Foam

I have a queen size bed, and i accidentally bought a king size memory foam topper. It is 4 inches thick. Once I got it out of the box and realized it was the wrong size, we couldn’t get it back in to send it back. So we need to trim it down. What would be the best way to cut it?

Either a large pair of sissors or an electric kitchen knife. Probably the second is the best unless you happen to have a really big pair of sissors.

I am planning a cross-country move, and have a 14” think queen sized memory foam mattress. When it was shipped to me it came vacuum sealed and rolled up like a rug I don’t need it to be as small as it was when it came, but I need a few more inches to fit in my SUV. I’m open to all suggestions- not just vacuum packing. Any ideas??

If you have the plastic that it was shipped in, you can use a shop vac and just suck the air out. That is the best way to make it smaller for transportation.

I have. It was raining really hard one Saturday night…AND…my date pulled into my driveway and blew his car horn. He wouldn’t even get out of his car with an umbrella for me. I closed my front door. He went and found a pay-phone and called me to see why I was trippin’. All of this happened when I was a much younger woman…long before the days of the cell-phone. At any rate, the cussin’ he got that night was my legendary best!

o yea, every now and again you gotta do that. #$%^&&***&^%$()&!!!

in one of my fishing boat I want to rebuilt a cold room. to make a long story short I had to remove the bottom on my cold room, back to the steel of the hull, frames etc in order to proceed with some repairs.
Now it is time to rebuilt the whole thing but where I live I cannot find one contractor who spray polyurethane foam High density..
My idea is to use the small block of the foam I have removed in the first place , compact them in the bottom of the boat and then pour a very liquid cement in order to have a sort of binding agent. It will be very fast and very cheap to do so.
the question is : will it be efficient as far as insulation is concerned?
Polyurethane is a good insulation agent; what about polyurethane mixed with cement; will it retain some insulation properties?

please comment and give it your best shot.. thanks

Your idea would work, However the cement may chip up/break apart. What about getting some foam sheets 1" thick and build it up to the thickness you need and use 5200 marine adhesive to glue them together. Then mix some resin with matting and/or cloth for the finished fiberglas floor.
The foam I am talking about is the cream colored with a foil sheet on the out side. We built bait and fish boxes out of them then fiberglas them up nice and lite yet strong..

first of all try peeling as much of the padding as you can off by hand. I would be cautious of using chemicals on your floor, but depending on how well it is sealed, you could use everyday houshold cleaners to try to loosen the adhesive on the padding… if the floor has a good coat of laquer or polyurethane on it. i’m not really sure the circumstances, but just be careful and take your time. if the floor is not finished at all then I would just scrape it off, and then sand the wood with a fine grit (150-200) and then finish the floor. try not to get bare wood wet at all. if you do, again just sand it and it should be fine.

I have two.. One is made from polyurethane(sp) foam, the other is made out of that and polyester. The one that is made out of the foam and polyester says to machine wash cold and then "dip dry". What does "dip dry" mean? And should I wash the one that is 100% polyurethane foam the same way(it doesn’t have instructions on it)?
Woops. Haha, I misread it. It says "drip dry".

Drip dry is like hanging on a clothesline or from the shower rod. I would try a carpet cleaner for the polyurethane car seat pad. I know a couple of times I used the car shampooer at the car wash.

I know that ballistic foam is used on aircraft wings, but I was wondering where can it be purchased either in a tube or container of some kind where it is not hard already?

I am not sure if ballistic foam is the same as the one used to seal gaps in conduits etc. which is available in any hardware shops , building material supplies. It comes usually in tubes in liquid form , when poured in gaps or any container , it expands and solidifies in few hours taking the shape of the container.However these are not certified to be used in any aircrafts. If are planning to use them in some aircraft them best bet is check aircraft part supplies.

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I have a queen size bed, and i accidentally bought a king size memory foam topper. It is 4 inches thick. Once I got it out of the box and realized it was the wrong size, we couldn’t get it back in to send it back. So we need to trim it down. What would be the best way to cut it?

It is very easy to cut memory foam. All you need is a serrated bread knife. You just use a sawing action. I have made my own memory foam beds and mattresses by buying memory foam layers separately from wholesalers I found on the Internet. This saves me thousands of dollars.

I cannot sleep well on my memory foam mattress because every time I want to roll over, I wake myself up because of the effort required to do so (the quick sand effect is very strong). Has anyone else had a similar experience and/or has found something that may help? Thanks.

Might try flipping the mattress over and sleeping on the "support foam" side. Memory foam "conforms" . . latex or HD36 polyurethane has more "push back".
http://www.futonlife.com/foam/index.php3
http://www.foambymail.com/mattresses.html