How to Buy a Waterbed

Waterbeds offer health benefits that conventional beds lack. They prevent body pains and back aches because of their ability to distribute weight through their flexibility. Buy a waterbed to improving the quality of sleep. Waterbeds reduce mites and dust and require little cleaning effort.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Waterbed
• Mattress
• Linens

Waterbed Types

1. Select a soft side bed with a foam edge surrounding the mattress for easy entry. The bed also looks like a conventional bed.

2. Choose the hard side model with wood fiberboard frame for support. The raised side rails make getting in and out a little harder than the other two types.

3. Consider the conversion model that includes a hard side frame around a soft side waterbed. Lower side rails make getting in and out easier.

Mattress Types

4. Buy the traditional free flow mattress if you want the waviest motion. This type moves between 10 to 20 seconds whenever you move and costs the least.

5. Choose a semi-motionless mattress that moves between 8 to 10 seconds with a mid-range price.

6. Pick the waveless type with 4 to 6 seconds of movement.

7. Consider the motionless mattress for hardly any movement due to special baffles that absorb water motion. These have a higher cost.

8. Decide on the dual system for stabilizing water movement between two people. One person's movement only slightly transfers motion to the other side of the bed.

Fill Types

9. Get a shallow fill of water for soft side only. Water fill level averages 4 inches of water in tubes.

10. Buy a mid-fill mattress containing a water depth of 5 to 6 inches.

11. Select the deep fill mattress with 7 to 8 inches of water.

Waterbed Sizes

12. Purchase a hard side waterbed in California King, Queen and Single sizes. These sizes differ from regular conventional bedding.

13. Acquire additional linen for hard side waterbeds because your old conventional linens have different sizes.

14. Obtain a soft side waterbed in Californian King, King, Queen, Full and Twin sizes with the same measurements as conventional bedding.

Tips & Warnings

• Waterbeds have several accessories including heating systems, lumbar support, motion control and drawers. Purchase a special conditioner and cleaner kit for maintenance.
• See if you need additional insurance coverage for an apartment or home from an agent in case of water damage. Even though waterbeds have come a long way in this area, some living situations require the additional insurance.

[WaterbedGuru]

on 10/2/2008 I felt that this is a well written article but would like to comment that the real importance of "wavelessness" is the more waveless the mattress, the more support the mattress has for your body. Waveless has to do with the number of layers in the enclosed fiber raft or the number and size of the "boxes" in a hydrolic mattress. More information may be found at http://www.awesomewaterbeds.com/How-to-Buy-a-Waterbed-Mattress.CFM if you would like a detailed discussion written by a guy with over 30 year's of experience.