Well, after all that, it appears we're going to be using a knit terry
velour. No give in the SB stuff, which would negate a large portion of the
benefit of the bed.
FWIW, having now slept aboard for about 3 weeks from getting the beds, I can
say it's totally awesome. My shoulder, which has yet another operation in
front of it, is entirely without pain when I get up, as contrasted with
anything else I've slept on since my operation.
I got mine, custom cut (used kraft paper base pattern, with appropriate hull
curvature outboard notations), from foamproducts.net, in Tarpon Springs, FL.
They include shipping anywhere in the US in their prices for their beds, and
include a pillow, to boot.
L8R
Skip, home briefly, and "suffering" on my previously perfect-for-my-back bed
:{))
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Doug
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"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in message
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Skip & Group:
(bedding covers discussion):
It does look like a mini awning stripe material. But you have to
understand
how we use it. Our sleeping cushions are rarely exposed to the naked
eye
just like your bed at home. They are made up with a fitted mattress pad
and fitted sheets and topped off with a top sheet (in summer) or a
duvet
containing a down comforter (in cool weather). It is synthetic so it
does
not mildew and is pretty soft. It costs less than a third per yard
than
Sunbrella and is 63" wide so goes farther as well.
Interesting. My guy claims his is similar in price (and the roll he's
got
looks like 63, but I didn't measure it). Point taken on visibility.
There's gotta be some same-material/different-pattern alternative,
though!
Any suggestions?
Sounds like you need a new guy Our experience is that the synthetic
ticking is always the blue/white strip kind of thing. Others are available
with little butterflys etc but are 100% cotton. We can get you some if
you decide to go that way.
As to us, we're planning on making custom sheets from flat stock (can't
find
any roll stock of 400TPI),
We buy regular flat sheets at the store and fabricate them.
and sleeping with a loose lightweight cover or if
it proves too cool, a down comforter/duvet-covered over a loose sheet.
The
Vee will be easier, as there's a place to tuck to, but our cabin's
configuration won't work for that. We thought a bit about a
bed-in-a-bag
solution, but figured that the less barrier to our body heat the better
for
a visco-elastic bed.
Just checked with the Goddess Of Canvas and I was mistaken. The
memory foam matress we did was covered with a Jersey Knit material
It was a synthetic (acrylic she thinks) So it does not mildew.
Do you have a source? Or, are you saying the mattress arrived with the
manufacturer's cover, and you put something else over it?
Jersey Knit can be bought at any fabric store. The matress we did came
with a cover but was never installed. The customer provided the Jersey
Knit which they bought at JoAnn Fabrics or some such place.
As to Gore-Tex, it's not cushions, it's mattresses. What attracted
us
was
the thought that a splash (sorta inevitable from time to time in a
sea
state) would not go through, but that body moisture and other natural
humidity would pass readily, keeping the foam fresh.
We have no direct expreience with this approach. The G-Of-C doesn't
think you would be happy with the result though.
Turns out to be a moot point (see below)...
For our interior seating, we'd expect to do standard upholstery
material,
whether Sunbrella interior or other. The attractiveness to SB is the
stain
and water resistance (see above).
The upolstery material we use is stain and water resistant and
available
in
hundreds of styles. We've had ours for 5 years and have no stains yet.
Only
blemish is when a guest broke a bottle of clear fingernail polish and
it
spilled
on one of the cushions.
Hm. I'd thought that you were the source who twigged me to memory-file
the
Sunbrella interior stuff. What do you use?
I think I may have answered some questions about interior Sunbrella, but
I can't recall ever actually using any for a customer. For upolstery
material contact Douglass Industries in Egg Harbor, NJ. They have a huge
selection of upolstery fabric.
moisture (well, liquid) barrier. In any event, GT sells only to
manufacturers, so we're unlikely to make our covers from that, any
way.
That was a comment from the G-Of-C. She was wondering where you
would get some. We are manufacturers but have never had any use for it.
Not sure if they would sell in the small quantities we might use
anyway.
We use GoreTex thread on a regular basis but that's a different
situation.
Indeed. We gave up on finding any - and also on the concept, as 1) the
manufacturer of the "real thing" quit using it (perhaps due to expense,
but
at least nominally because of performance issues) and 2) the stuff is so
ungodly expensive that 1) above clinched it.
L8R
Skip and Lydia
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Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain