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Mattress-packing via machine pix: https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/965691925712875521 https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/965691925712875521 Instead of

Mattress-packing via machine pix: https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/965691925712875521 https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/965691925712875521 Instead of merely airing the bed each morning I run a dehumidifer. Hopefully this will reduce mould & mites. Now HN can tell me why my personal mattress hack is a bad idea.

analog31 9y ago
At last I have an excuse for not making the bed in the morning. ;-) When my kids were tots and we took them to day care, the day care center had a collection of little beds for naps, which were some kind of durable fabric mesh stretched over a frame. I've often wondered how that would work as a general purpose mattress for adults, with little chance of festering over time.
- mc32 9y ago
  You mean something like army cots[1]? [1]http://armynavysuperstores.com/cots.htm http://armynavysuperstores.com/cots.htm
  - st26 9y ago
    (Plenty functional, not that comfortable)
  - analog31 9y ago
    Yeah, that's pretty much it. I suppose toddlers don't weigh as much as adults, and can probably sleep on anything.
- goldenkey 9y ago
  As far as I know, any kind of hammock or suspension bed will ultimately suffer from uneven pressure points. Unless the frame is filled in, in the middle, which would make it a normal mattress, then your weight is going to be pushing back on you mostly laterally via the perimeter where the attachment of the mesh happens. Sleeping surfaces are meant to support the body from the bottom in an even fashion in order to minimize pressure points. This is why memory foam is so effective - instead of having 1024 springs, add more add more!!! - we just get a porous composite material with 1000000 tiny nooks which basically act as springs. Latex on the other hand, if not in foam form, can be solid, and gains its "spring" properties just from its tensile chemistry alone. No nooks needed. But latex foam is sold..which is a marriage of the two ideas. In any case, hammocks aren't gonna hurt you from sleeping on em occasionally, especially since the pressure points will mostly be your back as hammocks are often hung loosely, so that the attachment points can be much much higher than your actual body, therefore moving most of the force to a vertical pressure, instead of that lateral pressure we talked about.
closeparen 9y ago
This is why it's hilarious that they offer return policies. You really think you're going to coax your mattress back into the box?
- joshvm 9y ago
  When I returned a Casper they sent a man&van to pick it up.
- sigzero 9y ago
  They send someone to pick it up. You don't have to get it back in the box. With most of them you get 100 days to try it out (some are up to 365 days). If you don't like it, you call them and they come and get it.

analog31 9y ago

At last I have an excuse for not making the bed in the morning. ;-) When my kids were tots and we took them to day care, the day care center had a collection of little beds for naps, which were some kind of durable fabric mesh stretched over a frame. I've often wondered how that would work as a general purpose mattress for adults, with little chance of festering over time.

mc32 9y ago
You mean something like army cots[1]? [1]http://armynavysuperstores.com/cots.htm http://armynavysuperstores.com/cots.htm
- st26 9y ago
  (Plenty functional, not that comfortable)
- analog31 9y ago
  Yeah, that's pretty much it. I suppose toddlers don't weigh as much as adults, and can probably sleep on anything.
goldenkey 9y ago
As far as I know, any kind of hammock or suspension bed will ultimately suffer from uneven pressure points. Unless the frame is filled in, in the middle, which would make it a normal mattress, then your weight is going to be pushing back on you mostly laterally via the perimeter where the attachment of the mesh happens. Sleeping surfaces are meant to support the body from the bottom in an even fashion in order to minimize pressure points. This is why memory foam is so effective - instead of having 1024 springs, add more add more!!! - we just get a porous composite material with 1000000 tiny nooks which basically act as springs. Latex on the other hand, if not in foam form, can be solid, and gains its "spring" properties just from its tensile chemistry alone. No nooks needed. But latex foam is sold..which is a marriage of the two ideas. In any case, hammocks aren't gonna hurt you from sleeping on em occasionally, especially since the pressure points will mostly be your back as hammocks are often hung loosely, so that the attachment points can be much much higher than your actual body, therefore moving most of the force to a vertical pressure, instead of that lateral pressure we talked about.

closeparen 9y ago

This is why it's hilarious that they offer return policies. You really think you're going to coax your mattress back into the box?

joshvm 9y ago
When I returned a Casper they sent a man&van to pick it up.
sigzero 9y ago
They send someone to pick it up. You don't have to get it back in the box. With most of them you get 100 days to try it out (some are up to 365 days). If you don't like it, you call them and they come and get it.