This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment. OtherI am a Mattress Review Blogger - I've slept on Casper, Tuft & Needle, Leesa, & Just About Every Other Online Mattress. My name is Derek and I am a mattress reviewer and blogger. I have had the opportunity to sleep on and test almost every mattress available online including Casper, Tuft & Needle, Leesa, Yogabed, Saatva, Loom & Leaf, and others. Online mattresses have grown tremendously within the last year. For many they mean great cost savings and never having to set foot in a mattress store. I frequently receive questions about these mattresses, how they compare to each other, and which mattress is best. Happy to answer any questions. So ask me anything! You can find my blog and reviews here: Sleepopolis Update 7/24/15 - this AMA is long over, but I'm still around quite often. If you have any questions don't hesitate to drop a comment, PM, or contact me directly via my contact form. I'd be happy to answer your questions.
π Rendered by PID 112229 on app-791 at 2017-03-04 07:45:23.356252+00:00 running f3f09f7 country code: SG. Need to Buy a Mattress? Read This Before You DoWhy doesn't Angie's List rate attorneys?Landscaping: What do your neighbors do that drives you crazy?How much does it cost to be a member here?How much does it typically cost to paint a 2100 square foot house on the exterior? That's very difficult to answer without seeing the house. As one poster said, the prep is the most important part. On newer homes that don't have a lot of peeling paint, the prep can be very minimal even as low as a couple or a few hundred dollars for the prep labor. On a 100 year old home with 12 coats of peeling paint on it, then the prep costs can be very high and can easily exceed 50% of the job's labor cost.A 2100 sq ft two story home could easily cost $1000 just for the labor to prep for the paint job. That number could climb too. Throw in lots of caullking or window glazing, and you could be talking a couple or a few hundred dollars more for labor.
Painting that home with one coat of paint and a different color on the trim could run roughly $1000 or more just for labor. Add a second coat and that could cost close to another $1000 for labor. For paint, you may need 20 gallons of paint. You can pay from $30-$70 for a gallon of good quality exterior paint. The manufacturer of the paint should be specified in any painting contract. Otherwise, the contractor could bid at a Sherwin-Williams $60 per gallon paint and then paint the house with $35 Valspar and pocket the difference. $25 dollars per gallon times 20 gallons? That's a pretty penny too. That was the long answer to your question. The short answer is $2000 to $4000 and up, depending upon the amount of prep, the number of coats, the amount of trim, and the paint used. > beds, mattresses in Edmonton Get an alert with the newest ads for beds, mattresses in Edmonton.The requested URL /?p=759 was not found on this server.How to Buy Sheets to Fit a Pillow-Top Mattress
Published April 29, 2010 | Updated June 11, 2015 Everyone knows that pillow-top mattresses are designed for additional softness and comfort. Due to the padding, pillow-top mattresses have more depth than regular mattresses. The height of the padding varies, but generally, manufacturers make pillow-top mattresses in depths varying from 7 to 22 inches. Specially made deep-pocket sheets for pillow-top mattresses are available; however, it is important to know the depth of your mattress before purchasing sheets. Here's how to buy the best sheets to fit your pillow-top mattress. Shop Deep-Pocket Sheets ▸ Take MeasurementsPlace a piece of cardboard between the mattress and the box spring. Place a second piece of cardboard on top of the mattress. Measure the distance between the pieces of cardboard. This is the depth of your pillow-top mattress. Search for the SheetsSearch for sheets in the size of your pillow-top mattress. Sheet sizes are available in twin, twin-XL, full, queen, California king, and king.
It's important to get the sheets that are meant for your exact mattress; twin-XL mattresses are longer than twin mattresses, and California king mattresses are longer than king mattresses. Choose a Type of Fabric and Thread CountThe higher the thread count, the smoother the sheets will be, but that can come with a higher price tag. Bed sheets are available in a variety of fabrics, from cotton to satin. A current trend is microfiber sheets, which have the feel of high-thread-count sheets but at a lower price point. Shop for Deep-Pocket SheetsDeep-pocket sheets are meant for pillow-top mattresses and are available in three depths: 7 inches to 14 inches (standard), 15 inches (deep), and 16 inches to 22 inches (extra deep). Find Fitted SheetsFitted sheets have elastic on the sides that hold the sheets in place. They're available with elastic on all four sides, elastic on the four corners, or elastic on two sides. Sheets with elastic on all four sides fit pillow-top mattresses better.
Consider Other OptionsIf you are unable to find fitted sheets with the appropriate depth, consider using straps with sheets for regular mattresses. Straps on each of the four corners will keep the sheets in place. You can also use flat sheets that are one size larger than your pillow-top mattress and tuck the sides under the mattress. More Comfortable than any Sleeper sofa Installation complete - first impressions You need to buy this mattressWhere does an Ikea product go when it approaches the end of its useful life? Maybe Craigslist, or the annual yard sale, or—for the optimistic or guilt-ridden—a storage unit. Probably the worst option of all? But Steve Howard, the Scandinavian company’s chief sustainability officer, believes in a future where Ikea furniture never really dies at all. Instead, it gets reincarnated.“Can products have more than one life?” “Can you help extend the life the products you do have?” At a recent event, he said Westerners had (finally!) reached “peak stuff,” a bold statement for the world’s largest home-furnishing company, whose warehouses are bursting with an eye-popping array of stuff.
But Howard isn’t naive about Ikea’s contribution to overflowing landfills. The company’s furniture, which is trendy and cheap, is also seen by many customers as disposable.“It’s interesting that there’s a perception that products that are affordable are somehow also disposable,” Howard told Fast Company. “And we’ve got to challenge that. We think it’s our obligation as a business to make sure there are good channels available for people to resell products that are good and when products are actually finished, those are recycled as well.” He calls this concept the “circular store,” a place where customers repair or recycle their expired couches, mattresses, and rugs (something the company has been talking about since at least 2011), instead of throwing them out.One only has to look around at the various pilot projects happening at Ikea locations across the globe to get a sense of Howard’s vision for increased sustainability—though the company notes that it’s at the beginning of a “challenging” task of creating a closed-loop economy.
“It will change the way we select materials, work with our suppliers, make our products, and interact with customers,” its most recent sustainability report notes, which may be why these programs aren’t available yet in the U.S. Here’s what the Ikea of the future might look like: You’ll Get Paid For Your Used StuffHoward knows some people require an incentive to recycle their stuff, especially if that means trekking across town (or several towns over) to the closest Ikea location. In France and Belgium, Ikea’s “Second Life for Furniture” program lets customers bring old items, from Lack tables to Billy bookcases, into the store and exchange them for a store voucher. The items are then recycled or resold as-is, and the donor has a wallet full of Ikea money ready to spend on something new, so the cycle continues.Another pilot program, this one in the U.K., offers a “reverse vending machine” for compact fluorescent light bulbs. Insert a bulb, out pops a voucher for coffee.
But the company is also finding it doesn’t necessarily need to lure people with rewards. Many are already anxious about their waste, and the relief of knowing it’s not going to a landfill is reward enough. In Moscow, an Ikea that let shoppers drop off batteries for recycling was an astounding success. “In the space of a few months, we had six tons of batteries in there,” Howard says. “People had been storing batteries because they didn’t want to throw them away.”In Sweden, a pilot that promised to recycle any plastic furniture, even if it wasn’t purchased at Ikea, was also hugely successful. “People only brought back broken furniture,” Howard says. “They didn’t bring back stuff they were just bored with, which means people were holding onto broken plastic furniture because they didn’t know how to throw it away.”And in 20 markets, Ikea will now pick up old mattresses to be recycled. “We found out that meets a real need for people, because they worry about it,” Howard says.
“Maybe people don’t worry about the small stuff they put in the trash, but with big household items, it’s a concern. As soon as you create that option, letting people recycle stuff they couldn’t before, people are happy to have the option.”This year the company is assessing the results of its “Resource Chain Project,” and looking at ways returned Ikea products can be recycled into new, less expensive products. “We would basically be taking old bookshelves, old furniture, or an old door that’s finished its first life and sending it into new products,” Howard says. “You’ll have a kitchen that used to be a bookshelf, without seeing any visible difference in them. It’s not a revolution, but you have to actually fundamentally change your supply chain to do that.” Spare Parts Will Be 3-D PrintedPart of extending a product’s life is encouraging people to take good care of it, and repair it when it breaks rather than tossing it. “We’ve already started rolling out more material about how customers can look after products and repair products,” Howard says.
In the coming years, Ikea will launch initiatives that make it easier to access lost or broken parts. Perhaps your local store will have a Makerbot on site, or the company will dispatch blueprints for hinges and screws, or even an entire product, which customers could print from their home. “In the Ikea of the distant future, if it’s a small spare part, it could be printed nearby and dispatched quickly to you,” Howard says. “That’s not in the next three years, but easily within the next 10.”Hackers will also become pseudo product consultants, doling out new ideas for ways to repurpose Ikea furniture, which is something they do already, but Ikea isn’t necessarily embracing. “We should reach out to the hacker community to come up with their favorite ways of extending the life of Ikea products,” Howard says. In a sense, Ikea could become a sort of open-source retailer for physical home goods. Photo: Flickr user David Pettersson You’ll Get A New Outfit At IkeaMany of the most difficult things to recycle are textiles: rugs, linens, cushions, and pillow cases.
In Norway and the Netherlands, Ikea is in the very early stages of allowing customers to bring these products in and turn them into something else, like interesting flooring. “We’re still in the very early stages of that,” Howard says. (In Norwegian stores last year, Ikea collected more than 25 tons of used textiles.)But other textiles, like clothes, just need a new home. In Moscow, Ikea set up a clothing swap program (they called it “Cross Dressing,” which Howard admits might not be the most marketable name) in a huge shopping center. “People can bring the clothes they’re done with but are still good to wear and swap them,” he says. “In Russia, there are limited opportunities to recycle, so this has been hugely popular.”Furniture Will Evolve With YouHoward knows shoppers’ home-furnishing needs change over time. A new apartment requires a bigger couch, or a table that can be tucked away when not in use. He wants to see more modular furniture that can be transformed.