How to stop a bed from sliding?

cyclonebri1

thriftymanc wrote: »

Those castor cups sound ideal - I've never heard of them before. I'll try to find some in the right size and give those a go!

They won't work on a wooden floor I'm afraid, even sat up in bed doing nothing more exciting than being leant up again the headboard reading, will allow the bed to slide away from the wall.

You have my earlier suggestion, the other very cheap option is to buy a single cork tile. That will be enough material to cut 4 or 6 pads for the feet. Glued on and I doubt it will move even when the earth does.:o

The problem you have is that the area in contact with the floor is too small or of too low a frictional value for the grip needed.
If all the above that I and others have suggested then turn the bed over and screw:eek: ok, fix a piece of wood of a suitable size to the base of each foot. This will increase the contact area and you can put rubber cork or whatever under that.

maninthestreet

Just need something big enough on the floor between the legs and the wall? This will wedge between the legs and the skirting board, preventing any furhter movement of the bed towards the wall??

Edwardia

Our new bed arrived Wednesday and had the skid problem on a wooden floor. We bought castor cups from Wilkinson, problem solved.

We had the creaky banging wobbly headboard on a previous bed in previous house. I bought a double sided draught excluder designed for the bottom of a door. Wrapped it around the bottom bar on the headboard out of sight and it acted like a buffer between headboard and wall. No noise, no scratches I would also suggest that grey pipelagging flexible sleeving would work.

cyclonebri1

maninthestreet wrote: »

Just need something big enough on the floor between the legs and the wall? This will wedge between the legs and the skirting board, preventing any furhter movement of the bed towards the wall??

Strange how we all have different movement issue, mine always moves away from rather up to the wall, but in my case the headboard is not attached to the bed.;)