it higher so that we could get the largest of our  
big rubbermaid tubs underneath it. Helps keep things a lot tidier in the  tent.
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> Good luck with your bed!
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> Well-behaved women Seldom make history -  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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> > Date: Tue, 9  Feb 2010 13:05:14 -0800
> > From: randelleesmith at yahoo.com
>  > To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> > Subject: [Ansteorra] slat  bed question
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> > Greetings,
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> > I was looking at making a slat bed aqnd was wondering if anyone  know 
of a pattern online, or at least the size of the side and foot boards.  I'm 
not sure if they should be 1x8 or 2x6 . Any information would be  wonderful.
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> > Thank you 
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> > Randel
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