On 24/02/2013 15:40, Arfa Daily wrote:
I'm not a morning person in the first place, and the day got off to a
really bad start when this morning, the missus awoke me from a deep
sleep to announce "Come on. Get up. We've got a job to do !" The job
turned out to be swapping the bed in one of our spare bedrooms for one
at the daughter's house. Now I have always loathed moving beds. The boxy
bases never quite fit in the back of an estate car both at once, and
mattresses are ridiculously heavy and have a mind of their own,
particularly on stairs where they are very floppy, and at tight
restrictions where they inexplicably become so stiff that they won't
bend. Also, for something so soft, they have a peculiar ability to
scratch any wall that they pass within a foot of ...

But this all aside, once again as I got involved with moving the hateful
thing, I had to wonder WTF they don't stitch handles onto the 'short'
sides of a mattress ? It's all very nice having them on the long sides
so that you can position the mattress on the base, but when it comes to
moving one from A to B, the only sensible way is with it upright, and
then there is nothing other than the piping around the edge of it, to
grab hold of.

I've been moving the bloody things for more than 40 years now, and I
don't recall ever having seen one with handles on the ends. Does anyone
know of a 'real' practical reason for this ?

Arfa

A lot of modern ones don't even have handles on the long sides!

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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk