COUCH PULLED OUT FROM WALL
Looking for some suggestions. Our folding couch / bed that that goes up against the wall, the bracket has pulled out from the wall. I tried running a little bigger screw in it but pulled out again. ...
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Goldneye1 wrote:fitznj wrote:This seems to be exa1xctly what is happening. The legs are not supporting the couch/bed so all the weight is on the bracket thats attached to the wall. What did you use to extend the bracket down to the floor? I'm afraid that the wood is split and I can not get a screw back in the same hole.
I had the same thing happen; Assuming the bed bracket has been screwed in to the
wall, then you may want to look at the load on the brackets; You may find that
when you sit on the couch there is a load on the bracket trying to pull the
screws out of the wall;
Hard to explain, but I extended the brackets down to the floor, so all the load
would be vertical and not horizontal; I used square tubing from Home Depot. I
also used larger/longer lag bolts (measure first so you don't go all the way
through) - so far it's held up.
Hope this helps
use a 1x6 piece of pine, paint it white and attach to the studs in new holes, wood will cover the old ones. Then attach the couch to the new header. Couch will be out 1" farther but that shouldn't pose a problem. If you then extend some vertical 1x1 material vertically down to the floor you can transfer some of that load vertically instead of relying only on the screws in the wall.
