The next day I assembled the bed frame.

[Topstudent]

I slept on a mattress the first night as we arrived to our new house late in the evening. The next day I assembled the bed frame.

Is 'assembled' correct here and would you also use it if the bed wasn't new and the bed frame was just partly dismantled, just enough to be able to move it? Or is there a better word?

 

[emsr2d2]

If it's new and you bought it in pieces, you assembled it.
If it was previously complete and had been partly or completely dismantled, you reassembled it.

 

[Piscean]

If it was previously complete and had been partly or completely dismantled, you reassembled it.

I agree, but I am sure some people would drop the re.

I slept on a mattress the first night as we arrived to our new house

... we arrived at our new house ... .

 

[SoothingDave]

I am one of those people. I would have said "assembled is fine, but technically you re-assembled it."

 

[Kontol]

I am one of those people. I would have said "assembled is fine, but technically you re-assembled it."

Hello, SoothingDave. Why do you say "would have said?" Why not say "would say?"

 

[SoothingDave]

I would have said that if I had answered before emsr2d2.