SV Ramble On | New Latex Mattress
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- We had a Sleep Number bed when we lived on land. By far it was the best mattress we've ever had. Sadly, a bed like that was not possible on a boat like ours. Just one of the MANY compromises we've made to live on this boat. Before we moved aboard full-time in 2013 we had a custom foam mattress made (4" foam with 2" memory foam). It was great for about 5 years, then we added another 2" memory foam topper and that got us through another 3 years. The past few months we've gotten less than stellar sleep so a new mattress was in order. But this time we decided to do it ourselves, which was easy because we had the old mattress as a template and we reused the old covers.
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I’m Jeni and he’s Rich. We’re really just a couple of average Joes. In a nutshell we met and married in our early 20s; I graduated from college in my late 20s; adopted two cats and a dog in the late 90s; sold a house and bought a new house in our mid 30s; then sold the new house and moved onto a sailboat in our early 40s. In between all that we had a bunch of fun like camping, scuba diving, watching hockey games (Go Red Wings!), concerts, traveling, spear fishing, restoring a 1963 Chevy II Nova; spending time with family and friends. A few years ago we decided to lay off all the fun-having to fix up this old boat. We figure if we put our noses to the grindstone for a few years, we’ll be able to travel for a few years and do all the fun things we’ve missed.
We did this same thing last year love the latex!
We're just getting ready to replace the double berth in our forward stateroom. We had a custom latex mattress made 20 years ago so it's time to replace. That company is no longer in business, so we'd like to go the same route you did - buying king mattresses and cutting and covering them. You used two 3" mattresses and glued together. I couldn't understand what the name of the first kind of latex was, sounded like palalite? The second was Dunlop firm. Also, which brand & type of spray adhesive did you use? Thanks for a great video.
Hi Sue - The top is Talalay latex. The adhesive we used was Super 77 by 3M.
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2 questions
1) What tool did you use to cut the latex? Most examples I have seen used an electric carving knife.
2) What was crumbling, the latex or the old foam?
Thanks!
Hi Bob - We used a foam cutter we bought from Sailrite. It's like a jigsaw but for foam. And it was the latex that was crumbling everywhere. We've cut other foam with the same cutter and it leaves a crumbly mess too, but not as bad as the latex.
We just did the same but replaced the covers as well as ours were old and ratty.... Nice job guys! One question, do you like the Froli system and would you recommend it? Thanks!
Yes I would recommend the Froli system. We love it.