Box Spring Thickness

Box springs add additional height to your bed.

Box spring thickness.

Mattresses have gotten taller than they used to be so one way to offset that is to use a low profile box spring usually 5 inches in height on the other hand if you re looking to make your bed taller a standard box spring is 9 inches in height. This is often why box springs and mattresses are matched and sold in pairs. Set your store to see local availability view similar in stock. Box springs are sized just like regular mattresses and are available in twin double queen king and california king sizes.

However box spring is somewhat misleading since most newer designs have no actual springs in their construction. Changing the thickness of the box spring and mattress require revisions to the mattress and box spring coil stiffness. Choose between split and standard box springs. Next there s the platform bed.

Through the 1800s and the early to mid 1900s mattress foundations were constructed by placing metal coils in rows on thin iron straps held in place by and connected to each other with thick wire. Best seller zinus armita 9 in. They re designed to. Standard high profile box springs are 9 inches 23 cm in height whereas low profile box springs are between 5 and 5 5 inches 13 and 14 cm.

Decide what you want your overall bed height to be. The box spring sits on top of the bed frame and then the mattress sits on top of the box spring. Twin mattresses are 39 inches by 75 inches full mattresses are 54 inches by 75 inches queen mattresses are 60 inches by 80 inches and king mattresses are 78 inches by 80 inches. Box springs have a wooden frame evenly distributed springs on the inside and a cloth covering stretched over the whole thing.

Platform beds are essentially just beds without box springs.