Drop down bed

[Wayne_Lisa]

Hi all just wondering can you or do you leave the quilts on your drop down beds when you raise them back up.

 

[Grasmere9]

Watching with interest as we were thinking the same...

 

[RM_Marine]

Same here

 

[Stealaway]

It seems on Burstner you can maybe leave the quilt but not the pillars.
The bed has to hit a micro switch / limit switch otherwise it looses its brain

 

[Figaro]

Mines got no microswitches (or brains lol) so duvet & pillows stay up there with no problem

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[syelad]

Hiya, we had a Swift 614 and if you even left the duvet on the bed wouldn’t go back up.

 

[spitfire]

Bavaria Duvet but not pillows without changing the stopping point which would mean roof is lower lol

 

[Kozikot]

We do on both our Double electric beds,but just raise them high enough for headroom, as found if we don't leave an air gap with the roof the bedding feels damp...

 

[Bailey 15]

Yes we leave in situ on our Benimar Tessoro 468
Very comfortable, wouldn’t go back to cushion beds

 

[Bailey 15]

486 even

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[BusyBuilder]

Our Hymer B544 everything stays in place

 

[125BEER]

We leave duvets etc on when pitched but to travel no, seat belt style clip won't secure

 

[Maggie and Raddie]

Duvet & pillows on ours plus ladder, no prob's.
Pilote P740c (A Class)

 

[Bailey 15]

Our table lives up there as well until in use
we haven’t got a fixed table ( bonus with a 486) plenty of living space and really comfortable bed at night without the extra length of a motorhome

 

[Lenny HB]

We have to arrange the bedding carefully especially the pillows otherwise the latches that hold it up won't latch in place.

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[Guigsy]

I think people are talking about two different things here...

Electric drop-down beds. Often over the lounge on c-class motorhomes. Some of them are picky about stuff being left on top. The sensors or motors can trip out.

Manual drop-down beds. Typically over the cab on a-classes. Will normally latch with stuff on top of them if you shove hard enough...

 

[orridge]

Duvets and pillows stay on the front bed in our Laika

 

[scousebird]

We have electric drop down beds in our Chausson 630 and we can leave the quilt and pillows on there but we have to separate the pillows.

 

[RobbyMClark]

Mines got no microswitches (or brains lol) so duvet & pillows stay up there with no problem

Yes we leave in situ on our Benimar Tessoro 468
Very comfortable, wouldn’t go back to cushion beds

We have electric drop down beds in our Chausson 630 and we can leave the quilt and pillows on there but we have to separate the pillows.

Ditto to all of them above, leave a little gap above until we go out for the day, then drop bed down a touch to get some airflow across it.

 

[deleted79651]

It seems on Burstner you can maybe leave the quilt but not the pillars.
The bed has to hit a micro switch / limit switch otherwise it looses its brain

Our Burtstner has just enough space [tested by my walking underneath the raised bed without scraping my skull] for the bed, with pillows on top of the mattress, duvet and 5cm mattress topper to be raised in situ. The only precautions we take are to ensure that the overhanging duvet sides are folded onto the mattress area until the raising bed clears the dinette head restraints and, at the cab side, the duvet side clears the reading light switch [otherwise the duvet turns off the light, and it gets very dark ... Good trick for Halloween, but otherwise a proctological irritant ...]

Steve

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[rolosroller]

Electric drop-down bed over the lounge on c-class motorhome
Three pillows two quilts & a mattress topper left on bed
no problems.

 

[Folkranger]

We have to arrange the bedding carefully especially the pillows otherwise the latches that hold it up won't latch in place.

Same. It depends on the type of bed. I've adjusted the locking blocks on ours to make it a bit easier.

 

[Wayne_Lisa]

I think people are talking about two different things here...

Electric drop-down beds. Often over the lounge on c-class motorhomes. Some of them are picky about stuff being left on top. The sensors or motors can trip out.

Manual drop-down beds. Typically over the cab on a-classes. Will normally latch with stuff on top of them if you shove hard enough...

We’ve just purchased a motorhome with 2 electric drop down bed and used for the first time and raised it up with pillows and duvet on and it blew a fuse.

The beds have built in spot lights on the underneath so when you raise it they come on when they hit the sensor so you know when to take your finger off the controls.

With duvet and pillows it struggles to reach sensor so kept finger on control to long hence that’s why fused blew.

 

[deleted79651]

We’ve just purchased a motorhome with 2 electric drop down bed and used for the first time and raised it up with pillows and duvet on and it blew a fuse.

The beds have built in spot lights on the underneath so when you raise it they come on when they hit the sensor so you know when to take your finger off the controls.

With duvet and pillows it struggles to reach sensor so kept finger on control to long hence that’s why fused blew.

We don't have the posh sensors on the Burstner, but if we do 'push' the motor to 'squash' the pillows, we do blow the fuse, hence the 'bonce scrape' test [Stourbridge born ...] if my hair just touches the bed underside, aka the ceiling, the fuse won't blow. We also check by inserting a finger or two on top of the pillow to check that the pillow is not crushed. The 'landing approach' finishes with 3 short prods of the 'up' button for that final clearance nudge.

After 22 years, it gives us something to talk about first thing in a morning ....

Steve & Elaine

 

[Brand New Day]

Hi, we leave the quilt and pillows on the bed. We don’t put it to the very top but it’s still high enough for us. Husband is 6ft.1 and it’s fine for him.

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[Brand New Day]

We’ve just purchased a motorhome with 2 electric drop down bed and used for the first time and raised it up with pillows and duvet on and it blew a fuse.

The beds have built in spot lights on the underneath so when you raise it they come on when they hit the sensor so you know when to take your finger off the controls.

With duvet and pillows it struggles to reach sensor so kept finger on control to long hence that’s why fused blew.

I blew a fuse on our second outing trying to put it right on the ceiling, we also have lights underneath. Now we take it almost to the top and it’s fine for us. Husband is 6ft.1 and it’s good for him. The spotlights under the bed don’t work unless it is right at the top, not blowing a fuse again but to be honest we wouldn’t use them anyway, they are way too bright for our liking

 

[deleted79651]

I blew a fuse on our second outing trying to put it right on the ceiling, we also have lights underneath. Now we take it almost to the top and it’s fine for us. Husband is 6ft.1 and it’s good for him. The spotlights under the bed don’t work unless it is right at the top, not blowing a fuse again but to be honest we wouldn’t use them anyway, they are way too bright for our liking

The 5cm mattress topper squeezes the clearance on Brunhilde and we too have blown the fuse a couple of times! The underbed ceiling lights will work irrespective of the bed position [as I discovered when I left them on after lowering the bed, but I was able to see where the hoover was needed ...].

Morning routine now includes raising the bed 95% 'ish and then a couple of gentle, short button presses whilst I stand underneath to check for headroom [having smacked the bonce on the ceiling a couple of times, causing our neighbours to wonder whether we were having an early morning orgy as I shouted passionately 'Oh f*ck!' and the van rocked ...

Steve

 

[Paulypaul]

Duvet & pillows on ours plus ladder, no prob's.
Pilote P740c (A Class)

That would a G740C wouldn't it?

 

[Guigsy]

Our a-class has a manual drop-down bed over the cab. During the day we shove the ladder up there and leave the duvet and one set of pillows on. But my other half loves pillows that are large and heavy enough to be used as a weapon. The bed won't go high enough to latch with those monsters on. So they double up as lounge seat cushions during the day.

 

[Rapido925M]

Acalss with manual drop down bed over the cab. I fitted a mattress topper and left the duvet plus pillows up there by removing the 2 screws which hold the restraining clip to the ceiling and remaking them further along the webbing so the clip hangs lower.

Gordon

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