Thin Mattress Topper?

brookside wrote:
We are going to take our popup out for at least a week. The mattresses feel non-existent, like just sleeping on plywood. I want to find a thin mattress topper since we'll have to store it in our smaller popup and we need one for each end. I'm wanting the thinnest and most comfortable that we can find. I have looked online but really couldn't figure out what I would want since most things are for home mattresses or bigger RVs.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

The common foam mattress toppers come in all sizes and thicknesses. I've seen them in thicknesses from 1.5" to at least 4" available in big box retail stores.

Ed

I use a three-inch magic foam topper on both my tent bed ends. When the roof is lowered for travel the top of this mattress actually just touches the ceiling.

Three inches was a great choice for comfort for us...

Additionally we have those 2' by 2' rug carpet squares glued down on all of the wood bed area. In addition to this we also include those 2-inch square by 18-inch long foam pieces that come with the home air conditioner window units that are installed in the home opened window when raised up to install the window units. These are placed all around the tent bed areas where the fabric meets the wood tent bed floor area. This really seals off any draft areas coming from small openings around the tent bed end fabric walls when setup for sleeping..


I also had to re-seal the area where the tent bed floors are pulled out as far as they will go. Our model had a very small weather seal to close the opening between the inside front and rear trailer wall and the tent bed wood floor area. Once pulled out you could bend over on the inside hallway and see daylight in several areas of the tent bed floors where the small weather seal did not fit good. These opening attracted mosquitoes and night bugs into the trailer when it got dark outside and you had lights on inside the trailer.

I used this style of weather seal to slip over the front and rear walls of the POPUP to fix this problem.. The tent bed floors slid over the top of this weather seal as it is pulled out for setup.


Once I started working on the tent beds ends to make thing more comfortable one thing led to another...

We are snug as a bug now sleeping in our tent bed ends (No pun intended)...

ADDED NOTE: Be sure your ceiling lights 12VDc disconnect switch is functional as having those ceiling lights come on after you have lowered the roof might be a fire hazard. Every POPUP trailer I have ever seen has these installed somewhere inside the trailer to automatically disconnect the 12VDC going to the ceiling light assemblies...

Roy Ken

I ordered a Walmart 4" memory foam mattress topper, full size to cut up for my dinette cushions / bed, $109 delivered. It is a comfy bed. One of the reviews that I relied on was some one else bought for their pop up end beds and loved it.

We just bought a 2" Mattress Topper from here (mattressinsider.com)to go on top of our sofa that jackknife's into a sleeper. They make the Mattress toppers (not just a retailer)and do custom sizes. They even put the elastic straps on it for the corners so it won't slide around during the nite. Our sofa bed measures 43X72 when open and I had a heck of a time finding anything that would fit without having to get out the scissors. From the time I placed the order to arrival at my house, it was 6 days. Excellent Customer Service and the Topper is awesome! Very comfortable and we can't feel the area between the cushions or the pleated buttons which were our biggest complaints when trying to get a good nite's sleep. During the day, we keep it on top of our regular bed under the comforter. No extra space is used and no one knows it's there. I would order from them again in a heartbeat. Price was good too!

Thank you for all the responses. Also, we do fall camping and the idea of putting the window foam around the edges is a great one.

Could have used that window foam advice a few years back when we stayed in Lancaster, PA towards the end of MAY. Stayed 50ish during the day, but my little space heater worked over time when the sun dropped and the temps fell into the low 30's.

Next year we did a week in temps hovering at 100...no A/C. Gave up the PUP, bought a TT with heat/air.

cbshoestring wrote:
Could have used that window foam advice a few years back when we stayed in Lancaster, PA towards the end of MAY. Stayed 50ish during the day, but my little space heater worked over time when the sun dropped and the temps fell into the low 30's.

Next year we did a week in temps hovering at 100...no A/C. Gave up the PUP, bought a TT with heat/air.

We roughed it too! But, this time we got the A/C, furnace and the 3-way frig. Unfortunately, when we checked the mattresses and the other cushions we found them stuffed with what looks like quilt batting so anything at this point will be an improvement. We mostly sit outside when we can but eventually have to face the feel of plywood under our seats!

We added a memory foam topper to our "upgraded" mattress. It made all the difference in the world. If you decide to go with one, just be sure to check your clearance to determine how thick you can go and still close the top. Ours actually has to settle some to compress the topper to allow the top to close. It doesn't create a problem, but any thicker would probably be an issue.