House Frame Floor Bed with a Slatted Roof in Birch Plywood

the same frame with slats across the pitch, so a sheet thrown over it becomes a den without anything sagging onto a sleeping child.

The safety numbers on this page are the ones that actually matter and they are worth reading once. Slat spacing is under 60mm, because a gap between 60 and 75mm is the size that traps a limb. A mattress must fit with under 30mm of gap all round. Anything a child sleeps above 600mm off the floor needs a guard rail and is not suitable under six years old, which is a regulation and not our opinion. And any tall piece of furniture in a child's room needs restraining to the wall, every time, which is two screws and the single highest value two minutes in the whole assembly.

Specification

• Dimensions: outside frame 20mm larger than the mattress all round, 1550mm to the ridge
• Age range: 18 months to 8 years
• Material: 18 layer Baltic birch plywood with the edge exposed and rounded to a 3mm radius, which is the detail that stops a plywood edge catching a shin
• Finish: water based lacquer or paint, certified to BS EN 71 part 3
• Load rating: 150kg on the mattress deck, tested to 200kg
• Standards: BS EN 716 parts 1 and 2 for the cot bed size, BS EN 747 for anything raised, and the finish to BS EN 71 part 3
• Edges and fixings: every exposed edge rounded to a 3mm radius, every fixing recessed and capped, and no pinch point anywhere a hand goes
• Assembly: flat packed, two people, about 90 minutes
• Weight: approximately 48.0 kilograms
• Slat spacing: 55mm, which is under the 60mm limb entrapment limit
• Mattress gap: under 25mm all round when the correct size is used
• Mattress depth: up to 160mm
• Deck height: 120mm off the floor
• Low enough that a fall is a roll rather than a drop
• Mattress not included, and ours is sized to fit exactly
• Converts with a kit, listed alongside

In the box

• The bed frame, flat packed
• Solid timber slats at 55mm spacing
• The roof frame
• Anti tip restraints where the frame needs them
• A hex key, spare caps and printed instructions
• A printed safety card with the slat, gap and height numbers

Assembly and safety

Flat packed and best done by two people. Allow about an hour and a half. Fittings are threaded steel inserts, so it comes apart properly for a house move rather than chewing out the timber. Check the fixings once after a month and then once a year, which takes two minutes and is the single most useful thing you can do for a piece of furniture a child climbs on.

How long it lasts

This one converts rather than being replaced. The conversion kit is listed alongside it and is about a fifth of the price of the piece, which is the point. We keep the conversion parts for a range for ten years from the day we stop making it, so a piece bought for a first child can be brought back up to size for a third.