HELP!: 18m old DS has dismantled his cot for the 2nd time...!

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THere are spars all over the nursery and the nappy bin has been emptied. He did this in the middle of the night 2 weeks ago and it took me (not DH )45 mins to reconstruct the F*ing thing. I don't want to apply any glue because it is a cot bed and supposed to turn into the bed bit presumeably when you take off the sides and put different ones on. Should i put him in a bed ? He still seems too young and wriggles alot. Anyone have any ideas? So fed up with this!

Blimey! what a clever boy! I think if it was me, I might consider changing it to the cot bed bit. You can get really big bedguards now to put alongside, which may help him feel he's still in a cot. However, I do know this is a big step and he's very young. You get the attendant comings out of the bedroom, and as he's obviously a bit active of a nightime, you'd certainly need a stairgate either on his room or the bathroom or anywhere you felt he shouldn't have access to!

The other thing that occured to me and this might be a bit mad, but we bought a cot from the oxfam shop for a tenner - just a pine, old fashioned cot, that would have been impossible to take apart. Maybe you could invest in a cheapy (tho you'd have to pay for a cot mattress) and store the cot bed till he's a bit older.

Also, in the meantime I would empty the room of things like the nappy bin, or anything other than toys he's allowed to have. Congrats! you've reached the stage of having a child's bedroom, not a nursery!!!!!!!

weve got a cotbed too (quite a expensive one too!) but on the instruction it advised us to tighten the bolts/nuts to keep the bed together as our 13 mths old DD is very strong and she runs up and down in the cotbed, so we make sure we tighten the bits every couple of weeks

Clever boy

A travel cot instead for a little while?

Travel cot are not very good for thier developing backs, ok for a couple of days but not longer than that.

Well I have tried and failed to put the damn thing back together - It stayed together for 30 secs then fell apart again. I was so unimppressed that i called the shop to complain - I am now waiting for someone to call me back. In the mean time I haveput the side that is no longer there against the wall, but I am considering picking up the travel cot from my mums as a temporary measure. There is only so much time before bedtime and DH won't be home till after that.
I am expecting number 2 in July and don't know whether to buy abed for ds and keep cot for baby or buy a cheap cot (not cot-bed) for new baby and put ds in cotbed?
Thanks for the advice re 'emptying room' Dexter good point, we have recently put a gate on his door so he could be safe etc

Superblastofflips - Ours wasn't cheap either - but there are no obvious bolts on ours and when it was delivered it was assembled for us.

I took dd out of her cot at this age ecause she kept climbing out. We put her in a bed and just put loads of pillows on the floor and she was fine. She didnt really fallout.

I think if it can be dismantled by an 18month old it is clearly faulty. Complain.

agree with aloha. My 20 month old ds would need a screwdriver to dismantle ours!!

LOL at title of thread.

Hope you find a solution.

Brilliant. I just called Daisy and Tom back as they didn't come back to me as they said they would. The company which made the cot no longer exists - so she didn;t know what to say really. I told her it wasn't good enough and Ds could have caused himself a serious injury.. she muttered something about there being only a one year guaranttee but i argued that as it was a cot-bed it should last 4 years at least! What if anything should i expect of them? they are calling back in a while.

the words 'trading standards' often work wonders in these situations. an 18mo should not be able to dismantle it. ask for replacement or refund

Sale of Goods Act. This is Daisy and Tom's problem to sort out, not the manufacturers. The law says goods must be fit for the purpose for which they are sold - this cot clearly isn't if it can be dismantled by an 18 month old, FGS. They have to refund your money (or replace, if that is what you would rather do.). Mention Trading Standards and Sale of Goods Act and they'll back down.

Guarantee has nothing to do with it, this is about their legal obligations.