same day pick up(260) price low - high price high - low ratings high - low items per page: | Mattress Toppers Make Good Mattresses Great Ever had one of those moments where you get out of bed, fresh from a decent night’s sleep and wonder what you can do to make your mattresses even better? We’ve got the answer for you—pop a nice mattress topper over for a world of difference! Sometimes we choose a mattress that seemingly ticks all the boxes in the comfort department, only to find out that there’s an area where it could be better. For example, an extra layer of plush padding can do wonders for the back! In contrast, adding a firmer pad on top of a slightly soft surface can give you the perfect amount of support. Eminently Comfortable Mattress Pads and Memory Foam Mattresses Why settle for a subpar bed experience? Enhance your bed with a varying assortment of pads, toppers, and special materials to upgrade your sleep. A plush mattress pad will have your body yearning for more time atop of it, while super-conforming memory foam will have you literally sinking into bed at the end of each day!
The options don’t stop there—consider handy mattress encasements to help reduce possible allergens, dust, and other nasty things! We carry mattress pads and toppers for a variety of mattress sizes including California King beds.With all of these choices available, you’ll be well on your way to having the ultimate bed and bath setup ever!One of the most asked questions Jennifer and I receive from readers deals with how we sleep in our Roadtrek Class B motorhome. Our answer is… great! But since we keep getting that question, I dug out this report we did some time back. The video was shot in the Roadtrek Etrek we just traded in. We use the same system in our new Roadtrek CS Adventurous XL, which we just picked up a couple months ago. Seriously, we both agree we sleep just as good in the Roadtrek than we do in our king-sized Sleep Number bed at home. And that has to do with that we sleep on and in while camping out in the Roadtrek. In this edition of How We Roll, we answer two reader questions about where we store our bedding.
We make the sofa up into a king sized bed at night and use a four inch Wamsutta Fresh and Cool mattress topper that we picked up last year at a Bed Bath & Beyond store while traveling through South Dakota. Jennifer shows how we store in in the overhead cabinet at the rear of the bed. It takes up every inch of space up there but it fits in just fine. On top of the topper, we use an RV Superbag. It’s a king sized bag with a summer and winter side and very comfortable sheets Velcroed inside. I show how we roll it up and put in in the armoire that we have installed in place of the seat that normally is behind the driver. Here’s a link to the RV Superbag video review Jennifer did. Yes, I know those bags are expensive. But we really like it, so much that we also invested in two individual RV Superbags. I use a single when I travel alone or bring a grandkid or buddy with me on a hunting or fishing trip. Got a questions you’d like us to answer? Click here to email us.
Click to see all of our Roadtreking RV videos!If you have bed bugs, many pest management professionals and entomologists recommend encasing your mattresses in high-quality encasements that are designed and tested to keep bed bugs in or out. If you do not yet have bed bugs, bed bug encasements may be a good preventive measure for keeping bed bugs out of your box springs and mattress. The use of bed bug encasements is not without controversy. We are aware of several highly respected UK bed bug experts (namely Richard Naylor of the University of Sheffield and David Cain of Bed-bugs.co.uk), who don’t recommend encasing mattresses. However, at this writing (8/2011), I can’t think of any North American PCOs or entomologists who generally recommend against bed bug encasements. The design of beds may play into this: keep in mind that UK beds tend not to have US-style box springs, and that box springs are notorious for harboring bed bugs. And British-style divan beds tend to have wheels attached, which makes them impossible to encase.
The argument for encasement use: The argument against bed bug encasements: Click the following link to read discussions tagged as being about “encasements” on our forums. My own sense gathered from the input of various experts is that the vulnerability of North American-style box springs means they should be securely encased. (As you’ll see below, some experts recommend this be done with mattress encasements, which may be better-designed in some cases than those marketed as box spring encasements.) And while using a mattress encasement does not prevent you from getting bed bugs in your home, if kept intact, it will keep them on the encasement surface and prevent bed bugs from harboring on and leaving fecal stains on the mattress itself — and the staining in particular is something many people would like to avoid, especially on a nice or newer mattress. If your pest management professional does recommend encasement use for your box springs and/or mattresses, make sure you are using ones which have been independently tested to keep bed bugs in or out (more on that below), make sure they are installed correctly and carefully, and inspect them regularly and carefully for tears.
On the other hand, if your pest management professional does not agree with the use of bed bug encasements, and they seem to know what they’re doing, then I would recommend you follow their protocols. You need to encase both the mattress and the box spring (if you have one). North American style box springs are even more vulnerable than most mattresses to harboring bed bugs. (Bedbugs can get “inside” a box springs, whereas they will only get inside a torn mattress.) You should obtain bed bug encasements before the pest control operator comes to treat your home, but I recommend not putting them on until treatment occurs; many PCOs will want to treat/remove bed bugs from your mattress before it is encased. Keep in mind that you need to be careful with any encasement to avoid tearing. If you have a bed frame with sharp edges, put tape or felt around them to avoid having them poke or rub against the encasement fabric. While encasements are available at all kinds of retailers (and from many pest control operators), they are not all alike.
A few years ago, Richard Cooper performed tests comparing six encasements which were being marketed for protection against bed bugs: Protect-A-Bed AllerZip with BugLock Zip, National Allergy Elegance, National Allergy Classic, Mattress Safe, CleanRest and Bed Wetting Direct. You can watch the videos and read more about the tests here. To summarize, in the first experiment, Cooper found that all six encasements kept first instar nymph bedbugs (the smallest life stage) from escaping through the zipper teeth of the encasement. In the second experiment, only three encasements (Protect-A-Bed, National Allergy Elegance, and Mattress Safe) kept first instar nymphs from escaping from a completely closed zipper end stop (the place where the zipper closes). National Allergy Classic, Bed Wetting Direct, and Clean Rest encasements failed this second test. And in the final experiment, only one of the bed bug encasements, Protect-A-Bed’s AllerZip, kept bed bugs from escaping even if the zipper was not completely closed.
This gives added protection, since even if the zipper is open by one to two teeth, bedbugs will be kept in. In fact, Cooper says in the third video (here) that the Protect-A-Bed bed bug encasements have to be opened 3.5 inches or more in order for bed bugs to escape. Otherwise, the BugLock (TM) design feature keeps bed bugs in. There have been some developments since those tests were conducted. MattressSafe encasements has a zipper mechanism which it did not seem to have during the tests described above. Mattress Safe has passed independent entomologists’ tests, which you can consult here. SafeRest Encasements are another newer product which was tested in Dec. 2010 by Snell Scientifics (who also conducted studies for Mattress Safe and BugStop). You can buy SafeRest encasements at Bed Bug Supply and view the testing data which is linked from there also. BugStop Elite encasements (sold in Canada by the Allergy Guy) have also passed independent entomologist’s tests (conducted by Snell Scientifics).
Protect-a-Bed: This article about bed bug encasements from the Wall Street Journal describes the tests the Protect-a-Bed AllerZip encasements were put through: It’s important to buy a good-quality cover, one with a zipper that stays in place and doesn’t have large gaps between the teeth, scientists say. The Protect-A-Bed, made by JAB Distributors Inc., of Northbrook, Ill., uses a zipper with tiny teeth and a “bug lock” system, a fabric channel with foam backing that keeps bugs inside even if the zipper pulls open slightly. In developing the Protect-A-Bed, JAB first tested fabric to make sure bugs couldn’t bite through (they couldn’t), then hired an independent lab to put starved, live bedbugs inside the zippered covers and tempt them with a human leg at regular intervals. For the lab test, JAB made three-foot-long test replicas of its encasements, with foam serving as “mattresses.” No bedbugs escaped during the monthlong test, and the company says the full-size versions it sells are made to the same standards as the models.