Bed platform

Mako · 03-23-2022, 08:23 AM

Hello everyone. Hope you all are having a great week. Quick question for you and not sure if it's been asked before (I couldn't find it) or if this spot is the correct place for it. Anyway, here goes. I am starting my bed frame and not sure whether to put slats or just use plywood sheets. Little background: I have ordered a sleep number bed and will not be using a box spring. I am using spray foam insulation and will have a mini-split in the bedroom. this will hopefully give me less humidity in there plus the mini split can dehumidify. Is it ok to just use plywood sheets? My Class C RV had just plywood for the base and we never had any issues but I know a lot of people say that slats help the bed to breathe...Thoughts everyone? TIA!

DeMac · 03-23-2022, 09:16 AM

You may also consider adding an "Anti-condensation underlay".used on boats to help the moisture wick away from the mattress. Especially of you use plywood

Dry-Matt
Aire Flow Hypervent
are a couple of brand names.

TheHubbardBus · 03-23-2022, 09:29 AM

Even if there weren't a high likelihood for mold/mildew/moisture-retention issues with a plywood sheet, the weight savings of slats alone would be worth it to me. I see no compelling reason to choose anything else.

Oldyeller · 03-23-2022, 10:11 AM

I'm planning to go to Habitat for Humanity Restore and buy an old angle iron bed frame that I'll use to make my platform bed. I'll use slats and I'll build a platform with no wood at all and no welding. It'll be magic -- or a horrible, tragic failure.

It's nearly finished in my head, now all I have to do is make it appear on the bus.

My main concern for my plan is how to separate the cold air in the garage from the warm air in the bus. Plywood would do that and in the absence of a solid barrier to the (relatively) unheated storage area I need to come up with a vapor barrier of some kind. Like TheHubbardBus I don't want to start carrying 4x8' sheets of ply products onto my bus for a couple reasons.

Hutchy · 03-23-2022, 10:59 AM

Slats 100% no question

Kentucky Dreaming · 03-23-2022, 11:10 AM

I really like the way Musigenesis used expanded and flattened steel for his bed platform.

Check it out in his Rusty 87 Build thread.

musigenesis · 03-23-2022, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kentucky Dreaming

I really like the way Musigenesis used expanded and flattened steel for his bed platform.

Check it out in his Rusty 87 Build thread.

Link: https://www.skoolie.net/forums/f11/r...tml#post367246

Kentucky Dreaming · 03-23-2022, 11:25 AM

Hehe, Ask any e shall receive!

musigenesis · 03-23-2022, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kentucky Dreaming

Hehe, Ask any e shall receive!

Ha ha, my build thread is hopeless as far as finding anything specific in it.

Kentucky Dreaming · 03-23-2022, 11:29 AM

Takes a while to find specific items, but lots of good stuff there. Vey nice work for all here to aspire to

Mako · 03-23-2022, 12:55 PM

very nice!

Mako · 03-23-2022, 12:55 PM

We're getting too big for our britches....so many posts...not a bad thing I guess

Jolly Roger bus 223 · 03-23-2022, 04:49 PM

we actually repurposed plywood that we had picked up for cheap for the bed platform.
we drilled 1-1/4" holes through it in a pattern but kind of like swiss cheese for air circulation.

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