How to make a box spring?

The bed is among the most important furniture in a house because according to the study conducted, a person spends a third of his life to sleep, for the most part, in a bed.

Since it is so important in our life, why not make yourself, for your measurements and according to your tastes your spring?

For the arms and the slightest dock, in addition to the pleasure provided by this activity, to create and customize the spring of your box, it gives the satisfaction of having realized the bed of your dreams, at a lower cost.

In fact, you can, from some recycled pallets, create an original, economic and ecological spring.

In addition to enjoying custom furniture, the use of recycled pallets has two great advantages. Their use saves money, but above all to make your contribution to reducing pollution.

What is a box of box?

A box of box constitutes the flat and rigid surface that contains the horizontal mattress. It is a system designed specifically to support the mattress. We can say it It is the spring of the box that is the guarantor of the quality of our sleep since its role is to improve and correct the action of the mattress on the back.

Zoom on wooden pallets

Usually, pallets are used for the transport of construction materials or heavy goods. Thus designed, they have incredible solidity and can resist a weight that other recycled materials may not do it.

According to their nature and use, there are two types of pallets:

• Usa pallets not marked

This type of palette is not generally not treated and is made of raw wood. Depending on the goods to be transported, there are the different qualities and different dimensions of the pallets, but the strongest are those intended for the transport of building materials.

The disposable pallets are characterized by their ease of disassembly. In addition, they are easily lent to produce interior furniture.

They are stronger, heavier and therefore more difficult to dismantle. This type of palette is usually used to ensure the transport of goods abroad and is characterized by the marking «EUR Epal». It has the advantage of being treated and painted.

Generally, a palette, of which type of, is made up of the overlap of the following elements:

• 3 soles resting on the ground;
• 9 nuts including 3 per soles;
• Crossing that are perpendicular to the soles, positioned on the dice;
• And at the top, more or less spaced axes.

Sometimes a palette is made up only of transversal positioned without dice on the thickness of the table.

It is good to know that you can obtain manipulation pallets not recorded near supermarkets, in front of some warehouses or construction sites. You can also recover it in commercial or industrial areas. Once considered useless, some professionals launch these pallets and leave them available to the public.

Recovery pallets are a privileged material for FAI -Da -te and recycling enthusiasts. In fact, they can be adapted to all styles. And even if the rustic is the only style prepared for the pallets, with a good finish and a good choice of color of the paint, A spring box in recovery pallets can very well merge into a modern style setting.

How to make a box spring?

The production of a pallet base is performed in different stages:

• Step 1: Create a spring sketch

The first step to take a box of box is to draw a sketch of the bed. This allows you to determine the number of pallets needed to create a spring. All the size, length and width of the box of the box must appear in this sketch. It is according to the size of the available pallets that the number of pallets needed can be determined, as well as any cut to do.

In case you want to have a larger spring of the mattress, it is necessary to add each side of the mattress at least ten centimeters.

This article is a guide to create a spring of 200 x 160 centimeters with 120 x 80 centimeters pallets. So we need a box of box of this dimension, 5 recycled pallets. But having the right measures, it is up to everyone to take the measures of the spring it wants to obtain.

• Step 2: Cut the pallets

On each palette to be cut, the cutting line must be marked. You can cut with a puzzle.

If the central crossbar is not located at the end of the cutting cards, it must be detached and the dice of the axes and soles.

The dismantling operation can be performed by sliding a foot from Daina or a brick chisel between two elements. To detach each element, it is necessary to touch slightly with a hammer.

The dismantling of a palette must be carried out deliciously because each element is still called to be reused. It is also necessary to recover all parts of the other half of the cut palette.

• Step 3: sand and clean the pallets

To eliminate all roughness, All visible surfaces and all parts of the palette must be smooth. This activity must be carried out in two phases.

– The first polishing will be carried out using an electric sander.

– To obtain a more fluid appearance, it is necessary to finish sanding using medium -grain abrasive paper.

Once polished, the pallets must be clean. First you have to brush them vigorously with a hard horse brush. They are then cleaned with soap and water, before allowing them to dry for several hours.

During polishing and cleaning, the use of protective gloves to avoid stalls is strongly recommended.

• Step 4: assemble the pallets

The beginning of the assembly of the pallets must begin with the formation of the width of the box of the box. For this, the pallets will be returned. To form the width, 2 entire pallets must be positioned on board. So, in order to assemble the two pallets, we will mark the position of the two plates that will guarantee the assembly with a chignole.

And finally to assemble the two complete pallets, we will start the platelets using a screwdriver. We will then repeat the operation to assemble the other two pallets cut.

To fix the two pallets together, you can use the assembly legs. You can also use parentheses.

It is possible to use terminals to keep the pallets between them during assembly. To fix the axes together, the nails with flat heads will be enough.

In the end, we then fixed two complete pallets and two cut pallets. It remains only for us to fix the 2 parts of the box one spring the other with 4 fixing plates. You can also assemble the pallets with hinges.

To be sure you have created a robust base capable of supporting our weight, It will be necessary to provide 4 hinges.

• Step 5: paint the base of the box of the box

When the spring of the box is mounted, you can paint it. While white is fine with all styles, so it would be the ideal color to use.

Before taking this operation, it is It is necessary to apply a background or a primary of hanging in advance. This operation will save painting. In fact, the primary toll or the background avoids the too high absorption of the paint by the wood.

If this passage is forgotten or deliberately omitted, it takes up to three or four layers of paint for a finish without traces.

Several advantages can be obtained with the use of recovery pallets.

They can be changed without too much effort. For example, it is possible to reduce the pallets from a two -point box to reduce it to a spring in one place. We can therefore have a little more space. You can also use the lower parts of the pallets to store books and notebooks.

Do you create a spring with which palette?

We have already said that we can find pallets in certain places. It is also possible to buy recovery or new pallets from specialists.

Be careful, you must be very vigilant in the choice of the palette you want to use. In fact, depending on the treatment it has undergone, it can be highly toxic. This is the case with a «MB» stamped palette. It is treated with «Metil bromide» which is a dangerous poison.

Keep in mind also that a palette with the «HT» stamp is treated with «high temperature». Sometimes a palette has the «db» mention. All these mentions indicate safe use.

The «Epal» stamp or «logo of the European Pallet Association» also means risk -free use.

Ideas to customize the bed in pallets

Once the production of the recovery pallets has been made, it is possible to customize it according to its tastes.

You can paint it with wood or bomb. We can also leave the surface like this. Therefore, we get a raw and worn aspect, very popular with the industrial style.

It can also be improved with a headboard in axes of recovery. To do this, we can use the leftovers of the palettes cut during the production of the bed. To recover the axes, just remove the nails from a palette. For a better effect, you don't have to forget to smooth them. They can be positioned, close to each other, at random heights.

As for lighting, A fixed «LED» ribbon around the bed will have a very nice effectJust like a bright garland that is authorized to run inside the pallets.

In the event that the height is not satisfactory, we can always add wooden or metal feet to our spring.

The addition of wheels to this solid bed will also move him as wishes. However, they will give an additional industrial touch.

For those who prefer larger beds, they can take four other pallets and overlap to get a second layer.

Getting a suspended bed is possible if the house has exposed beams.

Currently, the furniture, both practical and artistic, such as chairs, armchairs, sofas, tables, without forgetting the shelves and beds made with recovery pallets, are very successful especially with the most increasingly present.

This can be explained by the fact that from an ecological point of view, the furniture in the recovery palette are highly appreciated. The use of recovery materials, including the palettes, constitutes a responsible ecological act.

On the side of the money, we can say that this material is among the least expensive we can find.

It is a very good quality material that is both solid and resistantAnd we can still reuse it for other projects. In addition, it's easy to work.

From an aesthetic point of view, a pallet furniture lends itself to all styles, industrial, rustic or vintage. All interior decoration specialists are unanimous to say that for the palettes, the style prepared is a rustic style.

But with an excellent choice of paint color, they can also merge into a modern style environment. Since the goal is to integrate the bed into recovery pallets with the atmosphere of your home, you can, according to the desired style, do not color it and keep the wood raw.

A spring spring spring set is not only suitable for parents. You can take a bed for a place for the child's room.

Faced with the environmental problems of the world today, men make their best to find effective solutions. Among the solutions found and adopted, the recovery and recovery of waste, including management pallets, are in an excellent position.