operation and can be folded away complete with all the bedding, for regular nightly use.
Special features include a super-strong, heavy-duty, welded steel frame for extra durability and a unique pre-tensioned, firm, woven-steel mesh base which is guaranteed never to sag and allows air to circulate freely around the mattress and bedding, even when the bed is folded away. The all-steel version has a sheet-steel base.
The 'Wiskaway' 10000 Couchette Bed is designed to be fixed to a solid wall, or to/through a steel bulkhead on a ship (which will have to take the full weight of the bed, plus occupant) at a height to suit the application. It comes complete with a detachable steel ladder, which can be folded away with the bed and a safety rail, which complies with current UK legislation.
The 'Wiskaway' 10000 Couchette Bed comes complete with flexible rubber bedding retaining strap(s). These are simply stretched across when the bed has been made in the morning and hooked onto the outside edge, to hold the mattress and all the bedding - including the pillows - in place when folded away.
To complement our ‘Wiskaway' 10000 Couchette Bed, we offer a choice of mattresses, all flame retardant to ignition source 5. Wipe-clean/'waterproof' and Source 7 mattresses are also available.
A concept already long-established in trains and ships, the 'couchette' bed is now proving equally useful on terra-firma.
The ‘Wiskaway’ 10000 Couchette Bed is particularly useful, where a second bed needs to be available for part of the time.
Typical applications include student accommodation, where the rooms are designed for single occupancy during term time (when the couchette can be folded away and locked closed), but need to be let out on a double occupancy basis, during the academic holidays and stable-boys accommodation on race courses, where there is a requirement to double up during race meetings.
The 'Wiskaway' 10000 Couchette Bed is available in a choice of single widths and lengths, as a mechanism only, for customers to incorporate into their own case goods, or complete with mattress and integral housing, in a wide choice of finishes, ranging from MFC, to plastic laminated and real veneers.
A third option, an all-steel version, is available for use on ships and oil rigs.
The 'Wiskaway' 10000 Couchette Bed is designed to take a proper interior sprung mattress and is counterbalanced, for safe, smooth and easy
