Claire & Sheema: Construction of our Bed

We are moving right along on to the construction of our bed frame that a mattress will sit on top of. We are trying to build a frame that a vinyl tube sits between and will inflate like a jack, raising one side of the bed so the person will roll out once their alarm clock goes off and triggers a pump. 

So here are our materials: 

2 sheets of plywood, a vinyl waterbed tube, a hose, hose adapter valve pieces, 1"by 2" and 2" by 2" wood pieces as spacers for the top sheet of plywood to rest on, and hinges to connect one side of the 2 plywood sheets.

Step one was to screw our wooden 1"by 2" and 2"by 2" spacers into the bottom sheet of plywood.

Step two was to screw our wooden 1"by 2" and 2"by 2" spacers into the bottom sheet of plywood.

Step three was to cut out handles in the bottom plywood sheet so that we could more easily move our bed frame. Little did we know it was much harder to move than we imagined, even with the handles!

Below our finished bed frame! We are checking to see it everything is a set and working.

This is the air compressor we were planning on using to inflate our tube, but we realized that even once the relay is triggered and power runs to the compressor, it still needs to be programmed to the correct psi each time. Thus we are going revert back to our initial idea, which was to use a plain old air mattress pump!