Fold out sofa bed with air mattress

We checked it out again and even though it seems factory, I think the velcro holding it on is not and is an after market one. The cap broke anyway when I tried it, so our it goes.

So now we will replace it with a pump and be good to go.

I have a pump for my sofa's air mattress, but found that you could fill it up in half the time with a small shop vacuum. I bought one for $29 at Ace Hardware. Hook up the vacuum hose to the air outlet (blower) side on the vacuum. Only takes a minute or so to fill'r up!
Duane

Ours if a Flair brand sofa/bed, and we couldn't be happier with it. We use it a lot and the only complaint I see is the squeaky noise it makes when moving around on it. I don't know how other's can be "complicated", ours had the pump built into the mattress. Fold out bed, turn switch, shut off when full. In the morning, reverse the procedure and you're done. It takes about 3 mins to set up and put away.

I have been closely following this topic because we have never used our inflatable mattress/sofa. When we bought the TT, over two years ago, we unfolded it, saw the bag and the hand pump and decided NO WAY. After reading mosseater's post above, I went out to the TT and took another look. I found the plug in pump and had the whole thing ready in 5 minutes. Thank you so much!! lizzie

I wish I was so lucky.

They sell mattresses with built in pumps. They'd probably retrofit just fine and a queen sells for about $50.