Safety With Metal Kids Loft Beds

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When you're going to buy a loft bed for your child, there are a few things you need to consider before you go and get one. To start with, you need to work out the height of the loft bed you want. This is very important. As a parent, you are going to want to be able to see your child sleeping in their bed, and this means if the loft bed is too high for you to see into you're not going to be able to do that. At most it should be at around your neck, lower is ok, but it shouldn't be any higher. If you are looking at frames in the store, you need to remember that a mattress needs to go on top of it as well, so that is going to add extra height as well.

When you looking at metal frame loft beds, you should look at the metal they are made out of. While metal is usually strong, if they have used weaker metal, and not much of it, it might bend of buckle under the weight. When you are going to purchase a loft bed, they are quite expensive, so you want it to be able to last more than a year or two. You should be looking for a frame that is solid in design, this mainly means it has the usual box style frame, but also some cross bars that will help make it more solid while it's got weight on it.

Another thing you need to look at, does it have any share edges or end exposed, this is extremely important to look at, as if it does, not only is this a real health risk to your child in the way of cuts and similar injuries, but also it might show they have cut some corners in the design or manufacturing process and there might be other things wrong that you can't see just by looking at it. While your looking for sharp edges you should be looking at the finish as well, if you haven't gone for the bare metal look, you should see if you can see any cracks in the finish, or if it's pealing. Because if your in the store, and it's doing it already, what is going to happen to it in 3-6 months down the track?

One thing you can do with a metal kids loft bed, is get it without a finish, and paint it with your child. This way not only does the child gets the loft bed he wanted, but he also helped make it, which means in the long run they will take greater care of it then they would otherwise.