My Headboard Hits The Wall

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My headboard hits the wall.

I went to the hardware department in walmart. My headboard is about 4 feet tall at it s highest point and is only attached to the bedframe near the bottom. The headboard itself is beautiful however either from lack of reading or lack of understand or even a description change i never knew that this headboard needed to be mounted to the wall. It also can create a ratcheting movement causing the bed to move in a particular direction until it does hit the wall.

Get our newsletter subscribe. September 21 2013 at 4 26 am. All i had to do was roll over in bed and the headboard would hit the wall. Stop your headboard from banging against the wall instructables share this story.

If both of these ways to attach a headboard sounds like too much work you actually don t have to attach it to anything you can add some type of cushioning to the wall side and the back of the headboard you can use something as simple as a few furniture felt pads push the frame tight up against the headboard and the bed usually will hold. He found ones with screws so he could drill them in to the back of the bed and essentially extend the reach of the top of the headboard so for all intents and purposes it was flush with the wall. Even so a small 1 2 1 of movement or play in the bed translates to a 2 4 movement at the top of the headboard. Wall cleat to hang and secure headboard to the wall.

Position the headboard against the wall between the marks you made earlier. It has actually woken me up at night. The construction of the bed attachment method of the headboard and the trim molding thickness can all contribute to a headboard that bangs against the wall during all kinds of a. Use at least two cleats evenly spaced along the back of the headboard.

This means there is quite a bit of play near the top. Double check the fabric width when you buy 2 metres of fabric like i did it will generally come in one long piece but double check that if you are purchasing online. Many of us have headboards attached or floating behind our beds. The way that my room is designed it is not possible for me to hang this on the wall so i am going to have to return it and exchange it for something new.