Kombi bed board thickness?

[Paynewright]

Hi,

I’m in the planning stage of making a timber kombi bed base - long term plans for the van could change so I need something cheap, useable and not too cumbersome to store. I’m thinking of emulating a typical wooden bed frame with bolt in legs.

For those of you that have purchased official kombi bed bases I wondered if you could measure the thickness of the ply board top?

I’m currently looking at 12mm ply as I can get it in a size which means I can have a 1 piece bed base. If this is suitable I’d be looking to sell the other half of the 3050 x 1525 sheet (10’ x 5’ - full sheet is £50)

Any help / suggestions greatly appreciated.
Ian

 

[johnmacster]

Hello @Paynewright I’ve got an Exploria Kombi bed and it’s 15mm ply, looks like birch ply.

 

[AK06FR]

I recently bought the van furniture sliding bed and its also 15mm birch ply.

 

[Paynewright]

Theme developing.

think it might be an 8x4 of something thicker and some infill pieces up the edge or a strip across the doors.
I did think about doubling up the 12mm but think it would make it too heavy.

Thanks both!

 

[Paynewright]

That said I could cut some slots in it to strip out weight.