Time To Change To A Waterbed Air Mattress?

by: Richard Merson

A waterbed air mattress can be a good replacement for an old waterbed mattress, or just a new choice for your bed. These air mattresses are specifically designed to be able to fit into water bed frames, making it very convenient to change your mattress from a water-filled one to an air-filled one. In particular, these air mattresses are sized to fit snugly into a hard side waterbed’s wooden frame.

Your waterbed can be rendered unusable in many ways. Ordinary wear and tear as you use it over the years can eventually cause defects in the mattress. Heaters have been known to malfunction and burn holes through mattress bladders.

These heaters, furthermore, need to be turned on all the time, especially in cold locations, to keep the water and the occupants warm. Touching the water bladder directly will feel really cold against your skin; try it if you must, but it will be unpleasant. Sheets help, but do not alleviate this problem completely.

Waterbeds are quite heavy when full. This means that they often cannot be used on higher floors, as their full weight may prove too much for the floor. There have also been incidents of overfilled beds breaking their bed frames under their weight. Waterbeds are generally unwieldy, apart from their weight, they usually take a long time to fill or drain. So transporting a water bed can be a major ordeal that can take half a day or more.

Older waterbeds are also quite unstable, exhibiting ripples and wave motion when you shift weight or move on top of them. While this may be pleasant for some people, it can make it hard to get to sleep if your bed moves whenever you do!

An air mattress, then, can be a good mattress replacement. For one thing, they do not need to be heated, so you will save on heating costs and the cost of a heater. They are also much lighter than waterbeds – they are filled with air, after all, instead of denser water. This means that they can be used even on higher floors, and can be easily transported, even when filled with air.

However it may be more convenient to drain the air mattress of air before moving it. Filling and draining an air mattress usually can be done in minutes, instead of the hours that water filled mattress may take, so it is not that much of a chore anymore. We can see therefore that setting up an air bed is much easier than setting up a water bed mattress.

Air beds are also much more stable than older free flow mattresses. Wave motion is almost nonexistent in air mattresses, as they are usually baffled (separated into chambers), and air exhibits much less significant rippling behavior than water.

It is quite easy to replace your hard side water bed with a new waterbed air mattress. Simply remove your old mattress and position your new air mattress, which will fit exactly into your old water bed frame. Using the accompanying air pump, you can fill up your air mattress quickly, and have a comfortable and much more convenient bed in a few minutes!