Sofa Bed

Garypowell said:

Just swapped out my 4.5 year old couch for a rooms to go love seat recliner. Love it.....don't miss the old one at all.

Mine is in a slide and the base is bigger than the slide so bolted a 3/4" piece of plywood to allow it to fit.

It it sits a little high but when you recline......can't tell the difference

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Garypowell said:

I should have taken some pictures when I was working the project in June. We were just a few days away from leaving for 4 month trip so I was rushing a little.

I first tried simply placing the couch on the slide. Unfortunately it stuck out too far and anytime I sat on it the couch tipped forward.

I then ordered some feet to put on the frame of the couch. I could not seem to get them adjusted properly such that they would either dig into the carpet when moving the slide.....or there was still some tipping.

So I resorted to what I call a "diving board" approach. I used this several years ago when I installed a dishwasher and it is still holding well.

You can see in the picture the 3/4" plywood diving board with couch rolled forward. (Painted it black to make it less noticeable) there are a row of 5 3/8" by about ~3" bolts towards the outside wall. I simply drilled the holes (with Linda's help) and put washers and captive nuts such that all the excess was on the inside. Moved the slide a few times and the heads on the outside slid right past the sealing rubber.

I call it a "diving board" because of the way it hangs over the edge of the slide which is evident in the picture.

You might be able to see I removed the carpet so that there would be a good wood to wood surface once my diving board was put in place. Since all of this is hid under the coach the way it looked did not matter.

I used the feet (I had bought originally) to put on the underside of the diving board (just one pictured UNFORTUNATELY UPSIDE DOWN) so if the board did want to bend it would have a stop. The bolt side of these feet serves to keep the coach from moving forward. Don't think it ever will.....but......

As you can see the couch (found it at Rooms to Go) is a little taller than the original since it covers some of the window. It is really comfortable and both sides recline which we like. I will have to admit with the slide being slightly elevated from the floor and the diving board on top of that you do feel like your sitting a little high. But once you put your feet up all vertigo disappears. And we almost always put our feet up.

We did lose the storage area behind it due to its size too. Couch was thrown out....came apart in pieces nicely. The nice air mattress is at home being repurposed.

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