Fitted bedroom. Bed won't fit!

Pinkypants

Does the bedroom have over head lockers? If so could you squeeze in a bit of wood between all the joins to make a slight gap.

Lots of little gaps might make up the extra inch needed?

Hintza

As PinkyPants suggests they will have fillers that you can put in. Just go in and speak to them and explain the problem and ask how you can sort it.

In the meantime double check the unit measurements so you have them to hand when you go into the shop.

No random bits of wood/mdf left over which you wondered what they were for?

cyclonebri1

Hi Dave, look now we have the info, you have had the solution.

Given your comment "no matter how wide the room it won't fit", you clearly don't get what several of us have said.

You can insert a spacer on each side of the linking unit, if it's close on the outside then simply removing a short section of skirting to each side, (commonly done), will gain you that inch.:o:o:o:o:o:ooooooops;)

Again a quick sketch that others can alter would help.

Mojisola

Davetherave101 wrote: »

Also I have fitted everything now including plinths, cornice and carpet so any adjustments wouldn't be possible.

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Hi Dave, look now we have the info, you have had the solution.

Given your comment "no matter how wide the room it won't fit", you clearly don't get what several of us have said.

You can insert a spacer on each side of the linking unit, if it's close on the outside then simply removing a short section of skirting to each side, (commonly done), will gain you that inch.:o:o:o:o:o:ooooooops;)

If everything else has been cut and fitted, it's not that simple.

Mark_Mark

Adding a spacer or filler will reduce the gap would it not?

If the outer walls remain constant anything between them and the inner units would place them nearer each other. Or have I got it the wrong way round?

cyclonebri1

Mojisola wrote: »

If everything else has been cut and fitted, it's not that simple.

But it could still be the simplest (cheapest) option.

The OP buys new cornice or the store suppies it FOC or whatever, it's the price he pays for acting before thinking, or the store does for not attending to detail

I'm sorry Dave, and I hope that isn't offensive.

An error is in place, we need a solution, but it will be at a price, although hopefully not too great.

The situation is not a disaster, it has simply taught you a lesson, and the price of that lesson.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davetherave101 wrote: »

High everyone. New to the forum. Need some advice on what to do. We bought a fitted bedroom from homebase in December. It's taken me over a month to decorate the room and fit it. Last night I finally finished and tried to put our king size divan bed in and it won't fit. We was told by the designer in homebase we could fit a 5 foot bed in but now it's in I've measured and the gap is only 4 foot 11 inches. Just wanted to know where I stand with it. I've never argued anything in a shop before but I'm quite upset about this as the fitted bedroom cost us over 2000 pounds. Do you think I could get some sort of compensation or do I just need to bite the bullet and get myself a smaller bed.

Thanks in advance

Dave

Why should you get a smaller bed? Their fault = they should rectify.


Actually, I'm a bit surprised that fitted bedrooms don't automatically cater for beds at least 5' wide these days, as 5' is such a standard width for beds to be. Why on earth would any manufacturer still be trying to sell fitted bedrooms that are only suitable for 4'6" wide beds?:cool:

Raises the question about whether you got sold "old stock"?? Maybe the "new stock" really DOES accommodate a modern width bed (ie 5'), but you got "old stock" they were trying to shift (whether by accident or design), but you got lumbered with the out-of-date sizing.

Don't accept this by being prepared to do a bodge job to make up for their inefficiency. If you do, then you are complicit in them pulling the same stunt on other customers as well.

They need a short sharp lesson.

Personally, I'd be googling around to see what proportion of double beds these days are normal width (ie 5') and what proportion are old-fashioned width (ie 4'6"). My suspicion is that not many are old-fashioned width these days.

I would then contact them IN WRITING to tell them the relevant proportions in old-fashioned width and modern standard width (eg "I've checked and only 10% of beds available as at date I bought this stuff are old-fashioned width" suitably phrased).

If they don't put things right at that point, then contact the person in charge and tell them you will be turning up at their door with the dismantled bedroom furniture and a photographer and creating bad publicity for them and DO IT if need be.

cyclonebri1

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Why should you get a smaller bed? Their fault = they should rectify.

Have you got what that designer said about it fitting a 5' bed in writing?

Actually, I'm a bit surprised that fitted bedrooms don't automatically cater for beds at least 5' wide these days, as 5' is such a standard width for beds to be. Why on earth would any manufacturer still be trying to sell fitted bedrooms that are only suitable for 4'6" wide beds?:cool:

Raises the question about whether you got sold "old stock"?? Maybe the "new stock" really DOES accommodate a modern width bed (ie 5'), but you got "old stock" they were trying to shift (whether by accident or design), but you got lumbered with the out-of-date sizing.

In think you may be in the minority there?, a standard sized bed fits most couples, or at least the "majority of the less adventurous ones?"

(:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:), ;)

Mark_Mark

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Why should you get a smaller bed? Their fault = they should rectify.

Have you got what that designer said about it fitting a 5' bed in writing?

Actually, I'm a bit surprised that fitted bedrooms don't automatically cater for beds at least 5' wide these days, as 5' is such a standard width for beds to be. Why on earth would any manufacturer still be trying to sell fitted bedrooms that are only suitable for 4'6" wide beds?:cool:

Raises the question about whether you got sold "old stock"?? Maybe the "new stock" really DOES accommodate a modern width bed (ie 5'), but you got "old stock" they were trying to shift (whether by accident or design), but you got lumbered with the out-of-date sizing.

I don't see what old or new stock has to do with it. A 600mm cupboard or 1000mm wardrobe will always be that size. It's the customers room that is the variable.

The cheaper end of the market will always be the same stock sized units. Spend a bit more and you'll see that a 400mm unit can be replaced by a 350mm one.

What I do find strange is he fitted it without seeing the plans. Yes, I know he had and idea of the end result but pros don't fit without plans. The first step should have been measure, check the plans then measure again. That way he would have got round this and that's why he's kicking himself now.


I note you say 1500 is now standard size for a mattress, yes and they work on a divan bed. How can you expect a leather bed with 300mm overhang either side to fit?
That said 1500mm is too small for a divan bed if you ever want to make it. Error by the designer but what paperwork does the customer have?

moneyistooshorttomention

Just had a quick google and there are quite a lot of old-fashioned width beds still available and being called "double beds".

However, I did find a link:

http://interiordec.about.com/od/buyingabed/a/a_bedsizes

in which it states:

"double" beds ......were the most common for two to sleep in UNTIL THE 1960's"

(having earlier on in the article said that these old-fashioned size beds are still being described as "double" and modern standard size beds are still being called "queen").

Errrrm.....has that "designer" of theirs actually looked at many people these days and seen the standard size difference between 1960s size people and 21st century size people?
I wouldn't employ someone who was so totally visually unaware myself...or maybes just sit him down in a standard British High Street for an hour or two and tell him to come back to me and describe the average size/shape of people he has spotted walking down it these days:cool: