If you find it difficult to sleep well on conventional mattress beds, or maybe you just can’t find a mattress to suit you, it may be worth considering a waterbed. Waterbeds offer great support, are more hygienic than standard mattresses and can help you sleep more comfortably. They do, however, come with some inconveniences.
Waterbeds were initially used in hospitals to help prevent bed sores on bedridden patients. At the time these beds consisted of a single free flow bladder and were considered primarily as a health equipment. Their undoubted success within hospital environments led to success in domestic markets. People who couldn’t get a good nights sleep suddenly found the waterbed had changed the situation. These days, nearly seventy years on, you can now get all manner of waterbeds, from free flow to waveless, soft side to hard side and shallow fill to deep fill waterbeds.
Waterbeds are so successful for a number of reasons but the main reason is the full body optimum support they can provide which occurs without putting pressure on any joints or limbs. Other advantages of the waterbed include improvements on basic hygiene in relation to standard bed mattresses. Bed bugs, dust mites and the like simply have no habitat on a waterbed, there just is not enough material filling for them to settle in.
There are disadvantages to the waterbed, the principal drawback is the difficulty in moving the bed once filled with water. Selection of a soft side waterbed with a tube mattress can solve this problem but the design is not to everyone’s taste.
People often have fears with regard to waterbeds leaking or the weight of the waterbed, but these are generally unfounded. With regard to the weight of the waterbed, people generally don’t do the maths, but if they did they would find the average king-size waterbed exerts less weight per square foot than a human, so if the floor will hold you it’ll hold a waterbed. Leaks are uncommon in young waterbeds (less than 10 years old) but can become an issue as the vinyl ages. Small punctures can simply be patched, but torn seams are generally unrepairable.
The other issue with waterbeds are the number of accessories you could end up being sold and this can often be off putting, however a lot of these accessories, with the exception of waterbed conditioner, tend to be optional or come as standard. Pumps can be hired at places like U-haul rather than purchased to allow for moving the bed if the initial position is incorrect, and you’ll often buy waterbed mattresses with liners and heaters as a package.
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