Broken Wooden Slat on bed

[NewModelArmy]

Hi

Anyone got any idea where you can buy wooden slats for bends?

I knelt on one and it broke?

Thanks in advance

Ian

[EricP]

Go to Wickes or practically anywhere. Find a length of wood as near as you can. Pay £1.50. Take it home and fit it.

[Palindrome]

You may want to move a good one from elsewhere on the bed, somewhere that has a less of a chance of being knelt on in future, and replace that one.

It is often possible to repair the original. Use a good glue like Cascamite/Resinmite to bond the end together, then glue on hardwood strips as a splint.

Otherwise, take the broken slat to a timber merchant and they should be able to identify the timber and supply you with a piece of stock timber of the same type to use as a replacement.

-- Sue

[John T]

The fact that it is broken means it has been "Overloaded", whatever that means! It probably means you wont get away with a bit of B&Q softwood, or any other sort offered through the normal DIY circle. If you are going to make a new one, you need a tough pringy wood like ash, that isnt too dry.

Woodfit (in Chorley i think, but mail order), keep laminated beech bed slats, these are supposed to be very good, but i havent used them myself.

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John

[The Medway Handyman]

Average el cheapo pine bed uses plywood if you are lucky, but mainly cheap pine.