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    Posted: 12 Dec 2014 at 3:53pm
I moved the electrical and plumbing out of the way and went from this



to that.

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There is room for larger drawers for the bottom 2.
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Posts: 9062 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Dec 2014 at 1:36pm
Pull them all the way out and look behind, usually the smaller drawers are only needed where plumbing gets in the way.
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We hate the table in our 179 too. It's too tall by 3 in. to make flat bed. Plus always in the way. When you figure it out please post.  Are your Kitchen drawers all half size? Ive looked in other 179 hood river editions and the only half drawer is the top one. Our dealer says there is no room for a full size drawer. I'm wondering if they just don't want to switch them out.
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That is the one thing that worries me about going with memory foam.  I sleep very hot.
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We just bought a memory foam topper from Costco and cut 6 inches off one end and put it on our 179 mattress. It's to die for comfy. We sleep with temp at 60. My hubby is a hot bod and I'm always cold.   We both sleep well with the memory foam. At home we have a temperpedic.
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I replaced the table side cushions foam in my 179 with firmer foam purchased from UFO, Chula Vista, Southern California. I bought a piece of 6" foam from the same place to fit the bed shape and then put whatever you call the factory mattress thingie on top of that. Sits a lot firmer and sleeps well.
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If its warm in the room it can get hot but for the most part both my wife and myself don't think heat is a problem with the memory foam mattresses we've slept on for years.

The firmness is what I like as I can get up out of bed without any back soreness where a softer mattress bothers me while sleeping and after I get out of bed!
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Posts: 1108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Dec 2014 at 3:42pm
Originally posted by Luv2Q

Originally posted by Podster

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

Funny...the DW and I are the same. I actually find the stock mattress acceptable but she hated it so we tried a foam topper which I hated and she loved it, so I sliced it in half.Thumbs Up
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Posts: 1807 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Dec 2014 at 12:52pm
Originally posted by Podster

Question: Do you (or anyone else, please chime in) find that s memory form mattress retains a considerable amount of heat, or no? 

I think so, you can feel the heat just reflecting back at you.  I get very hot with ours.
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