The bed behind the wardrobe is a camp bed, or it is not. Pull it far enough to see a folding frame, a fabric or a thin pad, and the legs. If the joints close by hand, close them and measure the folded bed. If they do not close, write “will not fold” and measure it open. A booking that says “the bed” will be read as a frame, a headboard, and a mattress. This note is one camp bed.
A bunk, a loft bed, and a wooden or metal frame with rails and a headboard are not this bed. Those pieces stay on the guide to getting rid of a bed frame. A mattress that stands on its own stays on the mattress guide. A whole bedroom of wardrobes, drawers, and a bed stays on the bedroom furniture plan. Come back here when the object is one camp bed and the open question is the fold and the gap it sits in.
Fold it only where it already folds
Stand the bed where you can see the frame, or lay it so the legs are not in a walkway. Name three parts, even if they are still joined: the fabric or the sleeping surface, the frame or the tubes, and the legs. A photo of the fabric alone is a photo of cloth. The frame is what makes it a camp bed, and the legs are what make it stand.
Look at the joints before you lean on the bed. A hinge that already folds, and that you can close with your hands, can close. A catch you can press with a finger can release. Close the bed the way it already moves. If a leg locks open and the lock does not release by hand, stop. Write “leg locked open”. Do not hit the joint with a hammer. Do not saw a tube to make the bed shorter. Do not cut the fabric to get it off the frame.
If the bed folds, fold it and then look at the result. Some beds fold in half. Some fold flatter. Measure the length, the width, and the thickness after the fold you actually made. A fold you only imagined is not a measurement. If the bed springs back open when you let go, it is not folded. Write “will not stay folded” and measure it in the position it returns to.
If the bed will not fold, leave it open. Measure the length and the width as it stands, and the height of the sleeping surface. Say which dimension is the long one. Do not force a seized hinge because a doorway looks narrow. The measurement is the report. A bent tube is not a step on this page.
A thin pad that lifts off the frame lifts off. If it is tied on with tapes you can undo by hand, undo them and set the pad beside the frame. Say “pad off”. If the pad is stitched to the frame, or the tapes will not undo, leave it and write “pad still on”. Do not cut the stitches. A pad you are keeping moves out of the photograph of the pieces that leave. A pad that is leaving can sit with the frame, named as the pad.
That pad is not a household mattress. A thick mattress with its own ticking, leaning in the same gap or used on the camp bed, is a second object. It follows the mattress guide: size, condition, and its own route. Do not roll a full mattress into the camp-bed line to save a sentence. If both are leaving, the message has two lines. If only the camp bed is leaving, move the mattress out of the frame of the photo, or the photo will be read as one bed.
A bag, a pillow, or a sheet left on the fabric comes off. If you are keeping them, they leave the photograph. If a pillow is leaving, it is not the bed. Name it or take it out of the shot. Look under the fabric for a phone, a key, or a small bag. A camp bed stored for a long time collects those objects. Empty them before you call the bed ready.
Wheels or plastic feet change the carry. If a foot unscrews by hand and you are sending the bed, bag the feet and write “feet, separate” or leave them on and say “feet still on”. If a foot is missing, write “foot missing”. Do not book a bed that stands level if it does not.
An air bed with no frame is not this camp bed. If a valve you can open by hand lets the air out, let it out, fold the vinyl, and write “air bed, no frame”. Do not call that vinyl a camp bed. If the valve will not open, write “valve shut” and do not puncture the bed. This page does not open an air-bed guide. The object stays a separate line if it is leaving, and it stays off this fold.
The gap behind the wardrobe
The bed is stored behind a wardrobe. That is a location, not a reason to take the wardrobe apart. Open the wardrobe doors only far enough to see whether the bed is behind the carcass or inside it. A bed inside a wardrobe, on the floor of the cupboard, is still this bed, but the sentence changes: “inside the wardrobe”, not “behind it”. Photograph the opening you can actually use.
If the bed is behind the wardrobe, look at the gap. The useful width is the space between the wardrobe and the wall, or between the wardrobe and the next piece, with the bed still in it. If you can slide the bed out without moving the wardrobe, slide it, and only then fold it if it folds. Do not drag the bed out by the fabric. Hold the frame. If the bed catches, stop and look. A tube against a skirting is a stop. Write what stopped it.
If you cannot bring the bed out without moving the wardrobe, do not unscrew the wardrobe on this page. Write “wardrobe in the way” and “bed still in the gap”. Measure what you can see. The wardrobe, if it is also leaving, is its own job on the wardrobe removal guide. That page decides whether the wardrobe travels whole or in panels. This page does not borrow those steps to free a camp bed. If the wardrobe is staying, it stays. The bed leaves only when there is a way out you have already opened, or you have said the bed is still stuck.
A door on the wardrobe that will not close because the bed is in the way is not a fault you repair here. Move the bed if you can. If you cannot, say the door stays open and why. Do not force the door onto the frame of the bed.
Walk to the doorway the folded or open bed has to pass. Open that door as far as it opens. The clear height and the clear width are the gap you can see, not the size of the door while it is shut. A rug in the opening is part of the width until you move the rug. Move what you are keeping, then measure if the gap changed.
Write the bed’s travelling length and width, and the doorway’s clear height and clear width. Name the door. If the bed is still open because it would not fold, the length is the open length. If a second doorway is tighter, measure that one and name it. A bed that leaves the bedroom and stops at the front door has not left.
The general question of whether furniture should come apart is the dismantling guide. That page is a wardrobe, a bed frame, a table. A hinge on a camp bed that already folds is not that job. Do not take the tubes apart because a frame guide talks about rails and bolts. If the camp bed has no hinge and is a fixed cot with sides, you are not on this page. Stop. A cot is not a camp bed, and this page will not turn one into the other.
What is not this bed
A sofa bed is a sofa with a bed inside it. Folding that mechanism and measuring the closed sofa is the sofa-bed guide. Do not describe a sofa bed as a camp bed because both fold. If the object has a back, arms, and cushions, write “sofa bed” and leave this note.
A bunk has an upper sleeping place, a ladder or a rail, and more than one frame. It stays on the bed-frame guide. Do not drop the upper bunk and call the lower one a camp bed. Do not remove a ladder under these steps.
A full bed frame stays on that same guide: rails, slats, a headboard, a storage base. If the object behind the wardrobe is one of those, you have the wrong page. Say “bed frame” and follow that guide. Do not saw a headboard because you started on a camp-bed note.
A whole room is the bedroom furniture plan. The camp bed is one line on that list when the room is leaving. The wardrobe is another line. The mattress is another. Come back to this page for the fold and the gap. Do not paste the camp bed into “bedroom” and hope the fold is obvious.
A second camp bed is a second fold and a second measurement. Name them: “bed behind the wardrobe” and “bed in the store”. Do not hide the second inside the word “beds”.
A bed you are moving to another room to keep using is not a collection. This note is for the camp bed that is leaving the property. If someone is taking it to a new address to sleep on, say that to the person who is moving it. Do not use a disposal booking as a way to relocate a bed you still want.
If a tenancy list or a written note says the bed stays with the property, leave it off the booking. A fold and a dusty cover are not permission. The person who may release it writes that release. This page does not interpret a contract.
The bed is not the wardrobe, even when you found it there. Point at the wardrobe only to show that it is staying, or to show that it has its own line. Do not book “wardrobe and bed” as one object.
Photos of the bed and the gap
The picture is a wooden wardrobe with padded corners beside a bedroom doorway. It does not show a camp bed, a folding frame, a fabric surface, or a gap behind the wardrobe. Use it only as a reminder that the wardrobe is a different object from the bed stored behind it. Your own photos still have to show the bed and the gap.
Send these views.
- The bed where it sits, before you move it, so the gap behind or inside the wardrobe is visible.
- The bed after you have brought it out, or the same gap with the words “wardrobe in the way” if you could not.
- The bed folded, or the bed open with “will not fold” or “leg locked open”.
- The pad off the frame, or the pad still on, so that choice is visible.
- The doorway the bed has to pass, open as far as it goes, with things you are keeping moved aside.
- Any separate mattress, either in its own photo for the mattress line or moved out of this photo if it is staying.
Add the room name and the floor. Add a lift or loading note you have already been given. If you have no lift note, write “no lift instruction yet”. Add the length and width you measured, and the clear opening of the door that limits the bed. Add whether the wardrobe is staying or leaving on its own line.
If you have no tape, write “not measured”. Do not invent the numbers. A bed you have not measured is not ready to describe as unable to pass, and it is not ready to describe as able to pass. This page does not keep a standard door size.
Take the photos in the light the room already has. If that light does not work, say so. A photo of a closed wardrobe door does not show the bed.
One line in the booking
You can take the camp bed with the furniture once the fold is either done or honestly marked as not done, the pad is on or off and named, and the wardrobe is not pretending to be part of the bed. That page is the furniture leaving the room. It is not a request to saw a tube, and it is not a bunk taken down.
Say, in one message:
- one camp bed, and the room
- behind the wardrobe, inside the wardrobe, or already out
- folded, will not fold, will not stay folded, or a leg locked open
- pad off, or pad still on
- the length and width as it will travel, and the clear height and width of the doorway that limits it, naming that door
- wardrobe staying, or wardrobe leaving as its own line
- a separate mattress, named on the mattress line, or no separate mattress
- anything that is not this bed: a sofa bed, a bunk, a cot, an air bed with no frame
Do not write “the bed” as the only words. Do not write a fold you did not make. Do not ask for the frame to be cut because the figure is larger than the gap. The figure is the report.
If the bed is still behind the wardrobe and you have not tried to see the joints, you are early. Look. If the joints will not move, the open measurement is the honest one. Send that.
The bed-frame page remains rails, a headboard, and a bunk. The mattress page remains a mattress. The bedroom page remains the room. The wardrobe page remains the wardrobe. This page remains one camp bed that does not leave undescribed in a gap.
The morning the bed leaves
Look at the fold again. If someone opened the bed overnight, fold it the same way, or change the note to the open measurement and photograph it again. Check the pad is still where you said it was. Check a bag you put back on the fabric is off again.
Open the door to the gap you measured. A box pushed into the opening changes the width. Move it before you treat the old figure as current. If the wardrobe was pulled back over the bed, you do not have the same bed you photographed. Bring it out again, or write that it is back in the gap.
Point at the frame, the fabric, and the legs as the camp bed. Point at the wardrobe only as the wardrobe. Point at a mattress only if it has its own line. Leave a bunk, a sofa bed, and a cot out of the gesture.
Do not stand the open bed in the corridor the night before to save the room. The corridor is not the gap you photographed, and a bed that springs open does not belong on a shared landing. If the only place it can wait is the room it is already in, leave it there, folded if it stays folded, with the wardrobe still clear of it.
When it has gone, look at the gap. A pad you meant to include is still a pad. A foot you unscrewed is still a foot if it is on the floor. The useful record is the sentence from the first look: one camp bed, folded or honestly not folded, pad accounted for, wardrobe left as a wardrobe, and the doorway’s clear opening written beside the bed’s own length.
