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replacing original bed
Yahoo Message Number: 109128
The bed that's in my IB is pretty old...I've always had air beds in my stick home, and am seriously looking at one for the RV. I see where there is a brand called "Bear Air Beds"...had anyone here had any experience with, either, this brand, or using an air bed in an LD?

They are all pricey, but sleeping on a decent bed seems worth a few bucks, especially at my age...grin!

I've tried memory foam beds and they sleep too 'hot' for me...also, I'm really not as comfortable with them as I was in an air bed. So, since water beds are out...:-)...that leaves standard mattresses which should properly have a box spring under them, or an air bed.

The previous owner had changed out the original LD mattress for a pillow top mattress but it's now almost 10 years old. It is sagging toward the middle [where Junah and I end up by morning]...and I"d think just about any "just a mattress" would come to the same end sooner than later.

Full timers, step forward! BG!
Gini Free and Junah, canine xtrodinaire "Kooch" our little red home on wheels "Growing old is mandatory. Growing wise is optional."
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Gini Free and Junah, canine xtrodinaire
"CHERRYOTTE" our little red home on wheels
"Growing old is mandatory. Growing wise is optional."
 
Re: replacing original bed
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Yahoo Message Number: 109152
If you travel in the mountains and have the air bed at pretty stiff pressure settings, just be sure to release some of the pressure you put in at sea level before you start climbing.
 There could be an expensive "bang" sound otherwise. It would probably take about 6000 feet change in altitude, so you may not run into it very often unless you travel in the "real" mountains out west. I don't know for sure if the fancier "sleep number" beds have over-pressure relief valves or not.
 I do know that potato chip bags from a sea-level supplier start going "pop" at about 11,000 feet. I experienced this on a customer test flight on a 767 when we did a cabin de-pressurization to verify the oxygen masks all dropped properly!
 My daughter lived in Prescott, AZ for a couple of years and was friendly with one of the managers at her local supermarket. He said that the shelf space dedicated to chips was about 50% more in Prescott than it had been in Portland, due to chip bags from sea-level suppliers getting bigger at the 5,000 ft altitude in Prescott.