On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 12:41:25 PM UTC-5, FrozenNorth wrote:
On 2016-12-13 11:59 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 11:24:32 AM UTC-5, KenK wrote:
My old mattress is well worn. I probably should buy a new one but hate to
think of the fuss and scheduling to remove and deliver a new mattress plus
tearing apart the bedding and putting it back. And the expense! Seems like
a mattress pad would give me most of the advantages and few of the
problems. What has been your experience? If so, how thick? Filled with
what? Any particularly good brands?

TIA


Nothing will upgrade an old mattress better than a new mattress. The technology has changed considerably and no "mattress pad" is going to
improve the worn springs and degraded padding in an old mattress.

That said, you might want to consider something like this:

https://www.overstock.com/Bedding-Ba...&se archidx=0


Bingo, when my wife and I visit my mother-in-law, she has downsized to
an apartment, we get the bed that pulls out of a couch, must be the most
uncomfortable thing ever invented. She got a three inch memory foam
pad, we put it over the existing mattress, much better.


I have never met a pull-out couch that I liked. The mattresses don't amount
to much more than a couple of blankets on top of some very sharp springs.

We recently stayed in a hotel with a king sized bed and a pull-out couch.
My daughter joined us for one night so I let SWMBO and her have the bed
and I took the couch. After 10 minutes I folded it back up and piled the
cushions, pillows and spare blankets on the floor. The mattress from the
couch was un-sleepable.

The only pull-out that comes close to being comfortable is this one:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....1XGkE-KK6L.jpg

My daughter used it in her apartment for a month while she waited for her
"furnished roommate" to move in. Yes, it's an inflatable couch.