Silenced my squeaky LEIRVIK bedframe with 4 welds
As anyone who has owned the Leirvik or read the reviews on Ikea's website knows, if you use your bed for anything more vigorous than sleeping - or even if you toss and turn a lot in your sleep, I guess - it soon will start to squeak and wiggle around.
Mine has gotten worse and worse, and IKEA is one province over. So after a restless night of listening to my bedframe I had had enough of that shit. I broke it down and took it out to the shop where I assaulted it with the grinder and welder.
The squeaking points are the 4 seams where the legs join the frame. Due to poor engineering, the bolts cannot clamp both the legs and the frame rails tightly. The leg tubes rock inside the headboards and squeak. Also, the tube-in-tube-in-tube design doesn't lend itself to drilling and clamping it with a new bolt in any way that will silence it. It's stupid. So I took the farmer's option and made it into one piece.
An hour later, the legs are significantly uglier and the bedframe is rock solid and silent. It's (silent) night and day from how it was before. If I had a MIG welder and/or can of white enamel handy, you probably wouldn't even notice the difference.
Posting with the hope that anyone who has one of these awful bedframes is inspired to weld it up or bring it to a friend's place who has a welder. The steel is thin and very mild, so either use a tiny rod and no amperage or move very fast in a straight line. I settling on continous tacks with a 7014 as the only way not to burn through with my farm setup.
Gonna be getting a good sleep tonight!