Yes, that is option 1 above. I think it will just fail again.

Cool. Yeah, it’s obviously not the quality we assumed. But we don’t have a casual £££ to throw at a new bed frame right now, so doing as good a repair as possible is worth it for me! Thank you.

Thanks, yes someone else mentioned the plastic coating on the MDF means wood glue wouldn’t stick unless I remove the coating. If I don’t remove the coating will construction adhesive work ok?

Thank you!

Argh. Ok thank you - very helpful.

I have one acquaintance that may be able to help.

Guess I’ll have to fight with the seller!

Sorry! I was explaining what I’ve written above - especially option 3. I don’t use Imgur at all so I obviously didn’t realise I needed to put the sound on 💀

Yeah, I was disappointed when it wasn’t wood - it wasn’t described as wood and mdf on the website - and at the time it wasn’t worth the hassle to return it.

I suppose longer term we could replace the long sides and short ends with wood that matches the actual wood feet, and stain the whole thing to match. It would just be the storage headboard that was MDF and that wouldn’t bother me.

We like the bed otherwise so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ lesson learnt

Thanks! This seems like the majority suggestion. I’ll go with this. Time to stop procrastinating buying clamps I guess!

Thanks, a few folks saying to clean it up, glue and screw new holes. I might do this to the other side as prevention also. I don’t mind buying clamps for this job, I need them anyway for a chair repair (thankfully we did not break the chair, it came that way in a set).

LOL. Gosh. I want my bed to look nice but I did laugh.

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