Had the bed for a long time now, always held up fine. Then my wife bought a new robot vacuum. Apparently its sensitivity sucks because the bastard took out 3 of four legs running down the middle of our bed.

The legs were initially held in place by a single bolt into a metal receptacle bored into thetop of the leg. Seems like the wood splintered once the vacuum kept hitting them full force.

I decided to brace them all with extra L-bend pieces from IKEA furniture (finally a use for the junk drawer!). Biggest problem was actually installing them and attaching the reinforced arms to the bottom of the bed. My kiddo suggested using a car jack to lift and hold the big. It was just crazy enough to work.

Half an hour on my back and doing my best worm impressions in and out from under the bed and done. The jack was perfect and didn't damage the bed (or let it fall and crush me). All in all about an hour and a half's work.

If that vacuum takes them out again I'm entering it into Battle Bots.