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HANGING BED. How to make a bed that hangs from a ceiling. Making a swinging bed.

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What happens here

Using a stud finder, locate the ceiling joists where the bed will hang. Mark four points corresponding to the four eye bolts on your bed frame. The video shows measuring the distance between the bed's eye bolts (e.g., 67 inches) to replicate this spacing on the ceiling. Drill pilot holes into the center of each identified ceiling joist. These pilot holes should be slightly smaller than the shank of the 3/8-inch x 4-7/8-inch lag eye screws. Screw the lag eye screws firmly into these pilot holes until they are deeply embedded and secure, leaving the eye loop exposed for rope attachment. It is crucial to anchor these into studs, not just drywall, to support the weight of the bed and occupants.

Goal: Locate ceiling joists and install lag eye screws, ensuring proper spacing for secure bed hanging.

Tools and materials

  • Impact Drill/Driver
  • Stud Finder
  • Tape Measure
  • Lag Eye Screws

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just hang it into the drywall the next step of the process is actually uh putting our lag bolts up in the ceiling now and what we got to do is find something strong enough to actually you know hold this bed and so there's going to be you know studs or ceiling joists or rafters whatever you're looking for there's going to be some wood up in here that we can actually screw that thing to and just using a simple stud finder is the way you could locate that i'm just gonna measured out how far i want the bed to hang and took some measurements so you just got to make sure you get the measurements right where you actually want to screw this thing i'm just gonna be doing a hole you know right up in here i got a hole drilled there already just cleaned it out a little bit more then i'm going to be just screwing my eye lag

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