Box Spring Dissection

We have given our 9 year old boy a new box spring and mattress.  He has jumped on his old bed so much that he squashed it in half.  Springs were popping out all over the place.  When we took out the old bed, it actually jingled with all the broken parts inside.  

I did some math:  15 minutes of bouncing per night for the last couple of years yields about 11,000 hours of bounce time.  

From the top down, the old box spring doesn't look too bad, eh?

But, of course, it was bad.  I'm not expert in box springs, but I think the top should be flat.

I cut off the fabric to see what lies beneath.  I found an array of broken springs and wire mesh.  I can also see my previous repairs to the wood stringers are mostly in tact.

Here's another view

I removed all the broken and loose hardware and set it aside.  

It easily filled a 5 gallon bucket.

With all that loose junk removed, the remainder of the box spring looks pretty bare.

I removed all the repairs I did from 6 months ago (which was simply adding some 2x4s to beef up the broken slats), so after this there wasn't much left.  

The good news?  Our boy has strong legs from all this bouncing, and is the fastest runner in 3rd grade.

Next up - dissect the mattress.