It serves the purpose, but it's not very solid. You'll want to be sure you've got a good base beneath this. We bought it instead of a box spring because the mattress we used is quite thick and a box spring would have made the bed too high and hidden the headboard. Our bed had a rather weak center support system and it collapsed. This board then bent and fell through the bed and we woke up on the floor. Not ideal. Other than that however, makes a fantastic low profile mattress base.