Time to get to work

Getting started

As I said before, the plan is to patch the holes with insert nuts and replace the screws with bolts. For good measure, I coated the insert nuts with some wood glue and tapped them in with a block of wood and a rubber mallet. I turns out I only needed three insert nuts. The rest of the screws were fine.

Uh oh!

Unfortunately kids' furniture isn't kid proof—then again, what is?

The Damage

It was probably only minutes after the first bed was invented that it was jumped on. The day after my niece had spent the night, we noticed the mattress was sagging on our daughter's bed. Since they always do things together, we're sure both girls are to blame.

Since I had assembled the bed myself a year and a half earlier, I figured it was up to me to fix it. So I took the mattress off and inspected the damage. I was expecting the slats to be out of place or even broken. Sure enough, they were out of place.