I must have a dud stompa. Ours is 18 months old, has a normal size 8yo sleeping in it. It's 18 months old and we are putting it on freecycle as we have had to replace 2 steps on it when they snapped and now the actual ladder is coming away from the main bed. If no one on freecycle wants to try to fix it it will be going in the skip. Huge waste of money, I've had better quality from Argos for less than half the cost.