How are waterbeds anyway? I’ve never slept in one but I’m curious.
My air mattress was very cool! Aired up in just a few minutes, and the compressor is attached. You just have to plug it in and flip the switch and wait.
After spending a night on the bed, it’s definitely way better sleep than on the rollout. I can turn over without having to worry about shifting and adjusting in place, because I’ll fall off if I try to do that on a rollout bed (I was actually able to completely roll over three times from edge to edge–I really missed having a queen!). I am also happy with the firmness of the mattress–it doesn’t bow in the middle at all. I’m a middle-heavy person and I was lying down flat, no butt-bow like a traditional smaller air mattress. It’s made of heavy duty PVC plastic, which I think is responsible for its integrity. And I don’t have pets so it won’t be punctured by anything (though reviews have stated that pets play on it without any trouble, since the “pillowtop” is made of thick cloth–it looks like the top of a real mattress and feels pretty similar to one-and it zips off for washing!).
Haven’t tried putting a sheet on it yet (I didn’t buy any because it shipped so fast, and I wanted to eyeball it before getting sheets anyway). I do think it would be advisable to get a long queen (if they make those) just in case, because I’ve heard sheets roll up from the sides (as stated above too) if they’re even slightly too short, on this particular model. But the velcro is not a bad idea either. I know they sell heavy duty velcro at craft stores so I could always go that route if necessary.
My only complaint (which isn’t really a complaint) is that the mattress is so big that it barely fits around my other crap in the room.
Also, I don’t want to sound more like a product shill than I already am (:smack:). So if you are curious about the one I got, feel free to PM.
Pillow top mattress on a box spring on a bed frame with head board and foot board. I love my bed frame. I detest my bed. My boyfriend bought it when we first started dating, after his old water bed developed a sizable leak. I wasn’t there when he picked it out and since we hadn’t been together long, my input wasn’t considered.
Well, 12 years later it’s time to get rid of the damn piece of crap bed!! I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT!!! I wake up with a backache every day and we have both had back surgery already so back health should be a priority. The problem is that he LOVES the piece of crap. When we finish paying for all the really necessary home expenses (like fixing our shower, new stove) we will probably get a sleep number bed. Then he can sleep on a marshmallow and I can sleep on a rock. The addition of his CPAP and a heated bed pad have helped me to actually sleep at night (the heat feels good on my back and helps me to be able to bend over in the morning and the silence is golden) but I spent the first 28 years of my life sleeping on just box springs and I haven’t managed to adjust to a soft bed.
Full-size mattress and box spring on top of a four-poster antique bed frame that my parents gave me when they were clearing out their basement. It’s great. We went to buy the mattress and I lay down on top of the first one, decided I liked that one, and went with it. Don’t regret it at all 6 months later.
Edit: Whoa, congodwarf, you used to sleep on top of just a box spring? How was that not hellishly uncomfortable? All the ones I’ve ever encountered, that’s like just sleeping on a piece of plywood. I guess if you were used to it and didn’t know anything else, then maybe it would work, but I can’t even imagine that. I’d rather sleep on the floor.
Bedframe with box spring and mattress, covered with a 3" wool mattress topper, along with a wool duvet and pillow. I would have had a wool mattress too, but couldn’t afford it when I was purchasing the other wool bedding, and would have had difficulty bringing it to the UK anyway, so it’s just as well. The wool topper on a regular mattress is all right for my purposes, if not perfect.
A king-size platform bed. Just a mattress*, no box springs, and it’s the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept on . . . even with 2 humans, 2 cats and 2 dogs.
*From the Original Mattress Factory. And no, I don’t work there.
I exaggerated slightly. It wasn’t box springs for the entire time.
My first bed was a trundle bed. My second bed was a bunk bed (those mattresses are not much better than box springs). After I fell of the bed and fractured my skull, I slept on the floor (on a pile of blankets) for 2 years until my mother could afford to buy me a real bed. My real bed had a mattress and a box spring but at some point the mattress disappeared (I have always suspected my oldest sister) so I slept on the box spring. I was actually quite comfortable on the box spring since I was used to crappy sleeping conditions. When I went to foster care, I generally slept on bunk beds again with mattresses that were in even worse condition than the one my mom had for us. One of them even had a hole in the mattress right under where my butt went. My last foster home had a real mattress but it had been around since my foster mother’s oldest daughter had been a kid and she was 20 years older than me so the mattress was probably 35 years old by that point. I spent 3 years on that bed, which was too soft and had springs that dug into my back.
So, I didn’t spend my WHOLE life on box springs but some of the mattresses were worse than the box springs. I have softened up in my old age but I still prefer a much harder surface than what I sleep on now and will still go to the floor if I’m having trouble sleeping. I did actually sleep on a bunk bed again from 27-29 but the quality of them has definitely improved since the early 80’s. It had way more padding than I remembered them having when I was a kid. The bunk bed mattresses we had as kids were basically a rectangular frame with a wood divider going across the short way (making 2 squares). The 2 square parts had springs. Unless you were the right size to put the small of your back right in the middle of the mattress, that wooden divider would press into your back or butt.
Neither is dog hair.