Bedding: query about securing the wooden slats under bedding on 'u' shaped lounge

[kevenh]

Our under mattress slats should be held in place by a press stud on the end of some material that is attached to the slats.

On our 13 year old MH, the press studs are secured to the wooden sides but the material from the slats are no longer attached to it's part of the press stud (i.e. the slats are free to move away from where they're meant to be )

What neat fix have you worked out to secure your slats in place until you need to access the under bed storage?

 

[Stealaway]

I fitted some removable slats by screwing some longish wood screw to the wood and cutting the heads off. Then I drilled the slats to sit over them.

 

[Manic]

Our hymer uses these, don’t know if yours is the same.

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[kevenh]

I fitted some removable slats by screwing some longish wood screw to the wood and cutting the heads off. Then I drilled the slats to sit over them.

OK, so to the original bedding slats going length ways you added a couple of slats going width ways to hold them all in place?

If not that, I can see a picture or two of my current slat issue being needed
tnx all for looking in

 

[kevenh]

A general pic of the slats & one showing the press stud fail...
I’d like to have a new plan to keep the slats from moving.
Hopefully someone’s been here before ??

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[grasscutter]

You could buy some new press studs on eBay and make some new straps. We have just made a curtain for the front of the van and fitted press studs. They are easy to fix and very inexpensive.

 

[Riverbankannie]

This was s what you need to renew the webbing

Amazon product ASIN B078NYNCF5And these, although I guess the bits attached to the wood are still ok.

3 Part wood to fabric 10 Press Studs with Tools Kit | J A Milton

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[teknik155]

Just go down scrap yard and get some seat belts cut it to length and melt the ends job done. I used heavy duty staple gun to fix batons to seat belts.

 

[kevenh]

OK. I asked for and got some great advice on keeping our bedding slats in place
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And then just bent some metal clothes hangers about... ?

 

[pappajohn]

Quickest method of all......
Screw a small cup hook next to the press stud and hook the strap over it using the hole left by the press stud.

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[DaveandJen]

OK. I asked for and got some great advice on keeping our bedding slats in place
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And then just bent some metal clothes hangers about... ?

Good for a short term fix but you don’t want a bodge like a load metal clothes hangers in full view when selling your van in later years so probably best to do the fix now with Annie’s webbing above. Staple guns with large staples are cheap to buy on Amazon to hold the webbing onto the underside of the wooden slats (if you don’t already have one).

 

[kevenh]

Yes, the coat hanger improv will just be a stop gap.

Riverbankannie yes we do have intact studs on the wood.
It would be the other part of the press studs on the material that we’d need to replace with the new webbing.
I’ll look again later but from the first look I didn’t see how to just do those steps.
I’ll need to see what size studs I need.
Or maybe just replace all parts of the stud... ??

 

[Riverbankannie]

Yes, the coat hanger improv will just be a stop gap.

That’s good because I think the metal coat hangers will dig into the underside of your seat base and will mark/damage it after a little while. They may even go a bit rusty and then you would never get the marks out.

 

[tonyidle]

Yes, the coat hanger improv will just be a stop gap.

Riverbankannie yes we do have intact studs on the wood.
It would be the other part of the press studs on the material that we’d need to replace with the new webbing.
I’ll look again later but from the first look I didn’t see how to just do those steps.
I’ll need to see what size studs I need.
Or maybe just replace all parts of the stud... ??

You can buy complete kits of press-studs, hole cutter, punch, and die. Like these:

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Plenty more similar on eBay. Use car seat belt strapping to replace webbing.