Mattress sizes!!! Any Help?
 

I have just built the two single beds we brought over from the UK for my two sons who are visiting this summer, we did not bring the mattresses as we though we would get new ones over here.

But can I find a mattress to fit!!? There are single beds and I just need a 3ft by 6ft mattress but can't find any that size, nearest I have found is a 37 and 3/8" from Ikea but that will be over the sides of the beds.

Anyone offer any advice or help? Don't want to pay for custom made. Just wish we had bought them in UK before leaving.

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Buy new beds.

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:thumbup:

All US beds and bedding are different sizes. We are ditching our bed here and buying a new one there - easier than shipping our current one then having to buy fresh bedding ever time we are back in the UK as we cannot buy it there.

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If that's your biggest worry you're doing all right :lol:

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You can get custom made matresses from The Original Mattress Company, and making custom mattresses for caravans, boats, cots, etc. is a significant part of their business so they are not outrageously expensive. We had them make a sprung seat pad (mattress) for our fireplace raised hearth, so it can be used as a low seat by children (when the fire isn't bejng used!)

Mrs P and I have an OMC mattress on our bed. It is reasonably comfortable and supportive, though not as comfortable as the previous mattress we bought, but then the OMC mattress was only about a third the price! :)

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A bit of internet research would have sorted that out for you before you moved.. Remember everything is bigger in the US..

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Apart from pints, quarts, and gallons! ..... And US tons are most definitely short. :whistle:

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You can get metal bed frames from Target or the like, incl online, for quite reasonable prices.

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So then the OP will have his British beds, and some American metal bed frames, but still no mattresses. :rolleyes:

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She said she can't find American mattresses to fit her British beds. I'm suggesting it might be cheaper to buy cheap bedframes and OTS mattresses than getting custom mattresses made.

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He, please RPS!

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Maybe rpjs didn't see that little blue male symbol next to your name.. or doesn't know what it means.. :D

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This might be what you are looking for.

http://www.finewebstores.com/Cot-Mattress-_p_66616.html

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I'll just blame Steve Jobs for the size of my phone screen shall I?

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Huh... I've never noticed those symbols either.

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Call your Mother and have her send the mattresses over, that she is keeping in the attic in case you return with your tail between your legs.

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I think the biggest mistake you can make when moving to the US or Canada is to not bring your bed with you. I always think the quality of beds in N America is appalling compared to Europe, thank God for Ikea is all I can say (who somehow seem to be able to make decent mattresses in Mexico).

To move abroad and then not be able to sleep is a pretty good definition of torture.

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If you only need them for visiting guests, have you considered buying air mattresses, the type often used for camping? When I last moved in the UK I decided to replace the mattress on my ikea bed (5ft6inch wide) for about a week after I first moved in I was using a double air mattress on my bed. Ok it wasn't as comfortable as my memory foam mattress but did the job in the meantime. I still use the air mattress from time to time for visitors and while camping.

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I disagree, though good quality mattresses in the US are very expensive. We bought a Stearns & Foster mattress when we came over and it is great and much better than our British king sized bed, which we still have. Unfortunately now Stearns & Foster only make that strange American abomination, the "pillow top" mattress, so we can't buy a replacement of the same brand. :(

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We have a superb Slumberland mattress here, but given I had major back use issues for a week after getting the bugger upstairs, there's a lot to be said for leaving it....

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Young guests. Without back problems.

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Took me nine attempts on one occasion: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=683397

Haven't actually tried Stearns & Foster, it was next on my list at Sleep Country but I gave up and went to Ikea.

I think one key point that people often miss is that beds are hard to move so they tend to be made in a plant not that far away, so a Simmons or Serta etc. mattress in one part of the country is a very different thing to what it might be somewhere else.

The big problem is the use of polyester, you've got to be mental to put polyester in a mattress, at least on any part of it you will be lying on.

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I assumed when the OP stated his sons were visiting that they weren't elderly visitors. It's a short fix, and as you say, more suited to the younger guest.