Hi All,
Hope this is the correct forum section for my question.
I have to install one of these. Fixing to the wall is not an option, so it has to be fixed to the wooden floor. The floor looks to me like it is a wooden floor that has been laid over the original floor. It's a basement flat and the room is 50 cm or so above the rest of the floors, with steps going up. The exterior brickwork looks to be the same age/style as the rest of the building so I'm guessing it's not a modern extension.
There is a radiator in the room with pipes going into the floor, which makes me think there is a space under the floor as opposed to it being a concrete floor with a wood floor laid on top.
Can any of you advise me on how to best asses the floor and what fixings to use (considering the fairly heavy duty usage/operation of the heavy bed mechanism) I have 5 mm coach screws in mind, but they are only going to work if there is enough wood for them to bite into and enough space the other side of the floorboards.
There is also the added problem that the tabs that are welded to the frame, through which the floor fixings will go, are not flush with the floor. I could try bending them, but that's not ideal. What I'm most trying to achieve is a fix that has no undesired movement so as to not come loose over time.
I'm pretty certain there is no electric wiring under the floor, but I am a bit worried about radiator pipes, is pluming laid out to a convention in a similar way to wiring?
Sorry for the overly long post and thank you in advance for any advice you may have.
Hope this is the correct forum section for my question.
I have to install one of these. Fixing to the wall is not an option, so it has to be fixed to the wooden floor. The floor looks to me like it is a wooden floor that has been laid over the original floor. It's a basement flat and the room is 50 cm or so above the rest of the floors, with steps going up. The exterior brickwork looks to be the same age/style as the rest of the building so I'm guessing it's not a modern extension.
There is a radiator in the room with pipes going into the floor, which makes me think there is a space under the floor as opposed to it being a concrete floor with a wood floor laid on top.
Can any of you advise me on how to best asses the floor and what fixings to use (considering the fairly heavy duty usage/operation of the heavy bed mechanism) I have 5 mm coach screws in mind, but they are only going to work if there is enough wood for them to bite into and enough space the other side of the floorboards.
There is also the added problem that the tabs that are welded to the frame, through which the floor fixings will go, are not flush with the floor. I could try bending them, but that's not ideal. What I'm most trying to achieve is a fix that has no undesired movement so as to not come loose over time.
I'm pretty certain there is no electric wiring under the floor, but I am a bit worried about radiator pipes, is pluming laid out to a convention in a similar way to wiring?
Sorry for the overly long post and thank you in advance for any advice you may have.
