Latex mattress on a platform bed with 4.5" gap between slats

[phoenix]

Hi MiriRose,

Is there any good way to deal with this? Has anyone on this forum dealt with a situation like it? Would adding slats be reasonable? We wouldn’t be able to attach them in the same way as the slats that are already there, which are supported by 4-sided slots on either side of the bed and the center beam (to assemble the bed, you line up the slats with the slots and then brought the sides of the bed together). Would it feel weird to have two different kinds of slats?

I certainly wouldn’t use a latex mattress on this as it is … especially when the slats are only 1x2 instead of 1x3 which means that the gaps should be even less to get to about 50% surface area support or better .If there was a way to add more slats that produced an even surface then that’s what I would do. It wouldn’t matter that there were two different types of slats as long as the surface was even. If this wasn’t possible … I would probably add a bunkie board that is around 2" thick and put this in between the bed and the mattress (here and here are examples) . Other alternatives would be to add a couple of inches of the firmest polyfoam you could find (50 ILD or better) and use this under the mattress or perhaps even something like this (although I would talk with them to see if it would be appropriate because it’s designed for use on a solid platform base and may not be stiff or rigid enough).

Apparently … some of these also had a ridge in the middle but I have read that the newer models don’t have this. If yours is one that has then it may be an issue for a bunkie board or even the other options I’ve mentioned because the surface wouldn’t be flat.

Phoenix