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From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Waterbed logistics
Message-ID: <269@denelcor.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Jan-84 01:08:38 EST
Article-I.D.: denelcor.269
Posted: Sat Jan 21 01:08:38 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Jan-84 01:03:31 EST
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Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, CO
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I have owned a water bed for 11 years (my wife needed support for her back
during her first pregnancy - that's when we got the first one) and in that
time we have owned three matresses. The second, which we replaced a month
ago, developed an inch long tear in a seam - at that time we learned the
value of the liner.

Our bed has a liner, but in addition we bought a liner which has a
zipper all the way around the top, with a matress cover which zips onto it.
(two birds with one stone - the liner stays up, the cover stays stretched
over the top).  When the rip was discovered, I patched it as best I could
and then bailed out the inside of the liner - and got about half a gallon
out. Thats all that was forced out the seam - the rest stayed in the
matress.

I guess the point is that with a *good* liner even major matress failure
is no real cause for alarm. Our cat has managed to penetrate the matress
on occasion; the resulting wet spot on the cover was easily repaired.
-- 
		Lyle McElhaney
		(hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc