I'm a definite newbie and just buying a new Jayco 12 UDST. I am looking for suggestions regarding where folks get bed sheets for popup foam mattresses and if there are any types that work better that others. Bed sizes on Jayco are 70 x 80 and 60 x 80.
I also seem to remember that someone wrote in and suggested that they had wrapped their popup mattress in plastic so the foam mattress don't get wet in cases of a bad storm and need for a quick take down. Is this something widely done? And if so what do you use for a plastic liner? One or two sides?
We never used a plastic cover and had no desire to do so. As for sheets, we used our queen sheets from home and tolerated the extra material. It worked just fine. We did buy a eggcrate mattress to use on top of the factory mattress at Walmart to add some comfort and it made a big difference but the new popups probably are much better than ours (1993 model). Take time to read the forums for your type RV. You will see amny opinions; good, bad, and ugly. Use your own judgement. Good luck.
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2002 Keystone Hornet 32R TT w/ 1 slide
Wife: (Jane) Artsy person and Haiku Poet that loves to camp
Son: Junior at NCSU
RV Usage Pre-2006:unknown, 2006:60 nights, 2007:53 nights
We used regular queen size sheets with no problem. If they make special sheet sets I'm sure you would pay a special price. We also used water proof quilted matress covers comonly found at Walmart. They provide moisture protection and don't make you sweat.
We just used fitted bottom sheets from home. In your case, the larger bunk might take a king sized (our Coleman SanteFe did). We used the king on the bottom and a queen sized top sheet to reduce the amount of excess material. The best place I found in our area was Value City. They often have separate pieces at a decent price... some seconds (which were fine for camping), mismatches, etc.
Never used plastic on our bunks other than as extra protection when our kids were first potty trained. We'll probably be doing that with the granddaughter now!
Our ex-RV was a Viking PU. Was quite happy with it in the time.
The nice thing about the mattress, is they had top half cloth and bottom half vinyl with a 3 side zippers. Now talk about clever...
No need for protection and one time it was kool to have that because in a 3 days non stop rain in East Canada freezing in early June, we sprung a leak one night and the plywood got wet but the cushion got nothing. Threw the sheets in the dryer and voila! No hassle.
I would not cover the whole thing with plastic. Becaue the cushion has to breath and will make you sweat. If I were you I would invest in converting half of your original cushion covers and have them modify by an upholster with good zippers and lower half in good vinyl.
Egg crate we had and made a more comfortable arrangement.
Bed sheets, one queen and one double set. We bought the T-shirt type of material. Comfie, easy to wash.
Good luck!
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