Recommendation for a Vacuum Bag for a Mattress

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  joka on 08/10/2024 - 12:40

  +1

  next post from op: "recommend me a vacuum cleaner with enough suction to reduce the volume of the matres in a vacuum bag".

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    koplik8 on 08/10/2024 - 12:42

    Haha I'll find a video on YouTube for that one!

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  JimmyF on 08/10/2024 - 13:49

  I've got a double mattress I want to put into a vacuum bag. Then I can fit it under my bed.

  I wasn't sure they are a 'thing' as what you have linked to is just a protective bag. But on googling, they are!

  So just buy one and give it a go! Assuming it is a foam mattress that doesn't have springs etc.

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    rumblytangara on 08/10/2024 - 16:27

    If this is supposed to crush down the mattress to fit into a smaller space, isn't this going to wreck the foam?

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      JimmyF on 08/10/2024 - 16:53

      +1

      isn't this going to wreck the foam?

      All the mattresses in a box come like that. The foam should be ok, not sure how it would go with springs.

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        rumblytangara on 08/10/2024 - 17:49

        I've read from at least one of the mattress in a box places that this should be considered a temporary thing, not sure how true it is.

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          JimmyF on 08/10/2024 - 18:44

          @rumblytangara: considering they Made in China, shipped by ship to Australia, and sit in a warehouse for months on end before being ordered, I'm sure they'll be ok.

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            rumblytangara on 08/10/2024 - 19:07

            @JimmyF: Can't remember the source, but it was along the lines of a handful of months.

            If someone is storing a mattress, it's quite possibly for years.

            Admittedly, the second round of compression will be nowhere near as strong without industrial machinery.