Vote on best way to open a mattress
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A) cut carefully above the welt B) cut carefully below the welt C) unstitch the welt It seems that people have used all 3 methods so it would be particularly interesting to hear whether people would do it the same way again. I think I'm going to follow someone's previous suggestion of attaching velcro straps so the mattress top can be secured and yet have easy access for making refinements, or replacement of layers in a few years. |
Re: Vote on best way to open a mattress
| I actually find that the top part of the mattress makes the foam inside sleep cooler. But I say that with one caveat... It can also make the high quality replacement foam feel too soft unless you do what I did and go to the trouble... and it's A LOT of trouble... to remove the super soft squishy foam inside the quilting. I had close to 2" of foam in the quilting. One piece of convoluted super soft foam and another sheet of unconvoluted foam. When I removed it I was amazed at how different the mattress felt. Much more supportive and far more comfortable. After the foam was gone I was left with a smooth, flat top with no more dacron batting than an average mattress pad. But it really is a lot of work to remove the stitching that creates tufts out of foam and I can see why most people wouldn't bother or will just prefer to go the quick route and remove the top entirely. |
Re: Vote on best way to open a mattress
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cloud9 wrote: I actually find that the top part of the mattress makes the foam inside sleep cooler. But I say that with one caveat... It can also make the high quality replacement foam feel too soft unless you do what I did and go to the trouble... and it's A LOT of trouble... to remove the super soft squishy foam inside the quilting. I had close to 2" of foam in the quilting. One piece of convoluted super soft foam and another sheet of unconvoluted foam. When I removed it I was amazed at how different the mattress felt. Much more supportive and far more comfortable. After the foam was gone I was left with a smooth, flat top with no more dacron batting than an average mattress pad. But it really is a lot of work to remove the stitching that creates tufts out of foam and I can see why most people wouldn't bother or will just prefer to go the quick route and remove the top entirely. Cloud9, that's a great idea, I kind of wish I'd done that, because it IS nice to have a built in "top". BUT it sounds like too much work for me! Sounds like a good idea though if you have the patience. |
Re: Vote on best way to open a mattress
| I think the thing that bothered me the most about that mattress was the tufting. I could never get used to the lumpy feeling of lying on those hills and valleys. I knew they had to go. I also knew it was going to be a huge project, so I did a little bit at a time. Each week when I changed my sheets I removed a little of the stitching holding the tufting in place. It took me about a month of Sundays to remove it all. Then I cut off the fiber paper backing that covered the soft foam and removed it. Voila! Much better. But yeah, I couldn't agree more--only for those with lots of patience. Very tedious work. |