Making an emperor bed

#1

Post by MiddleEndian » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 2:30 PM UTC

Re: Making an emperor bed

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Post by CommieBobDole » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 6:22 PM UTC

Maybe it's just me, but the pictures of it inside the encasement with seams and lumps everywhere make it look incredibly uncomfortable.

Also it seems only marginally larger than a King mattress.

Edit: On further examination, I think the lumpy picture may be of the bottom of the mattress. Which makes more sense.

Edit 2: Or maybe not. From the article: "On top I would put 2" of buckling column gel, which is a squishy material similar to a bottomless rubber ice cube tray." So I guess all that lumpiness is in fact the top.

Re: Making an emperor bed

#3

Post by TamDenholm » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 6:45 PM UTC

I’d love to see a cost breakdown for this.

Re: Making an emperor bed

#4

Post by rwmj » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 6:51 PM UTC

Is this fire safe? What happens if someone drops a smouldering match/cigarette/etc on that pile of latex, foam and gel?

Re: Making an emperor bed

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Post by mosselman » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 6:51 PM UTC

I highly doubt that the extra surface area is worth the poor quality an most likely comfort of the improvised mattress. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t buy into all expensive mattresses being better than cheap ones, however, crappy mattresses do exist, I have experienced plenty, and they still all looked better than this.

Re: Making an emperor bed

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Post by rtkwe » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 7:01 PM UTC

CommieBobDole wrote: post #2

Maybe it's just me, but the pictures of it inside the encasement with seams and lumps everywhere make it look incredibly uncomfortable. Also it seems only marginally larger than a King mattress. Edit: On further examination, I think the lumpy picture may be of the bottom of the mattress. Which makes more sense. Edit 2: Or maybe not. From the article: "On top I would put 2" of buckling column gel, which is a squishy m…

The lumps look like small bits of extra fabric from the fabric backing on the buckling column gel. It looked pretty thin so I doubt they'd be that noticeable actually laying on the bed. It probably just looks so lumpy because of the thing encasement/fitted sheet.

Re: Making an emperor bed

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Post by MiddleEndian » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 7:07 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #4

Is this fire safe? What happens if someone drops a smouldering match/cigarette/etc on that pile of latex, foam and gel?

The encasement is advertised as fire retardant, bed bug resistant, and some other things I don't recall at the moment. There are inspectors and such for mattress-related products so I assume that this is reasonably accurate.

Re: Making an emperor bed

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Post by Freak_NL » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 7:07 PM UTC

> At this point, I decided the only thing that made sense was to build my own mattress from scratch.

Bless this mindset. The internet would be a lot less interesting without the makers and their write-ups.

Re: Making an emperor bed

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Post by MiddleEndian » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 7:14 PM UTC

CommieBobDole wrote: post #2

Maybe it's just me, but the pictures of it inside the encasement with seams and lumps everywhere make it look incredibly uncomfortable. Also it seems only marginally larger than a King mattress. Edit: On further examination, I think the lumpy picture may be of the bottom of the mattress. Which makes more sense. Edit 2: Or maybe not. From the article: "On top I would put 2" of buckling column gel, which is a squishy m…

The gel is a uniform grid. It's intended to be that way. The minor lumps are the sheets which are not super tight, but as another user mentioned I cannot detect them.

Regarding the size, yeah I did realize that when I finished, but it's still visibly larger than a king in person. If I were doing it from scratch knowing that I know now I'd probably do 8x8 and then I wouldn't have had to cut the buckling column gel and it would be even more comical.

Edit: Regarding the size again, I already knew the Queen sized mattress was slightly too short for bed habits even though I am not 80" tall, and the King is the same height. The California King is the full 7' tall but 6' is slightly less than my wingspan and I wanted that to be covered.

Re: Making an emperor bed

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Post by rootedbox » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #8

> At this point, I decided the only thing that made sense was to build my own mattress from scratch. Bless this mindset. The internet would be a lot less interesting without the makers and their write-ups.

I get what your saying; but this is also how we end up with hacky software at companies..

The 'The I'm pretty sure I can make this better(or cheaper) myself... even if there is an off the shelf version done by dedicated professionals.'