My Headboard Hits The Wall

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My headboard hits the wall.

Determine the best location for the french cleats. September 21 2013 at 4 26 am. 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. 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.

It has actually woken me up at night. 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. 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. The best solution in general is to immobilize both the bed against the floor and the headboard against the wall.

It also can create a ratcheting movement causing the bed to move in a particular direction until it does hit the wall. So you need to measure the height the width and the depth from the front of your headboard to where it hits the wall mine was something like 5 10cm deep. All i had to do was roll over in bed and the headboard would hit the wall. This means there is quite a bit of play near the top.

Stop your headboard from banging against the wall instructables share this story. 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. Dec 21 2015 stop your headboard from banging against the wall. I went to the hardware department in walmart.

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. Position the headboard against the wall between the marks you made earlier. Many of us have headboards attached or floating behind our beds. My headboard is about 4 feet tall at it s highest point and is only attached to the bedframe near the bottom.