T&T: rehashing Tempurdic...again...!

[Alec McLocklin (amclockl)]

I bought a foam mattress from IKEA. They are fairly inexpensive and you
can select from 3 thicknesses. All of their mattresses come with a
zipper liner. Unzipped the liner, pulled out the foam and laid it
underneath the previous mattress on the dock. Scribed the shape of the
old onto the new and cut with a sharp blade. Reinserted into the cover
and have a new mattress for $70. Its 6 inches thick.

Alec

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[mailto:trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com] On Behalf Of
Scott H.E. Welch
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:18 PM
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Subject: Re: T&T: rehashing Tempurdic...again...!

Laura Lane Bender <laurabender@charter.net> writes:
>Has anyone bought a less expensive memory foam Tempurpedic mattress for

>your boat?  If so, was it a good deal or did you wish you and sprung
>for the real thing?

Two answers to this:

1) I bough some generic two-inch memory foam at a foam store here in
Toronto.
I use it on my home mattress and it's excellent. I just put it under a
regular quilted mattress cover.

2) On my boat I have an irregular bed shape (like most of us do). When I
bought the boat it had a latex foam mattress, which I have also been
very happy with.

The store where I bought the memory foam made custom foam mattresses,
out of both memory foam and latex. The prices were waaayyyy less than
the cost of a brand-name "Tempurpedic" mattress. Their website is at
http://www.eversoft.ca/ (no connection, just a satisfied customer,
etc.). By the way these guys actually manufacture some of the foam, and
I got a tour of the whole operation. It's pretty cool. They had a
bandsaw with 6-foot diameter wheels and a very thin blade that looked
like a serrated bread knife. I saw them sliced up a block of foam that
was about 5 X 5 X 10 feet into sheets that were about an inch thick.

Scott Welch
Product Manager, FirstClass Group

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