Bed Height

I asked that question to my agency and they weren't able to answer it. I have the IKEA Kura bed and wanted to make it a bunkbed by adding a bed frame under it. It would be about 3 inches off the ground.

Thats EXACTLY what I want to do. It seems SO practical.

When I showed the setup to the agency director he was more concerned about the space between the top of the mattress to the upper bunk. He never got back to me about the issue and I ended up buying another bed.

I like the Kura also because the top bunk isn't so high. My understanding is that it just has to be off the floor, not a certain height. There is nothing in minimum standards or the licensing investigation form that suggests anything else.

I have a low loft system. Sorry, but my nephew slept on the regular high one with space underneath to set up a desk and such, but he was all but hitting his head on the roof, so...that idea didn't sit well. Anyway, we have a low loft system. The lower bed is only about 3-4 inches off the floor. We've had it for years.... We've used it for our own family / kids and foster kids.... Nobody's ever said anything to us.

My LW would approve a trundle bed as a viable bed.. that is less than 1 inch off the floor

I (hopefully) uploaded a picture of the bunk beds we bought. We thought they were awesome, and our agency agreed. Licensing, however, did not. This was not good news since we purchased three of them for the various rooms! Luckily, we are still able to use them as long as we do not roll the bottom bunk under the other bunk. If it is rolled under, it is considered a trundle and not allowed. If we just keep it out in its own space, it is OK. Once kids are adopted, we can use the beds as intended.I'll also add that case workers think they are awesome and that I shouldn't care what licensing said. I choose not to take a chance in the room where a child actually sleeps on the bottom bunk--the bed is permanently in its own space and never rolled under the top. In the room where no one is currently using the bottom bunk, I do have it rolled under to keep the room more open and nice. I suppose I can get in trouble from licensing if they see it because the room isn't 100% ready for a foster child. I figure that I could set up a crib if I were called for a baby and can certainly set the bunk up properly if it were needed for an older child. It would only take 30 seconds, and there is plenty of room in the room for it to stay out if someone were sleeping there.

Our low loft lower bed has wheels and no one's ever said anything to us. Not our case workers, not CPS, nobody. And they're fairly obvious.... I supposed you don't HAVE to use them.... It does make moving the bed around a lot easier though....

We did go with two kuras, I laid them on top of 2x6s and added the ikea slats to make lower bunks. They assessment people said that was fine. Yay!

Cam, could you just take the wheels off the bottom then it wouldn't really be a trundle?

There's not much head room when the bed is directly under the top bunk, which is why it wheels out. As long as we have it out, they consider it a bed even with the wheels. They just won't consider it a bed if we have it wheeled under. We don't ever wheel it under in the room where the bottom bunk is used.