We are very happy with ours.  We use it as a pillow top on our full mattress.  
Chic Lasser
Past Commodore

 I saw this thread about mattress toppers and I thought I’d join in.

Last summer I left the front hatch unlatched and water soaked our mattress topper and bedding.

We compounded our mistake by trying to dry the topper in a “way too small” dryer. It got burnt by the dryer heat and ended up in a dumpster.

This winter a new mattress topper was on the study, action list. Almost every mattress topper I looked at was a foam or foam/gel/memory foam mix. I just can't sleep on a foam topper, they seem to reflect all of my body heat back to me and I resisted the impulse to buy one, even though many of the toppers advertised themselves as “cool to sleep on”. Lies, I just know it!

Well while walking through a Joann Fabric store, my wife showed me a product that should do the job nicely.

The product is called “Nu-Foam” and here is a short u-tube video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JpxMYZ2Kfg

We built our own mattress topper by taking 3 folding tables and with masking tape, laid out our V berth mattress shape. Then we cut the Nu-Foam into 3 horizontal strips. All total we used just under 14 feet of the nu-foam material.

I used 3M spray adhesive and glued the 3 pieces together.

Next we took 2 old queen bed sheets and sewed a cover like a big pillow case. Finally we added some Velcro to close the cover.

We waited until we had coupon from Joanne Fabric for 60% off before we bought the Nu-Foam.

Total cost was under $67.00

This was an easy project to do and I expect it to be an excellent mattress topper.

Unfortunately I won't get it on the boat until mid to late May. I'll let you know how it is to sleep on.

Bill Matley  

 

We have had a tufted topper and believe it is worth every penny. We also had a fitted sheet made for it. It has been several years and we still comment about it.