I bought this two years ago and have only just replaced it. I'm average height; went from 150-190lbs while I had it; never slept with another person on it.
I love that it enabled me to have twice the room in my tiny studio apartment last year - it was so, so worth the purchase. Not that difficult to put together, either (and I took it apart twice to move) - but you do need another person at least to assemble and get it up.
However, now that I'm in a 2br apartment and have a little more space I decided to switch to something lower. The bed seems structurally still very sound, but over the last several months (or maybe it was slowly over the years) began squeaking a lot as i tossed and turned. Coupled with some lovely anxiety I have à la the Southside horror about things collapsing, it was keeping me awake at night and I couldn't put up with it anymore. (I would have felt comfortable giving it away to someone else - it was just irrational anxiety. But note, it WILL start squeaking after a while!) I'm not even sure *what* was doing the squeaking, since I examined it very carefully both times I took it apart and everything seemed well.
As others have noted, the ladder rungs are thin and uncomfortable to step on; I initially used the pool noodle hack but they broke pretty quickly (like, a matter of days/weeks). It then became a situation of me wrapping scrap fabric around the noodles on the rungs, draping half-dirty clothing over them, etc. Total mess, in other words. That needs a solution!
Overall, good purchase; it was what I needed at the time and it bore up admirably.
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I bought this two years ago and have only just replaced it. I'm average height; went from 150-190lbs while I had it; never slept with another person on it. I love that it enabled me to have twice the room in my tiny studio apartment last year - it was so, so worth the purchase. Not that difficult to put together, either (and I took it apart twice to move) - but you do need another person at least to assemble and get it up. However, now that I'm in a 2br apartment and have a little more space I decided to switch to something lower. The bed seems structurally still very sound, but over the last several months (or maybe it was slowly over the years) began squeaking a lot as i tossed and turned. Coupled with some lovely anxiety I have à la the Southside horror about things collapsing, it was keeping me awake at night and I couldn't put up with it anymore. (I would have felt comfortable giving it away to someone else - it was just irrational anxiety. But note, it WILL start squeaking after a while!) I'm not even sure *what* was doing the squeaking, since I examined it very carefully both times I took it apart and everything seemed well. As others have noted, the ladder rungs are thin and uncomfortable to step on; I initially used the pool noodle hack but they broke pretty quickly (like, a matter of days/weeks). It then became a situation of me wrapping scrap fabric around the noodles on the rungs, draping half-dirty clothing over them, etc. Total mess, in other words. That needs a solution! Overall, good purchase; it was what I needed at the time and it bore up admirably.