Do I need a Box Spring? - Bunkie Board vs Box Spring

so you've picked a mattress and you've picked a bed frame and now you've got this and I put my mattress on it just like this no stop don't do it I'm gonna tell you what you need to do [Music] so I'm sure by now you've thought of a box break and you're not wrong but the thought is kind of incomplete what is a box spring well up until the 80s and the first half of the 90s almost every mattress that was made was primarily an inner spring mattress so in addition to the springs in the mattress it also relied on the springs that were in the box spring to help with support and pressure relief in fact that's where it got its name a box spring was a box filled with Springs but almost every mattress manufactured in the last 10 years doesn't need a box filled with springs but what makes it confusing is that a lot of manufacturers still call them box springs even though there's no springs them in them anymore it's really just a foundation something to raise the height and provide support for the mattress one option is to get some plywood like I did here and screw it onto something sturdy like two by fours depending on how handy you are that may or may not be a good option but it's one of those things that always takes longer than you'd expect to cut it to size screw it to the right pieces and get it in place as you can see it's still not a perfect fit when I tried it if you have one of these you don't need a box spring or a boogie board this is a platform bed and it has all of the slats built in so you can put the mattress right on top if you're interested in this particular model I'll put a link in the description box a lot of bed frames are like this three or four crossbars and that's all there is especially older wooden ones or sleigh beds like I have and no you can't put your mattress directly on this if you did it would sag between the crossbars and frankly it's probably going to void the warranty anyway which needs something closer together so I'm going to give you a couple solutions to that problem so here's an example of a foundation this is the zenus four inch by fold box spring and I have it unzipped so you can see that even though it's called a box spring there's no Springs involved it's really just a foundation to raise the height of the mattress and other than that it's just got a bunch of sturdy crossbars to support the mattress it's called bifold because you can fold it in half when you're storing it or move it around I'm showing you this low angle so that you can see this particular foundation just barely peeks out over the edge of our particular bed frame of course you'll need to measure for yours I did a review of this particular foundation a while back you can click the card in the top right corner for more details on that or check out the description box this is the zenus Gulzar bunkie Board and queen size and as you can see it sits inside the existing bed frame but adds more slats to it so that there's never more than about four inches between any given slats you'll see a couple of the bars have a white tape on them that's just an optional slip resistant tape that you can use if you want to to prevent your mattress from moving around it's a great solution if you need extra support but you don't want to raise the height of your mattress much this bulky board was quick and easy to put together if you want more details on this particular one check the card in the top right hand corner the only practical difference between a bunkie board and a box spring is the height a box spring called a foundation nowadays will raise the mattress height off of the bed frame depending on what size you get your desired amount of inches some are low-profile some are little higher profile and they provide enough crossbars to provide adequate support a bunkie board provides the same function but without raising the height more than the nominal amount that it has inherently so it still has the correct amount of crossbars to prevent sagging and provide adequate or in our case my wife and I are currently sleeping on a 14 inch thick dream cloud mattress and since the thicker mattress we didn't want to raise the height very much right now it's sitting on that bunkie board that I showed you so it's been raised hardly at all I think it's the perfect height I have my feet on the ground and it's just right what do you think to see more tips on setting up your mattress and bed frame click the round icon with my face so that you can subscribe to this channel take a look at the description box I'll list three different box springs and three different bunkie boards that you can take a look at click right over here for my earlier review and click right down here for my review of the ghouls our bunkie board dug out

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Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 04 2019