Englander Mattress

No I am not a troll. I’m sorry but I have no idea how else I can title that question, lol

My boyfriend is visiting me from England, my bed is too small so I bought a giant air mattress. It’s not the thin kind, it’s a more raised kind and the kind I can put sheets on etc.

I have roommates who are all okay with him staying over as we have our own rooms, but I’d rather not create awkward situations so would an air mattress make sex too loud? We’re not the wild types or anything, it’s just something I’m self-conscious about, plus I remember how much I hated it when my previous roommates had obnoxiously loud sex

My elderly mother sleeps on a hospital bed. She complains the mattress isn’t soft enough. Can I buy a replacement mattress somewhere? What size is the mattress of a hospital bed? Thank you!

We live in England but my husband is French and his parents live in France.

Since we had our first child they want to see us regularly. Before it could be more than a year at a time before we’d see them and we’d have to go there. They never came here. Now I’m expecting my second and due in just over a week but I’m dreading giving birth because I know they’ll be coming over. It sounds extreme but that’s how strongly I feel about it.

Right from the start I did my best to get on with them but always found it hard. It’s actually just my mother in law. She’s so over bearing and we really clash.

The first time they came here (when I had our first child) they stayed for a week, sleeping in our bed so I had to sleep on a mattress on the floor. She would just take my son from my without asking and disappear on really long walks. Being a new mum I didn’t want to be apart from my baby. They even took him in the bedroom with them and kept him there all night, feeding him formula even though I was breast feeding to give me a break.

I speak very poor French and they speak no English so we have to use my husband as a go between but when I tried talking to him he refused to say anything to his parents, saying I was being ungrateful and they just wanted to help.

Then I had a hemorrhage and ended up back in hospital but when the paramedics arrived they were insisting on keeping my son with them. I was obviously very distressed and the paramedics insisted on bringing my son with me.

Ever since then it has been down hill. They always stayed in our bed until last time when my husband told them they’d have to stay in a holiday cottage across the road. Usually this meant us sleeping on the floor and they were even having rather noise sex in our bed on a couple of occasions. Aside from freaking me out, my son was sleeping in the next room and they kept waking him up.

When they are here they just completely take over. Even when they stayed in the holiday cottage it was more like our house was their house.

I try to relax and tell myself it’s only a week and that it’s good for my husband and children but I still go out of my mind and it always explodes into huge arguments. I really don’t know what to do this time to avoid it but I’m so scared because of having a new baby and what it will be like this time around.

I got this double bed from Argos for £220, and the mattress is dreadful. It’s supposed to be extra firm, but I find it very flimsy and you can feel every spring when lying on it.
I’ve seen more expensive mattresses for around £500, but I just haven’t got this kind of money.
Are memory foam mattresses good on cheap Argos slatted bedsteads? I managed to break a slat on mine, by kneeling on the mattress.

I just bought a new bedroom set with a new mattress, the mattress has this strange funky smell like chemical. Is the smell will go away by itself, or should i use something. any help?

So about 6 months ago, me and one of my best friends (I WILL CALL HIM ‘X’ BECAUSE I DONT WANT HIM TO FIND OUT) were having a chat and he suggested that we should start a hardcore band. I said yes, with the thought that it was just going to be a laugh and nothing would really come out of it.

He then told me that 3 of his (now both of ours) closest friends wanted to start a hardcore band and they should be in, and again I thought nothing of it.

So about a month went past, and we did nothing band wise, and then X started to say that we needed to write some songs and get it all together. So I started to write some riffs which then evolved into crappy songs. I’m not very good at writing hardcore because I don’t really enjoy playing or listening to it and so the riffs were all really bad. We started to home record them on my macbook and even got our first song professionally mastered.

So about 2 months after we got our first song back, we started practicing in our drummer’s garage. X and our drummer spent about 3 days cleaning out and soundproofing the garage with old mattresses for us to practice in. Then to make things even worse, X had a load of birthday money that he was planning on saving, but instead he decided to spend it on a £150 head and a £500 orange cab. He said that the band is going to be what he spends his money on because he wants us to get big.

Now around this time, I wanted to get a guitar and so I bought one, but I bought it for myself, not just because of the band. I also bought a Marshal head for the same reason, but they think it’s because of the band.

We started practicing once a week,and also spending a lot of time home recording, and I am not into it at all! I hate the music, the sound, just everything about it. We have also had a photoshoot done, and gigs possibly booked from about April next year.

I wasn’t too keen from the start, firstly because I am not really into hardcore, and secondly, bass is my first instrument and he wanted me to play guitar in this band, but I want to play bass in a band.
It is also very frustrating because another one of my good friends is into the exact same music as me, and wants to start a post-punk band with me, which is my favourite genre of music. He is an amazing guitarist and I really want to start a band with him, and I want to dedicate all my time to it, but I can’t because of the hardcore band. The thing that makes it worse is the fact that I write all of the music and so they rely on me to keep the band going. They even told me that they did nothing on a day that I couldn’t go to practice. X cannot write music, he is one of those people that can play guitar pretty well, but just cannot write anything. Therefore I feel like if I quit, I have screwed up the whole band for the other members, especially as they are so dedicated to it.
I am also in the same class at college as X and our bassist, and they are really good friends of mine now, as well as the rest of the band, we always go out and stuff and they are becoming like best friends to me.

X is also a music promoter where we live, and he books a lot of big hardcore bands to play here. He has a lot of connections and he is saying that we have been offered quite a few gigs with big bands all over the place in england.

I don’t know what to do, because I just hate the music and I’m just not enjoying it one bit, how ever, we are all really close friends.
I feel bad because X spent almost £700 on equipment and we’ve spent loads of time writing and recording together, not to mention getting high together and just having a such a good laugh. I know that if I quit, I have screwed the band up completely, but my heart’s not in it.

How should I tell them I want to quit before it starts getting too serious?
I need to know how to tell them without loosing friends, because I still want to be close mates with all of them. I know that we have a good chance of gigging round the country and I want that experience (but I had it in my old band that I was in for 3 years) however I would rather play music I like instead of music that wil justl make other people happy
I need to know how to tell them without loosing friends, because I still want to be close mates with all of them. I don’t want it to be awkward at college if I quit.
I know that we have a good chance of gigging round the country and I want that experience however, I had it in my old band that I was in for 3 years

I got really drunk last night woke up to find my bed is wet, all the sheets are in wash and the mattress is airing in my room, it is still damp so what should i do?

Ok so at the moment i am 14, and this may (My DOB – Date Of Birth is 31st May) So i wanted to move out when im 16 and i already know its going to be tough with my mother never the less that’s what the parents are there for right? Ha ha, anyhow i’m pretty serious about this because i’ve heard and seen teenager’s at 16 who live at home and pretty much i do not want that to be me, I do not think it’s silly or cheap because they are living at home with their parents, i do admit if they haven’t settled out a plan like i have then it probably is wise to stay at home until condition’s are better to move out, I do not know why i do not want that to be me, So i have got a friend from New Zealand and i live in the United Kingdom In England now i was hoping to live in a flat because if i live in a house chances are i might have to move back Due to bills that i will not have any money for, So here’s the plan between me and my friend My mother and father doesn’t know about this i kind of want it to be a surprise. My friend would bring his xbox games clothes and some other things he cannot live without i would imagine, While i’m bringing food,drinks,my xbox and games, and a tv that my sister gave me, a few cushions and a pillow and a quilt and a sheets (i mean big puffy cushions instead of mattress), and he insisted that we’d find a job, So i agreed about the job now here’s the awkward play, While i’m trying to get a job i’ve already got a Mini studio (I’m a rapper) so i got my own raps on this site etc etc i can make a few pounds off of there, now i do not know how i would get a sofa or anything else, but i kind of do imagine that i would at McDonald’s until i get a better job, saying that if i manage to sell nothing on sound click and i don’t get my payment from my manager until a week or month then im screwed pretty hard, So here’s what i will not have. 1: Laptop/Computer/Apple/Mac. 2: second TV, A proper bed. 3: wardrobes,curtains. 4:chairs,sofa. Now that’s all i will not have, It seems pretty bad SO! i’ve decided i will find a flat with: A inbuilt cooker,shower,toilet,front room and bedroom and a mini kitchen. So i now need help on finding what’s most important? And if any of you want to know why im so worried about this is because i want to have my own life i think i am capable of handling myself, I do understand some bills, I am aware people will do scams just to try and make your bills go high, i know i wont have a proper phone i know my internet And Electric wont be on, And i am prepared to take the chance However i believe if i can get the shifts that are available to me and i make the most of them maybe i can just nearly make it. So yeah what do you think about this? And most of all what job would you consider doing just to make a good start off?.

I have a friend that has around 0 to spend on a bed, but all I can find for her that’s cheap is a futon mattress. Would that be comfortable enough to sleep on in the long run?

I had a toddler bed given to me, but there is nothing on the bottom to support the mattress. It is the size that holds a crib mattress. Does anyone know what comes with it standard? It looks like Little Tykes doesn’t carry this one anymore.

I hate laying on the wires when I use the electric mattress pad. My husband says to just put our regular mattress pad over the top of it, but that seems to me like it would be a fire hazard.
It is an electric mattress pad, not an electric blanket.

Seriously. Does Her Majesty, Queen Elisabeth II, live like a proverbial queen? Are her sheets changed daily? Is her entire mattress replaced every week? Does she get new towels every day? I don’t mean clean ones, I mean new ones! Does she dress herself or does she have staff to do it for her? Does she ever wear the same article of clothing twice? Does she have a food taster to make sure no one is trying to poison her? Just wondering…
My apologies to all those I may have offended by referring to Liz II as merely the Queen of England. Not being a Royal-watcher myself, I was oblivious to this distinction. Thanks to all of you who provided purely insightful answers. If I could choose more than one best answer, I would.

Hi everyone,
I’ve never had a problem with mold/mildew before, but recently, when turning my mattress over to clean it, I noticed specks of mold on it. I was horrified, I’ve never had a mould problem anywhere in the house before…I think it happened as I keep my bedroom like a sauna, now it’s colder and always have the heating on and rarely open the windows as it’s too cold.
They are very small specks, some you can’t even see unless you get right up close (which I did whilst vaccuming). There is no damp smell, and I’ve had no ill effects. I’d say about, 5% of the mattress is affected, if that. If I keep the mattress I plan on steam cleaning it, applying antimicrobial mattress cleaner then encasing the mattress in an anti allergen protector. Will that be enough? Or is it too dangerous to keep it?
What can mould do…is it life threatening?
Secondly, I have another bed in my guest room that I never really use, and hadn’t been in there in ages. When I saw what happened to my bed I went to check on the other one and it was the same but worse….the bed base had mildew, the mattress was a little more mouldy (still only, I’d say 10% or less) and this time I could smell a ‘damp’ smell as soon as I walked in. I’m not too bothered about throwing that bed out as it’s not used that much but if I can save it I’d like to, as it’s not that old and cost a small fortune.
Last thing, if the mattresses can be saved, how do I go about it…..I’ve read sunlight and airing does the trick but I’m in England and it’s winter so there’s not much chance that’ll happen. Any advice is appreciated, thanks for reading.
Just thought I’d add….I’ve figured out why the first one isn’t so bad and doesn’t smell of mould…!I noticed the spots were sparse and only in certain areas, and only at the surface….those areas are where I spray my pillow mist spray (a lot of it) before I go to sleep. I’d spray it soak it then sleep so it wouldn’t get chance to dry, and I’d also vigorously spray one side of the mattress with febreeze after cleaning it and before turning it, to keep it fresh. The febreeze drops when turned would not dry and could have caused the problem…..anyone think that theory makes sense?

He never attacks the bed with the sheets on it, but as soon as i take them off to change the bedding he starts attacking & going crazy on the mattress! And once the new sheets are on he stops. It’s really quite funny, he does sleep on my bed so I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

I have not had good luck with regular down comforters not bunching up etc. inside my coverlet, but I know that featherbed mattress toppers keep their shape much longer, so I was just wondering if it would be okay to stuff my duvet cover with a featherbed instead of the down comforter.

My queen size mattress has a large dent along my fiancee’s side and he has been having a lot of trouble sleeping lately because it is so uncomfortable. my side is slanted towards the crevace, which is also uncomfortable sometimes but not as bad as his side. What should we do? the house is a furnished rental and we can’t buy a new mattress. but we also can’t continue to sleep (or at least try to sleep) like this. is there something we can put under our mattress pad to fill out the dent? or other ideas?
I really can’t (no money or space to keep it after this year) buy a new mattress. please if that’s all you’re going to tell me don’t bother. I don’t neccessarily want to "fix" it, just something that will make it a bit more comfortable to sleep on.

I lent an air mattress to a friend only to find out that he has cockroaches in his apartment (a lot of them). How do I sanitize this before bringing it back in my home? Should I toss it? I don’t want to be paranoid, but I don’t want an infestation. Help!

I bought a name brand mattress about 8 months ago from LS Ayres and I’m finding that it sags a little bit. When I look at the foot of the bed I can see that it is not even across the top and dips in the middle. The bed is on a flat wood platform frame (instead of box springs).

Additionally, the actual mattress is 18 inches thick including a very thick pillowtop.

Should I be concerned with taking this mattress back? I know I have a warranty, but is this normal or am I freaking out about something small?

My cat peed on my bed, and it soaked right through the mattress. I washed my sheets and comforter in OxiClean and then I took the cover off my mattress and washed that in OxiClean but the pee is soaked into the foam and I can still smell it. I don’t want him doing it again so I really want to get rid of it. Any tips?

I am limited on money and space. Please give me some tips. I got this for free from somebody. Also, does anybody know how to take apart a box spring mattress??
Where do i get a shop vac?

I’ve had my mattress and boxspring, same one for almost 7 years. Is it time to buy a new set?

I finally got a new mattress, so I want to get rid of my old one. It’s too heavy to carry downstairs, and I don’t even think it will fit through the door, so I was going to just burn it right in the room. How do I prevent the whole house from burning down? I set it in the middle of the room away from the walls, and covered the walls with foil. Should this be good enough?

I tried to clean a pee stain out of a mattress and realized that whether it’s water or pee or whatever, when it dries I can still see the outline of where it was wet. How do I properly clean the mattress without leaving lines from where the mattress was wet and then dried? I have no trouble removing the stain and the odor. But, now it’s slightly yellow where it was wet. Would a carpet steam cleaner do the job? After cleaning, it looks worse now than when I started.

Im 14 and i know Straight away you think oh its just teenage problems… but this is not my mums deaf but recently she has been terrible with her attitude towards me she has been shouting at me when my friends hear (amy) last saturday amy slept over and the dog weed on my bed (me and amy put the mattresses on the floor) and i told my mum and she shouted at me saying it was my fault and swearing at me, afterwards amy said she wanted to go home it was that bad, every day my mum shouts at me for my bed room being untidy but it honestly wasn’t i have always kept my bedroom clean because she shouts at me, on saturday she made me cry shes always calling me pathetic,telling me to go live with my dad (i cant because he left me and my mum when i was a baby he lives in england, i saw him this summer but he didn’t know it was me i want to know him but its difficult) she calls me a bitch and that nobody wants me, im getting miserable, when i go out with my friends she moans my friends doesn’t even want to come over sometimes because of my mum im seriously unhappy i live in scotland but all my family live in england and i don’t want to stay here any more, im getting detentions and punishments at school so i can stay at school longer so i don’t have to go home im sick of it and honestly im getting more in trouble at school and i like it because it feels like my teachers care about me. i don’t know what to do now.

I mean the memory foam mattress of 10 inches thick, not just a topper of 2 inches. Costco is selling the twin size at about 0, so it is definitely more expensive than most of the regular twin mattress.

We had a queen memory foam mattress for 5 years and we like it. Just not sure whether it is good for my kids, age 2 and 4.