Air bed issue

[tennisgal33]

We have a 42' Itasca Meridian. Putting the bedroom slide in requires the air bed to be inclined. We've had numerous issues getting the bed to fill after travel. I'm wondering if there is a bed other than the IDEAL air bed that we could use? Obviously it would have to incline for travel.

[glen68]

We have the same bed in our Adventurer. The air problems are more than likely caused by a faulty air pump. We had to replace ours and no more air problems. There are memory foam mattresses that are made for reclining beds. We have one in our house and when we sell the house we are going to replace the air mattress with the memory foam from the house.

[crasster]

RoyB wrote:
We have used those portable twin beds with air mattress insert for tent camping for several years. We always had the air pressure problem during the night making us end up laying in a deep depression in the bed by morning haha...

If we aired up during the night then then day time pressure was really scary high...

Then the foam mattresses came on the scene which had different problem one being when it gets cold the hard the get... One of those pillows would be totally frozen up haha... Hard as a brick...

I move the foam mattress topper from the trailer to house here over the winter months when stored just for that reason...

Roy Ken

Most of them today have autofill where it will put more air in before you sink to the middle. Not entirely sure how well they work though.

[RoyB]

We have used those portable twin beds with air mattress insert for tent camping for several years. We always had the air pressure problem during the night making us end up laying in a deep depression in the bed by morning haha...

If we aired up during the night then then day time pressure was really scary high...

Then the foam mattresses came on the scene which had different problem one being when it gets cold the hard the get... One of those pillows would be totally frozen up haha... Hard as a brick...

I move the foam mattress topper from the trailer to house here over the winter months when stored just for that reason...

Roy Ken

[5thwheeleroldma]

We've had a Select Comfort in our trailer for about 12 years now and no real problems. When you go from lower to higher altitude, the pressure in the bed will increase, but not enough to burst it. The only caveat is that we sleep on a pretty soft bed. If you sleep on a hard mattress, you might have to worry about bursting it. You do have to readjust the pressure each night when travelling as your altitude will be different in most cases.