Replacement Mattress Options?
Yes, I did search and didn't really find what I was looking for. :-) For those of you that have replaced your mattress, what brand/type did you go with? I have a standard queen, so size isn't a pro...
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rgolding wrote:
I see a couple of people talking about "Sleep Number Mattresses", how long have you been using the "Sleep Number Mattresses"?
My mattress is not a 'RV' model. We've been using it for four years and are extremely happy.
The most important thing for my wife and I is that I like a pretty firm sleeping platform, and she does not. Causes her arthritis in her hip to act up.
We've had $1,000 Tempurpedic mattresses, $1,500 Serta Perfect Sleeper mattresses over the past 8 years. Anything soft enough for her caused me to have terrible back cramps. Anything hard enough for me caused her hip pain so bad she could not walk some days.
For us - Sleep Number is perfect.
It also survived three cats in the home (all were old, and all are gone now).
We do know some of the cautions about moving the mattress. Putting it in the TT likely voids their warranty. They are really a...hole about how their tech must set it up and move it.
It is really easy to do because it is completely modular in construction.
One thing we will have to remember, and have on our checklist is to lower the air pressure/ deflate the two air chambers if we move to high altitude locations.
That's the only negative I've heard from RV folks about air type beds like the Sleep Number. Folks don't realize that at 5,000 ft - the air pressure is approx. 25% of the sea level air pressure. So the air pressure already inside the mattress chambers increased by 400% as you drive from sea level to Albuquerque.
As far as reviews - some people don't like the separate chambers with a foam block between them. It does make moving across the bed 'different' than a traditional one surface mattress.
A good mattress topper is essential for any mattress in my opinion. We got one from Camping World and it made a huge improvement in the el-cheapo foam brick in our last TT. It does improve the Sleep Number also.
Other reviews have complained about leaks. Those are almost always caused by people not watching the pressure changes as elevation changes. This is not a put it in and forget type mattress. Flexibility in sleeping firmness means complexity in operation.
Like anything in an RV with moving parts - you have to be willing to take the effort to properly maintain / use the item.
