My husband and I are not large people. We are very fit and active and are not overweight in any way, shape, or form. Imagine our surprise when we are woken up in the middle of the night because one of the supporting beams under the mattress has broken. It snapped in half with no provocation after we had been sleeping on it for a few hours. We are jolted towards the ground and forced awake. Upon looking at the mattress, the supporting beam has punctured our mattress. Now we have to deal with trying to return something that could have hurt us or our children AND repairing our mattress. My uncle is a professional carpenter and he assembled this bed for us, so I know it was not an assembly issue but actually a design flaw in weight distribution.  Save your money and don't buy this piece of crap. Now lets cross our fingers and hopefully this company has a good return policy...