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I used to buy foam Ikea mattresses specifically because they compress and roll up well. That allowed me to move from place to place with a normal car.
by ropeadopepope 9y ago
I used to buy foam Ikea mattresses specifically because they compress and roll up well. That allowed me to move from place to place with a normal car.
- meesterdude 9y agoI have such a bed. Getting it home was easy. But how do you actually compress it and roll it again? It's kinda become huge. What do you do?
- jacquesm 9y agoVacuum. Thick plastic wrap and then hook up a vacuum pump to the interior and watch the atmosphere do the heavy work for you. Then you can roll up the package.
- meesterdude 9y agoingenious! Here I was looking at steamroller rentals.
- jacquesm 9y agoIf you look at the video linked elsewhere you'll see they use a giant press to compress the mattress between two sheets of foil and then they heat seal the ends. After releasing the press it all stays nicely flat because of the same reason: there is no air in the mattress and no way for air to get into the mattress. I figure they do it that way because it is much faster than just letting the vacuum do the work which for a production facility is a must. But when you have a small budget and more time then using the vacuum directly is the best way to go. There is an interesting branch of manufacturing related to this trick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_forming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_forming