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    Dandy folding camper curing damp under the mattress

    mike
    mike
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    Dandy folding camper curing damp under the mattress Empty Dandy folding camper curing damp under the mattress

    Post by mike Fri 24 Jun 2011, 2:33 pm

    The first thing to say is most folding campers, most trailer tents and even some caravans can suffer from this at times,its most directly related to the out side temperature,when the evenings cool down and the underneath of the bed boards get cold, the heat from your body reaches the top of the bed board, hot meeting cold so often leads to condensation.
    There may be a few ways to cure it but most will entail stopping your body heat reaching the bed board,we achieved this by using self inflating air beds on top of the mattress,if you dont know what these are you can forget the normal camping air bed that you need to inflate,these are normally about 50mm thick and have a foam filling,you do not inflate them opening the valves allows the foam to fill with air.When packing away open the valves roll the air out and close the valves,its that simple.
    Before using these we tried insulating under the mattress but found it just moved the condensation to the top of the insulation,if you are unlucky enough to get this you must prop the mattress up during the day to allow it to dry.
    mike
    mike
    Dandy Owner


    Posts : 5172
    Join date : 2011-06-12
    Age : 75
    Location : north east lincs

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    Post by mike Wed 03 Aug 2011, 5:26 pm

    One of our SIMs has got a hole in it and we cant find it so was going to buy another,now Nancy is always too warm in bed so we thought about her using a normal air bed which should keep her cooler and still stop her body heat getting through the mattress causing condensation.
    We saw argos where clearing these out,not as deep as a normal one so thought we would give it a try[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

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