Improving awful sofa air beds ?

[me2]

Our trailer has 2 sofa air beds.

As a sofa, they are great. As beds they are terrible.

We've tried putting a foam pad on the platform instead of the air mattress. That doesn't work well because the platform is uneven. There is a support right through the middle that digs into your lower back. Not only that, but then we have to store a full length foam mattress.

Has anyone figured out a way to improve these things ?







Thanks

[Marine_By_Choic]

Bourbon works for me if taken an hour or so before bedtime;-)))

[MFL]

The air bed in mine is actually quite comfortable. It is more hassle than the old jack knife, but much better to sleep on.

Just to try it, I pulled the cushions off the dinette, put them on the air bed, without the mattress. Worked pretty well too, I fell asleep, taking an afternoon nap.

Jerry

[newman_fulltime]

toss a sleeping bag over it

look at academy get the serta air mattress

[csamayfield55x]

ours is an actual Aero bed on a frame. WE just put a mattress topper on it and it made all the difference in the world. The other problems you mention are just the nature of the beast in a cheap airbed. Not a ton you can do about that

Chris

[fj12ryder]

By golly, you've got 'em nailed. LOL

I've never been a big fan of air beds, but I always figured they had to be better than the old "jack-knife sofas" that used to come in the trailers. Maybe I've been mistaken.

[me2]

FWIW, these sofa beds are in our Chaparral 355. It's made by Coachmen. We really love the trailer otherwise.

[me2]

fj12ryder wrote:
What is it you don't like about the air bed? Too short, too tall, too lumpy, too bouncy?

They are cold to sleep on, especially if the room is cold. You basically need 2 sets of blankets, one below you and one on top.

When sleeping alone it is very hard to find the right pressure for a good sleep. They are either too hard and too soft. They have a built in air pump, so adjusting it isn't bad, but the pump only runs on AC, so the inverter has to be turned on and the pumps are very noisy. Ie, not something you can do in the middle of the night. And there is no gauge on them, so even if you do get the pressure right the one night, its almost impossible to duplicate it the next night.

And if two people sleep on them, when one person moves, the other person really feels it. And if they sleep close together, they both sink really deeply into the mattress.

And the bed isn't level. The top half of the bed (by the "headboard" is about 1.5" lower than the bottom half of the bed, because of the way the bottom folds out.

Otherwise, the size of the bed is good. And they aren't terrible to set up and take down.

I'm wondering if some of the problem is caused by the support under the air mattress being poor. The top half of the sofa has basically nothing under the air mattress.

[fj12ryder]

What is it you don't like about the air bed? Too short, too tall, too lumpy, too bouncy?