Risers for beds in ERC doubles?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>Some dorms I've seen the kids can raise the beds up and move the drawer unit underneath to make more space. Is that doable in an ERC double?</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure we all have the same bed frames in all the colleges, so yes :O</p>

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<p>Yes it is! My suitemate did it to her bed (in ERC double).</p>

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<p>I lnow we are not supposed to loft the beds that are not already lofted but how high can we make them before anyone objects? I’ve seen at other college dorms, some people put cinderblocks or rackraisers under them to make them quite high. Would we get in trouble for that? I have a 33" tall fridge I’d really like to put underneath and being very tall myself, a bed that high wouldn’t be that hard to get into.</p>

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<p>Easier to ask forgiveness than permission. I say give it a shot until you’re told not to.</p>

<p>Personally, I’d use these black plastic crates with lids that I have. They’re about 3’ wide, 2’ deep and 1.5’ tall. I used them when I was in the USAF dorms. I’d stack them 5 wide and 3 high. I felt like a high jumper getting into bed. :)</p>

<p>Here they are:
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<p>They were like $20 at Walmart. It’s a nice way to store a lot of stuff in a way that provides some deterrence against theft.</p>

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<p>Cool, but I’m not sure the engineer in me can get a good night’s rest on a stack of slippery looking cases. Cinderblocks have some texture to them to keep them from slipping out from under the bed legs. The wonderful force of friction at work.</p>

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<p>^hahahaha agreed</p>

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<p>The cases have indents in them to keep them locked together. I suppose your bed could slip off the top, but you should be in restraints if you move enough when you sleep to make that happen. There’s plenty of friction between the plastic cases and the polyester fabric. You could create more friction by putting one of those rubbery drawer mats between them, but that would make it difficult to slide out the cases to get your stuff. I can understand the concern about putting the legs on the cases, but I’d be more worried about the little legs collapsing the case more than them falling off. The cases are strong enough if you spread the load, but not if you put all of it through some little legs. If you had enough to stack at least two high, what about dismantling the frame to put the mattress directly on them? What is the frame like? I may give this a shot again if I decide to move into campus housing.</p>

<p>I’m not crazy about cinder blocks at all. When those things fail, they fail catastrophically. Wooden blocks when an indent for the legs would be so much safer.</p>