How do you change the sheets on a bed that's against the wall?

I have the opposite problem. My bed is against the LAW.

I’m just careful to not go underneath it while someone is sleeping on it, or I’ll be under a rest!

Aerk! Aerk! Ain’t I funny?

Start in the problem corner with the fitted sheets.

You have to bend that corner up. It was easy when I was younger.

I had that problem once upon a time. I used to crawl in between the mattress and the wall, standing the mattress up a little to get the fittted sheet under it. Sometimes I’d end up under the mattress. It’s not fun.

An alternative might be to do that – but only once, and then buy a pad with a removable cover so you don’t have to wrestle with the mattress every time.

I used to have a platform queen bed against the wall, and I don’t remember very well how I did it. Lol. I think that I did the wall side first. I was on the bed, on the mattress, tucked the fitted sheet over the wall side corners, and then stretched the sheet over to where I could stand next to the bed and finish tucking. The flat sheet basically the same. I had an old fashioned 10” or 12” thick mattress, not a pillow top 18 inch thing. The sheets easily fit over the mattress. Maybe the sheet were for 16” or 18” so it was easier to manipulate.

Platform beds vary regarding what the sides of the bed are like, so I can’t really know what you are dealing with. My current bed would be more difficult than my bed I had as a teenager. Plus, I was stronger as a teen.

Would a flat sheet be easier? Sometimes fitted sheets keep wanting to curl up.

I crawl across the bed with enough slack in the sheet to cover the corner, then do the opposite corner, then the one on the same side as the first at the foot of the bed, then the corner at the opposite top end.

You should only have one problem corner. Do it by first finding the correct sheet corner for that mattress corner and holding the whole fitted sheet up against you while putting the corner of the sheet on the corner of the mattress. Back off of the bed and do the other top corner, then do the bottom corners. I had bunk beds for my kids and they were up against a wall. I swore I would never again deal with such weekly BS again.

Get someone to put ten sheets on it, then just yank one off as needed.

Start with the hardest part of the bed on your hands and knees and do the rest normally.

Mount the bed on wheels so that it can be readily moved.

As others have said, start in the hardest corner.
When the sheet comes off as you crawl around , curse loudly and liberally.

Another idea is to attach Velcro tabs on both the sheets and the bed ( mattress corners) and tackle these first by climbing on the bed to attach them) the rest would be easy.

Also can do this for all the corners to keep the sheet from bunching up..but don’t place it tight as it has to have give room, so allow maybe a inch leeway each corner?

I wonder if your cleaning lady had some kind of a tool that she used to push the sheet down under the corner of the mattress without having to lift it up while she was sitting on it. Maybe a nice long paint stirrer with maybe a V shape filed in the end to catch the fitted part of the sheet corner would help.

Also if you could pull the mattress away from the wall it would be easier to fit it around those two corners. Then get off the mattress, fit the sheet on the other two corners, check to see that everything is good, and push it back into place.

The problem that makes it extra difficult is that the bed is a platform bed so the mattress has the wooden parts of the platform coming up around it on the sides. The mattress has to be picked up in order to get the sheet underneath it.

I would pull the bed out a inch or so. So you can get your hand down there. A inch isn’t going to destroy your livable space. And you don’t want your mattress right up on the wall anyways because of mold. There should be at least some circulation.

Stated in the details, “queen size platform bed”. Folks, we are talking heavy furniture here.

My platform also has the wood coming up around the mattress a little. Is there several inches leeway to shift the mattress to one side so you can get your hand in between the mattress and wood on the wall side?

Is moving the bed away from the wall out of the question? Can you position the bed on the other wall maybe? Reconfigure the room? I assume you’re fitting a dresser in there also. Do you have a walk in closet that you can put the dresser in the closet?

I have a wide closet on the other wall so the bed couldn’t go on that side of the room.

I have the TV in the room and with the shape of the room, the present location is pretty much the only and best place.

Did your cleaning lady have a helper? Two people would definitely help in sheet changing!

You have a cleaning lady @jca2?

Look into a good set of caster wheels. It’s easier than you think.

@Dutchess_III She said she used to have a cleaning lady, so I’m assuming she doesn’t anymore.

Yes, I used to have one.

I used to NOT have a cleaning lady.

But that doesn’t negate the fact that I STILL don’t.

Just because one used to have a cleaning lady has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not they have one now.

@Yellowdog: I’m confused. Is your comment directed at me?

I’m saying that just because you said you used to have a cleaning lady doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have one now— just that you had one earlier, who had no trouble changing the sheets.

The question I am addressing was between @Dutchess_lll and @JLeslie

But you can join in too, because after all, you know, it is your question.

@Yellowdog I said assume, which means I don’t know, I’m only assuming. assumptions are wrong all the time. I happen to be right this time. Since @jca2 was trying to put in the sheets herself it seemed like she no longer had a housekeeper doing it.

Exactly, @JLeslie. Like I wrote, “I used to have a cleaning lady and she did it. I don’t know how. It was probably a feat.”

Lol. Poor lady. She probably dreaded doing it.

I used to run a cleaning service. I had one customer who had a mattress that fit the frame so tightly, I ripped my skin trying to put the sheets on her bed. And I could walk all around the bed!

She fired me and told me it could be done, that she’d find someone else. I thought, “Whew! That’s one job I don’t need, no matter how well she pays!”

When I had such an issue I got these, I was able to pull the bed away from the wall for this purpose.
https://www.lowes.com/pl/Furniture-sliders-Moving-boxes-supplies-Storage-organization/4294713224

Schrödinger’s cleaning lady not required.

I really can’t see moving a queen size platform every week or so go change sheets. It’s typically a pretty heavy piece of furniture.

On a side note, those sliders canid linked are quite helpful when moving furniture.

My sister had a regular twin platform daybed on wheels, and it did move fairly easily, but a queen is much more of a task. She eventually got rid of that bed and has a regular queen bed now.

Still easier than doing the dance to change the sheets with the platform in place. I am a small person, I had success with those.

^^I had a nightstand next to my bed, so it would be moving the nightstand and moving the bed. I wouldn’t want to do it every week or two. That’s just me. I do agree those sliders are very helpful though.

Me too (nightstand). Still easier.
By all means, @JLeslie, don’t do it if it is too much trouble for you.
I was just answering @jca2‘s Q.

I haul the edge of the corner of the sheet down to the bottom corner of the mattress and stuff the sheet corner under the mattress as far as I can. Then I alternate pulling on the edge on one side then on the other, pulling it farther under the mattress each time.
I do the same on the opposite corner then stuff the middle part along the wall down the wall as well as possible.