New R/V mattress

Many RV companies have an aggrement with one or another supplier.

Had my Class A came with a Standard size matress I'd have had a host of options. but since I have a "Short Queen" (Wide as a queen but length of a full) my options were limited.

We replaced our RV mattress with a solid memory foam, about 10" thick. Cut to whatever size we wanted, which for us was RV Queen.

Most decent size towns will have a custom mattress company. Probably several. You might be surprised at what they can do for you locally. Ours was more than helpful. We pulled the trailer over to them and they installed and removed the old one for us.

Be careful about cheap memory foam mattresses. We bought a cheap one 5 years ago and it is terrible. Just got back from a 24 day trip and the cheapo mattress is getting replaced before I spend another night in that camper. I'll be replacing it with a higher quality memory foam. We have a nice memory foam in our house and we love it.

K Charles wrote:
Sleep Number works good for us.

2X here for the both of us too. It's also light in weight vs other types. We like it better than the thick latex foam mattress we had in the sticks and bricks. If you're over a setting of 30, you need to reduce pressures at higher altitudes.

Amazon does a good job describing mattresses and usually specifies the firmness rating and how hot it sleeps. We chose a Lucid latex foam hybrid mattress (pocketed inner springs, foam top) as memory foam sleeps too hot for us. It shipped rolled up and compressed so was easy to get into the trailer, albeit heavy. We like the mattress so much that we replaced the Sleep Number king in our house with the same mattress. Much improved sleep and no transitions to the trailer.

"If you're over a setting of 30, you need to reduce pressures at higher altitudes."

GREAT advice!!! To clarify, when traveling in to high altitudes reduce bed pressure before leaving camp.

We recently moved into our 5th wheel and will likely end up living in it for many months. We quickly discovered the existing mattress is lacking. Even with the stay-at-home restrictions we were able to visit a local Sleep Number store and decided on the P6. We skipped the RV models in favor of getting a thicker top with the Sleep iQ and cooking.

We just have to wait until the restrictions are eased enough so they can enter our “home” and remove the current mattress.

Question; our current bed setup uses a metal frame with nylon webbing, that rests on a wood box (storage). Would or should we need to add a platform of plywood for the new mattress to sit on? Is anyone else using a sleep number on the metal frame with nylon strapping as a base?

Thanks
OJ

We have a memory foam but really love the 3" blue topper we got at Costco. We have it on our mattresses at home too and love them. We had a sleep number one before this and didn't like it. Too much work in a RV (air pressure over passes etc etc)

MarkieBob wrote:
We have a memory foam but really love the 3" blue topper we got at Costco. We have it on our mattresses at home too and love them. We had a sleep number one before this and didn't like it. Too much work in a RV (air pressure over passes etc etc)

Well if it's "too much work" the day of travel to hold a button for a few seconds to lower the beds air pressure your life must very stressful.

We full-time 5 years now and have our SN from our house and would never own anything else. FYI there are different levels of comfort and expense so one should take a test on one in a SN store.

Pretty much anything you buy will be far better than what they call a mattress that comes in the RV. We've put memory foam mattresses in our last two RVs. First was from bed in a box, before they got really proud of their products. The most recent was from Walmart online. If you are really particular, it may be worth purchasing from a local mattress store where you can see the display models. I've just relied on the online reviews and ordered ones with good reviews. We've ordered them for the house and RV over the years.

A couple of things to look out for from experience:

• Measure your existing mattress. You may or may not want to alter the size of the replacement, but don't assume all queen or king mattresses are "standard". They aren't. There are "RV" (short), California (Long), and completely odd ball sizes. When we ordered our first replacement, we assumed it was an RV queen. When we got it, it was about 4" shorter than the existing mattress. Our current trailer came with an RV queen, but I measured before we ordered and decided I had room to modify the platform and replace with a regular queen. Custom sizes can be ordered but may be more expensive.
• If you have under bed storage with gas struts to hold it up, they probably won't hold the weight of a memory foam. Not a huge problem for most, but something to be aware of. For now I use a 1x2 cut to length to hold it up, but stronger replacement struts are available.
• Thicker isn't always better. We ordered a 12" thick mattress for our latest. It's very comfortable, but while 4" difference in height doesn't sound like much, it is.
• Weight difference. Memory foam is going to be significantly heavier than what comes in the RV. The memory foam is probably somewhere in the 60-100 lb range for a queen mattress.

Wow, on edit, just realized this thread is 2 months old. In normal times, I would assume the OP has already made a decision but with everything going on, maybe not. Either way hopefully this will be of use for someone...