So, when Tim woke up at 2:30 am Monday morning, the first thing he said was, "Why is the bed wet?" After a quick inspection, he discovered a small crack in the upper left hand corner/seam of the waterbed mattress. He dug around and found the trusty waterbed repair kit only to find that the glue had dried up (of course)...and could we REALLY trust that?
So, that began the saga of the mattress.
He had to go outside and run the water hose up to our second (really, third with the basement...) story bedroom window in the wee hours and start draining the bed. I bailed out after about 30 minutes and went to sleep in the guest room. He spent the next couple of hours draining the bed.
I found him at 7 am when I got up laying on the almost drained bed, on the three sofa cushions he had brought in and put on the flat mattress...poor guy...he didn't want to wake me...
The rest of the day consisted of lugging a still somewhat water-filled mattress down the stairs and outside, a trip to the waterbed store (how lucky are we that there is one literally five minutes away?), washing linens, cleaning, and filling the new $350 mattress with water for two hours. (You have to wonder how an empty piece of vinyl could cost that much...).
He had to miss a day of work to deal with the whole thing and it was untimely of course but we do indeed like our new mattress!
So, that began the saga of the mattress.
He had to go outside and run the water hose up to our second (really, third with the basement...) story bedroom window in the wee hours and start draining the bed. I bailed out after about 30 minutes and went to sleep in the guest room. He spent the next couple of hours draining the bed.
I found him at 7 am when I got up laying on the almost drained bed, on the three sofa cushions he had brought in and put on the flat mattress...poor guy...he didn't want to wake me...
The rest of the day consisted of lugging a still somewhat water-filled mattress down the stairs and outside, a trip to the waterbed store (how lucky are we that there is one literally five minutes away?), washing linens, cleaning, and filling the new $350 mattress with water for two hours. (You have to wonder how an empty piece of vinyl could cost that much...).
He had to miss a day of work to deal with the whole thing and it was untimely of course but we do indeed like our new mattress!
2 comments:
Having never slept on a waterbed, I'm curious how much better it is to go to all the trouble it seems to be?
It's totally worth it! Come over and jump on it sometime! All the kids that come love it! I sleep so much better on it than a regular mattress, I've gotten spoiled. It's a waveless so that makes a huge difference when picking one out.
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