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Occasional mattress help needed
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abingdonboy
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Hi All,
My mum is coming to stay. Previously we have used an old spare mattress we had on the dining room floor, but the mattress had to go (old and taking up too much space).
So I am looking for alternatives….
Air beds are out, as her husband is large and she is small, so she ends up getting catapulted out of bed in the middle of the night!
We have no room for a sofa bed.
What else is there?
My thought is may be a futon mattress that we could roll up and put in the loft…
What do you think?
As always, all help much appreciated.
Regards,
AB.
My mum is coming to stay. Previously we have used an old spare mattress we had on the dining room floor, but the mattress had to go (old and taking up too much space).
So I am looking for alternatives….
Air beds are out, as her husband is large and she is small, so she ends up getting catapulted out of bed in the middle of the night!
We have no room for a sofa bed.
What else is there?
My thought is may be a futon mattress that we could roll up and put in the loft…
What do you think?
As always, all help much appreciated.
Regards,
AB.
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How about seperate air beds for them? The ones from Argos are comfy for a couple of nights.Some days you're the dog..... most days you're the tree!0
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can recomend the aerobed's - bit more expensive than a normal air bed but really comfy and dead easy to inflate/deflate & store0
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abingdonboy wrote: »Air beds are out, as her husband is large and she is small, so she ends up getting catapulted out of bed in the middle of the night!
:rotfl: Love it.0 -
How about the guest mattresses you see in various supermarkets - I know Lidl had them in a couple of weeks ago, if you pop along now they might still have them in. They are basically fairly thin mattresses that fold up, only seen them in single though.
Similar to this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Guest-Chair-Beanbag-Bed-Futon-Mattress-Bean-Bag-Cotton_W0QQitemZ290336745753QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=126489490730&rvr_id=126489490730&cguid=8c26b0bb1270a0aad4962016fef32b92
Or this http://www.purr-o-lux.co.uk/index.php/beds/budget-beds/folding-guest-stopover-mattress.html
Been looking ourselves as we have the same problem - although I would love to say the catapulting action!!!!!!!!!!!What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare0 -
Hi,
We've got an Aerobed from Argos to try, if it doesn't work out then it will have to go back and we will rethink....
Thanks for the help.
Regards,
AB.0 -
i can report that the Aerobed was a success. It may be 10 times the price of an airbed, but it works as a comfortable mattress (which in my experience an airbed does not)...
Thanks for the help.
AB.0 -
Why not give them your bed for a couple of nights and you sleep on anything suitable - poss borrowed? This of course only works if they don't visit very often.0
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