Comfortable RV Mattresses - Replace Old, Flat Camping Mattresses Easily!

Comfortable RV Mattresses - Replace Old, Flat Camping Mattresses Easily!
By Mary Engle

Now that gas prices are affordable again but airfares are sky high, it's time to dust off the camper trailer or RV for vacations and hit the road. The old RV mattresses that came with the camper become soiled, flat, and covered with dog hair over the years. Time to award yourself a comfortable night's sleep (yes, even when camping) and replace your old RV mattress easily and inexpensively. The cost of a new RV mattress is likely to be a fraction of a single airline ticket, and you'll enjoy it for a decade or more. RV mattresses are now available over the Internet, even in custom sizes!

RV mattresses are necessarily thin for purposes of conserving weight, but that four-inch thick RV mattress can easily be upgraded to a six-inch mattress with little or no increase in weight or mass with the new products that have become available over the last five to ten years.

New Technology Means a More Comfortable Sleep

Advances in foam technology mean more loft and plushness in today's thinner RV mattresses than was previously possible. New high-density slab foams last longer and provide firmer support. Convoluted (finger) foam offers a springy feel that adds to a mattresses' plushness.

Even cotton has come a long way. The weight of cotton prohibited it from being included in the content of most RV mattresses in the past, even though cotton provided a cooler summer sleep than foam-only products.

Advances in cotton technology translate into lighter-weight products with the same support and sensual, soft feel of cotton. Cotton felt layers often surround the foam layer in RV mattresses for optimal feel and sleeping comfort. Organic cotton batting is today's natural choice for mattress fiber fill. Though conventional cotton crops have a bad reputation (from heavy pesticide and insecticide use), organic cotton is becoming more widely available from mattress manufacturers.

Another material that is making RV mattresses much more comfortable is Visco-elastic foam. Visco-elastic foam is better known as memory foam - a product that is hard to beat for a sensual, plush feeling. Memory foam RV mattresses are available in a 6-inch mattress, with a two-inch memory foam layer atop a four-inch layer of polyurethane foam. That extra two inches of memory foam makes a world of difference! Memory foam is also available as a 2" RV mattress foam topper, memory foam layers sold independently that sit on top of your mattress, transforming any camper bed.

Purchasing Custom Sizes in RV Mattresses

Online futon stores specialize in mattresses that are compact and available in unusual sizes. They can easily handle custom orders for non-standard sizes, such as an RV-size twin mattress or an RV queen mattress that is a short queen size common in many RV campers. Measure carefully before you start so you know exactly what you need.

Look over the mattress offerings from a retail web store and select a mattress or two from the store's products that are close to the size you need. Then contact the online store's customer service to order the custom size. You will be ordering a traditional mattress in a non-traditional size, and the web futon store can handle the custom sizing for you.

The additional cost to get exactly what you want will vary depending on the manufacturer of the mattresses you've chosen. The cost should range from $20 extra to a maximum of $50 extra to purchase the exact size that fits in your camper!

Mary Engle is a contributor and author for the website Futons and Beanbags

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The Importance of a Quality RV Mattress

The Importance of a Quality RV Mattress
By Matthew Leary

RVs otherwise termed as Recreational Vehicles have become a style icon these days. Although in the earlier days, they were primarily used or symbolically attributed to the poor, who could not afford a normal house, nowadays Recreational Vehicles pose much more facilities than that which comes with a normal house. A typical RV consists of mattresses, a kitchen for preparation of food/snacks, a table to set them and sufficiently large storage space for storage of luggage.

Most people don't give much thought to the mattresses incorporated within a RV. For them it is just a piece of furniture. But little do they realize that they would be spending a larger part of their time in the RV Mattress either sitting or sleeping. Sleep is an important part of the human life cycle and the mattress on which one sleeps is also of immense importance. Usually RV manufactures also care less about the the RV Mattresses placed on their vehicle. Sooner or later the buyer will be changing the RV Mattress and may invest on a high performance mattress. Many kinds of RV mattress are available in the market these days. Depending upon the depth of ones pocket he/she can invest in good quality RV mattresses. Most common forms of RV mattress are spring mattress, foam mattress and air mattress. Air mattress is the costliest in the lot.

The upholstery, of which the RV mattress is covered with, should also be taken into consideration. They are the ones, which increase the comfort levels of the RV mattress. Quality of the mattress also plays a good part. Usually quality standards have been established for mattresses. The buyer should check and verify the RV mattress had been subjected to such quality tests. Different RV mattresses are available for back sleepers and side sleepers. Support and durability are some of the advantages of good RV mattress. Varied packaging techniques are also employed for packing the RV mattress.

Because of the varied nature of RVs, sometimes the buyer will be forced to build custom-made RV mattress. They are usually manufactured on some preset sizes and if such sizes doesn't fit inside the RV, then he will have no other option than to go for custom made RV mattress. He will have to manually take the readings and present it to an upholsterer, who then starts working it.

The longevity of such mattress lies on the hands of the user. An intelligent RV user will know that such mattresses are to be rotated within the RV, just like the tires are rotated, to ensure proper wear. There exist double-sided RV mattresses, which take the whole chore of mattress rotation to another level. Such mattresses can be easily flipped to the other side and used conventionally. Also care has to be taken that they are not soaked, because apart from the ruining of the mattress, it produces a stagnant smell that fills the whole of the RV. And surely no self respecting RV owner would like to travel along with a smelly ride!

Matthew Leary is an traveling enthusiast who writes extensively on RV mattresses and the usefulness of the NADA RV Blue Book. He has been on road trips lasting over 3 months and continues to do so. You can find more information on the Nada RV organization and more at his website.

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