It was two for one on today's bed related mission for the friendly Miss D - she needed her existing bed frame dismantled and removed, and a new bed to be built in its place. She apologised that she only had a small selection of tools for the job, but David and I reassured her we'd come fully armed on the hand tool front (a lesson learned previous experiences...).

Fortunately the dismantling proved straightforward once we'd worked out how to get the remaining bed slats out of the frame, and quite a few Allen key turns later, we soon had it all apart and taken downstairs out of the way.

We then carried all the parts for the new bed up the three flights of stairs, and got to work studying the not absolutely crystal clear instructions and sorting out a very large bag of bolts - but once we got going, it all seemed to fit together as instructed and it definitely helped having two of us on the task as more than once it needed one of us to hold the frame to be held in place whilst the other did the necessary Allen keying from below.

After a quick test drive to check the lifting mechanism worked fine, we unwrapped the new mattress and placed it on top, did another test to confirm it all fitted neatly together as instructed, and we were done. Miss D came upstairs to check our handiwork and declared herself delighted with our efforts. We took the old mattress down to her bin store, and left her to enjoy her new (and much more comfortable) bed.