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- Jul 25, 2007
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About a year ago we treated ourselves to a top quality mattress, a VI Sprung , as used by the Queen.. .. seriously, we got it in a sale, reduced from £1400 to £700.. We were delighted, what a great nights sleep .. pure luxury, no more sore backs..
Now being so heavy, it is really hard to turn it but one of the selling features was ' No need to turn' .. we asked about this and the sales guy assured us that it wasn't required.. so we didn't turn or look under it..
All went well until this week, nice weather, so we decided to give it an airing .. turn it and give it a good vacuum .. To our horror .,.. when we lifted it it had rotted on the bottom, about 1 mt square of the cover was totally rotten and smelled of mildew .. what a mess.. we just looked at each other in amazement and then felt gutted... what had caused the dampness.. Well, I don't know, all I can assume is it's our body moisture condensing on the cold plywood base.. no other explanation.. :Sad:
Today, I pulled it out and stripped off the rotten fabric and the inner padding and went to a local fabric store, bought new padding and a piece of bed material.. replaced and using spray glue fixed the material to the mattress.. Good as new.. and we are much wiser, from now on it will be lifted regularly and aired.. I was also thinking on laying polystyrene sheet on the base to combat the cold surface ..
So be aware .. if you have bed on a plywood base... check it now.. !
Now being so heavy, it is really hard to turn it but one of the selling features was ' No need to turn' .. we asked about this and the sales guy assured us that it wasn't required.. so we didn't turn or look under it..
All went well until this week, nice weather, so we decided to give it an airing .. turn it and give it a good vacuum .. To our horror .,.. when we lifted it it had rotted on the bottom, about 1 mt square of the cover was totally rotten and smelled of mildew .. what a mess.. we just looked at each other in amazement and then felt gutted... what had caused the dampness.. Well, I don't know, all I can assume is it's our body moisture condensing on the cold plywood base.. no other explanation.. :Sad:
Today, I pulled it out and stripped off the rotten fabric and the inner padding and went to a local fabric store, bought new padding and a piece of bed material.. replaced and using spray glue fixed the material to the mattress.. Good as new.. and we are much wiser, from now on it will be lifted regularly and aired.. I was also thinking on laying polystyrene sheet on the base to combat the cold surface ..
So be aware .. if you have bed on a plywood base... check it now.. !