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    Posted: 07 Dec 2014 at 11:13am
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Question: Do you (or anyone else, please chime in) find that s memory form mattress retains a considerable amount of heat, or no? 

Disclaimer:  The following are just my/our opinions.  Wife & I have pretty well concluded that every foam mattress is different.  Plus "sleeping hot" is at least as much about the person as it is the mattress.  I sleep hot.  Doesn't matter the fancy name of this or that foam, the number of fancy layers, so-called "cool gel", etc.  I'll still sleep hot, my wife won't.  For us, it's more about support.

As I've said in other posts, buying mattresses is no fun.  Unknown names, all bragging about their fancy-label foam being the one NASA developed, useless 25 year warranties (like I'm really going to send it back to some ebay vendor because it gets out of shape in 6 months).  It's a crapshoot!  We ended up buying a made-for-Dometic Serta.  So far, so good.  It's at least better than the original FR mattress.

TMI?  Sorry.. Kind of a hot-button topic for me.  Embarrassed
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Question: Do you (or anyone else, please chime in) find that a memory form mattress retains a considerable amount of heat, or no? 
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Congrats on your new 179! We picked up ours last month and are anxiously awaiting spring time for our test run. For now it's sitting beside the garage Ouch

You might want to do a search on ebay for short queen memory foam mattresses. We replaced the factory mattress already with a medium firm memory foam off of ebay for $239, including shipping, and while we haven't slept on it yet I can tell it will be comfortable just from laying on it. It's the third memory foam mattress we've bought off of ebay, from different sellers, and have been happy with the other two that we've been sleeping on for two to three years.

Here's an example of one there:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-COOL-Medium-Memory-Foam-Mattress-TWIN-FULL-QUEEN-RV-QUEEN-KING-CAL-KING-/161508768434?pt=Mattresses&var=&hash=item259aac3ab2
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Thanks Gar..maybe we ll cross paths some day in morro bay.
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I think it was Harry's. Next to Lemos.
They're pricy, fast and worth it. 
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Gar....we have the same soft cushion problem...did you have Harry's do the harder foam?
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We also had a problem with the cushions being too soft. Had them restuffed  with better foam at a local upholstery shop.
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Ours came from REI, although most sporting goods stores will have them.
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If you do a search for R-Pod mods on Pinterest there are a bunch and it explains what they used and how it was made.
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Posts: 1108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Nov 2014 at 3:42pm
Sounds good John. We have the wrap around dinette so we would like to cut the table as you have indicated. In our case, a post could be reinforced at the box point after beefing it up. It's difficult to explain, but we want it to swivel 360ยบ. 

We are looking to get it done before spring so no rush here. Pics and more detail to follow...don't forget to post yours...we all want to see it! Thumbs Up  
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