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Temporary fix for coil mattress

Mar 31, 2009 4:20 PM

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Location: So. Cal.
Joined: Mar 25, 2009
Points: 14

Hi All,
I can't say how much I have enjoyed and learned from this forum. I am especially fascinated with the mattress surgeries and the photos. Can't wait to cut mine open. However, I have made a temporary fix of our body impressions today and I want to make sure I won't hurt the springs and I am sure you guys will have the answer... so here are the details;
4 year old Ca. King Chattam & Wells Luxe Vll (was top of the line before Mr. Kluft moved it into Spring Air line) almost 7 grand!
Most comfortable bed I have ever experienced. However, we now have severe body impressions, more so on one side.
I have a cutaway jpeg I will try to post, however suffice to say from the cutaway picture, it looks like a regular one-sided pocketed coil mattress with 2" of wool batting then 1" of pink foam, with a 5" topper sewn on top. The topper or Euro-top I believe they called it is filled with what looks like 2" of pink foam 1" latex I"pink convoluted foam, then 1" cotton batting then another 1" of something quilted into the top cover. I remember something about memory foam in the specs but I don't know where that is.
Anyhoo, I had an egg crate foam topper hanging around, and after reading some posts here about putting carpet or other stuff under the spring mattress to fill out the body impressions I decided to give it a try. I cut the foam in half and folded each side to approximate the impressions length and width and while my dh held up each side of the mattress I laid the foam on top of the box springs. Works great, I have my old bed back. However, I was wondering if displacing the mattress springs in this way would or could damage them. I remember reading a post here about moving or bending the springs more than 30 degrees would damage them. I would hate to do that, cuz I have a mattress surgery in my future and I wouldn't want to ruin what I believe are quite good springs.
What do you think?
JoJo
p.s. I can't find the forum instructions for posting photos...any info or links to old posts with instructions?

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