As the most important and common furniture part for nursery room, Cot Bed is normally the first one you may buy and assemble. However before get a real one on hands, it’s always difficult to assemble, although look not that complicated on buyer’s site and assemble parts included together with manual.
To avoid some common mistakes, here we’ve compiled these top tips from our years of experience to help you.
1) Get the instructions
Sounds obvious, but many people do ignore them. Every crib has its own particular instructions that you should follow carefully. It is important to be attentive to these instructions because a mistake in assembling a crib could actually endanger the baby’s life. Be thorough, and don’t rush.This is especially important if you’re using a second-hand cot bed. Most manuals are available online.
2) Get some help
Most cot beds are quite large and it’s far easier to plan to assemble them with two people, even though some can be done single-handedly. Most instruction manuals tell you to assemble the cot bed with it standing up, but we found assembling the cot on its side is usually much easier.
3) Use your judgement
If the cot bed looks wrong, or is difficult to use, you’ve probably assembled it wrong. If the base seems really high, you more than likely put it together upside down. If the parts should, but don’t seem to fit together, try to turn the part or switch the direction it’s facing.
4) Don’t use too much force
Never bang dowels in with a hammer as we found they can go straight through to the other side of the wood.
The bolt/nut hold the parts together and over tightening is likely to crack the wood and alter the shape of cot which can cause varies issue with your cot bed. i.e. a stiff drop side. Avoid power tools that could that over tighten bolts.
5) Cot bed adjustment tips
When adjusting the height of the base, take one of the sides off, so you can see more of the fixings and get a better grip on the components. When adjusting the height of the base, it’s often useful to loosen the sides first and then retighten them afterwards. Otherwise, the base is clamped tightly in place and it’s difficult to get to all the fixings and manoeuvre the components loose.
Post time: Apr-18-2022