Need to MOVE a MATTRESS?? Best Way to Package, Transport & Protect a Bed
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Are you moving? Learn how to move a mattress - the easiest way. I moved dozens of mattresses and so I can show you how. If you try it, leave a comment to let us know how it goes. See our links below for supplies needed. This is for foam and bed in a box mattresses only and most of the kinds you buy online. If your mattress has a steel frame it will not fold.
Supplies Featured in Video (affiliate links):
➡️ Heavy Duty Mattress bag: amzn.to/3p8A7Be (amzn.to/3DGHYde these are 4 mil)
➡️ Roll of mattress bags (25): amzn.to/3DDkEgG
➡️ Painter's Plastic: amzn.to/3DJh30A
➡️ Rope (paracord): amzn.to/3G2jNrY
➡️ Tie down straps: amzn.to/3yGL1SD
➡️ Packing tape with tape gun: amzn.to/30wM1uC
➡️ Our favorite mattress protector amzn.to/3E1lpn0
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You spent a lot of money on your mattress, now you need to protect it when you move. Don't let it get dirty (or you'll need our future video about how to clean a mattress!).
Even if you are just moving a bed upstairs, this method can help you carry a mattress! Even if you're moving a mattress alone.
We show you 2 methods to help you cover and carry your mattress: the mattress bag method and the painter's plastic method.
Most people try to move and transport a mattress flat which is unwieldy and very difficult. Others put the mattress in a truck or on top of a van uncovered, leaving it exposed to mud, dirt, rain and weather.
Not mentioned in the video - you can also use a reusable mattress bag - we recommend Britwrap - www.britwrap.com this will pay for itself if you move frequently or need to use it several times.
If you need to move a mattress upstairs or to move a mattress by yourself, this folding method can help. You can use a dolly. We can fit a king size mattress in the back of an SUV with the passenger seat all the way forward.
This works to move a Purple mattress (which is quite heavy). Works on an all foam mattress or a hybrid mattress (has springs) as long as it's not too thick. It's difficult to fold a mattress thicker than 12".
After you packed up your mattress, you may need to put it in or on the car or move it up stairs. These videos will show you how. Or you use one of these vacuum pack mattress bags. How to vacuum pack a mattress into A BIG ZIPLOCK bag! ua-cam.com/video/Z7tTNjjF0iw/v-deo.html
How to Fit a Mattress in an SUV ua-cam.com/video/YCbj1PWfIIA/v-deo.html
Move a Mattress Up Stairs By Yourself ua-cam.com/video/QY6Z-yqx-V4/v-deo.html
I have to say: I was super skeptical about this. But it totally worked! Even though I'm weak as noodles I was able to do it all by myself
Why were you skeptical you sexist faal...😆😆
@@chumadoshi6987 can a folded full mattress fit into a mini suv?
Weak as noodles lol
I’m getting ready to get a old heavier Q mattress out of a bedroom and up a full flight of stairs by myself ! Ugh.
This gave me hope!
You ladies are doing there lords work. Thank you 🙏🏾
I'm moving out for the first time and at the new place I'm living in the bedroom is essentially a remodeled basement, so the only way to access it was through a narrow staircase with a 90 degree turn.... I was losing hope on the mattress, but then I found this video! Thank you so much for this!
Seriously. This just CHANGED MY LIFE!
You're amazing.
Thank you guys so much. Yall just saved me, and saved me money. You two made my day from me having a bad week. This is the first bed I ever bought. Its a king memory foam bed. I dont have a car n not that much money. I thought i would have to get a truck to move my bed. Now I can call a friend and it can go in the suv. Love u guys. Thank u so much
Best comment!! Now you made our day!! Big hugs to you - thanks for taking the time to come back and tell us. Best of luck!
Put the mattress bag on, push the bed against the wall, put a ratchet under the bed on both sides. I folded the bed in half and while laying on it and I started winding up the ratchet. Super easy and fast. I fit the mattress in the back of my Kia Optima. No rope needed. Pushed it against a wall so it wouldn’t move.
Helpful advice
U girls rock I was gonna put it on top of my car but now I'm a Do it right
1:25 Method1. Mattress bag 3.5mil thickness. Other supplies needed...
2:05 Rope.
2:20 Tie Down Straps (Ratchet Straps). You can buy at a hardware store.
2:40 Mattress bag method. Put mattress into mattress bag first, then fold.
3:20 Link to mattress bag $5 in the description. Put mattress into mattress bag.
3:40 Fold mattress in half.
3:45 Slide rope under your folded mattress.
3:50 Taut line hitch knot. Regular half hitch, but loop it around one more time, then oop around to the top of the know and do one more half hitch. This type of knot allows you to tighten or loosen the rope around the mattress.
4:50 Rotate so the ends of the folded mattress are pointing upward. This allows you to use the rope itself as handles to carry the folded mattress.
5:20 Can use tie-down (ratchet straps) instead of the rope.
5:40 Method2 Use Painters Plastic. Get thicker one, at least 3.5mil thickness. Measuring tape. Scissors. Tape gun.
6:20 This method needs tie down (ratchet straps) also.
6:30 Need to unroll 7feet of plastic for a twin, 8ft for a Queen, 9ft for a King. Fold mattress in half. Tie rope on the inside of the plastic if you have tie downs for the outside. Tie rope on the outside of the plastic if you don't have a set of tie downs to act as handles on the outside. Wrap up the folded mattress in the plastic like you would wrap a present.
9:30 Method3: Use a clean tarp.
Thank You So Much!
You gals are AMAZING!! Thank you SO much. Even though it was hard, we used your method to move a King memory foam bed from one house to another. With minimal arguing. It made it SO much easier to get it where we needed it on top of the box springs. Thank you!!
We love hearing this, thanks so much for coming back to comment!
By far, the BEST VIDEO for this topic... been searching for months... now I will continue my project. Great job ladies👍
Love this video. Now I need to know how to fold and move my couch.
You sir are funny! 🤣
Let us know if you figure out how to do that!!
Haha!!!
Is there any possibility to fold my house?
Yes but it won't fit in your car and may not be usable after.
You saved my bacon! Just used your method to move our mattress to our new place.
Literally brought so much ease to something stressful. Thank you!!!
You're so welcome!
Thank you ladies, you have solved my dilemna!🤗
Thank you for the tip about using painter's visqueen, it works like a charm.
Very helpful. Thanks Ladies.
Excelente Consejo para proteger El Mattress. thank you.
THANK YOU!!!!!!! I have a move coming up and was sweating the mattress. I think I can do it now!!!!
Thank you very much. Making the move from WI to AZ soon and I have a purple mattress. Looking forward to an easier move now ☺️
I will be trying this out this week.
I love you ladies for showing this! I had a no show helper and now I know I’ll just do this method!
Happy to help!
Can't wait to try this
Great ideas thank you so much for sharing
My back loves this video!
Never would have thought to fold my mattress is half. Genius.
For quite a while now I've seen them send mattress in boxes now and still it never occurred to me that my very own mattress could be folded for easy transport.... haha
I used this method on my ikea mattress yesterday. Worked a charm. Had to use painters plastic and tape. But make sure you buy extra good packing tape! The stuff I bought was absolute trash and came apart.
Thanks for the video!! It was very clear and well done, and I especially appreciated the explanation of how to tie a taut line hitch: it worked like a charm :)
Happy to hear it helped you!
I am returning a foam mattress to a store. I think your method is the best! Thank you so very much for your help!
You're most welcome 😃
Why did you return a foam mattress to the store?
Super helpful! Thank you both!
You are wonderful!!!!! Thank you so much!
Thank you both so so much for making this video! My friend and I just used your advice from this video and the "How to Move a King Size Mattress Up Stairs By Yourself" video. For me, it was moving a Queen size mattress (15" thickness & 48lbs) from a first floor in one building, to a fifth floor in another. Using the method with the mattress bag, then folding in half, then using tie down straps to hold it together made the process SO EASY for us. From your other video, we then used the roll-up-the-stairs method up the five flights because my building has no elevator...yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhh...adventure?? Nonetheless, we were able to move it so fast! I just can't thank you enough for helping us make this excursion so much more doable than I could have imagined!
We love hearing that it helped you!! Yes, it's a bit of an adventure to move a mattress and up 5 flights but you did it. Superwoman!!!
I'm moving 4 floors up too in the same apartment building! Thanks for sharing your experience/success.
Brilliant idea this helped us so much thank you!!
I needed this when I packed my Ubox 🤦🏾. Loading I jad help but unloading it is just me and this video is a lifesaver.
Your comment and others from women who are moving stuff alone are the reason I made this video. I'm so happy to help!
Thanks for your help!
Greetings from Germany :)
Thank you!! Leslie...You rock girls....
This video was extremely helpful! Thank you!
That knot is genius!
Thank you,
Thank you so much , this video was very helpful!!!❤️❤️
This is so great and so helpful. Thanks for this. I'm gonna give this a try on my queen sized mattress.
You're welcome, happy it helped!
@@CleanFreakGermaphobe :-D
This is brilliant. I've been struggling like a chump my entire life.
Thank you. Happy to help😃
3 years later this is so helpful to many of us...thank you!
Your comment makes our day!
Life/Lower back savers!!!
Best video I watched in UA-cam! I’m moving tomorrow and this was very useful!
Well we love this comment! Happy it helped
So helpful, thank you!
you literally solved all my problems, thank you so much !!
You're welcome and thanks for commenting and letting us know it helped you.
Thanks for the tips :)
This method is much better than renting out a 9" van.
You're welcome. I've done this to fit a king size mattress in a small U-Haul too. It's even tough to fit a queen size in a regular van without folding it. Happy i helped!
@@CleanFreakGermaphobe the move was a success yesterday. Now I know how to move all mattresses with my SUV 😛😎
Thank you!
This was really helpful thank you.
Thank you so much, I am moving now and this saved me from having to buy new matress
Life saver thanks for this as I did not wanna do the whole vaccum thing
This is awesome !!
Thank you.
Thanks for this video its amazing
that was AWESOME! Thank you!
Sure thing, glad it helped you!
Excellent!
weell done solved my problem..
Thanks for the video!😊👍🏻
This is genius! Thank you, ladies!
Happy we could help👍
Thank you so much
Great! Thanks!!
That was very well thought out
Why thank you!
This is just girl 💥 power for me! Perfect thanks 😊
Yes, girl power!!!
Definitely helped me. Cheers👍😀
Thank you ladies. Just helped a strong man work smarter, not dumber.
this was amazing thank you!
Happy it was helpful!
They're more efficient than the average dude!👍🏿
Great video if just to learn how to tie the knot -- but the rest of the video was helpful and easy to understand. Thank You.
You're welcome. People have taught me knots and I couldn't get it. I was a girl scout but this part didn't stick. This knot works for me, ha ha ha! Happy it helped you, too!
You guys awesome
I love it
Great Job . I rarely hit the like button, But y'all are very good. Keep it up
This is so helpful
Thank you for letting us know
Very good, simple video. Knot tie is excellent.
Why thank you!
Ladies, you need more likes!
We agree, everyone click like on this video :)
Thank you! I have a move coming up and this never would have occurred to me.
Happy to help
Awesome show !!
Thanks so much for being here!
Thank you so much for posting this video. I will have to give this method a try. Any idea how much a typical full size spring mattress may weigh?
Thank you so much!!! I did this by myself with 2 ratchet straps!!!! Now I just need to fit it into my car
That's what we love to hear!!! Happy it helped you
Badass!!!
Thank youuu !!!
So happy you came back to let us know this helped you.
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Thank you so much!!!
Happy it helped!
thanks a lot
So happy you like our videos💜
Great Awesome demo. Thanks!!!. May I know was the mattress you demonstrated a FULL / Queen. About time for the unexpected move. your video lessened my stress of moving the mattress. Cant wait to try it. Thanks in advance.
great info i just subscribed
Thank you for your video. Without watching this there's no way we can buy and bring the mattress home ourselves. We would have to pay $150 extra online and $75 delivery. Just attracted a few eyeballs when we did it at the store but it saved us money 👍🏻
This video is still one of my favorites because of how this one and our mattress cleaning one have saved our viewers so much money, shame and stress! I’ve used them myself several times.
All this time I thought getting a mattress pad was enough. The fact that the footprint on the moving truck could have been smaller makes me want to take my mattress off the bed and try it now. By the way, this is my second video that I've watched. I've found you'll by the review on the andCollar review when you showed how the shirts didn't stain. Subscribed because of the usefulness.
I can appreciate your enthusiasm but it makes me laugh that you want to try it. I've got to do this to move a heavy latex mattress this weekend and I don't want to. Moving it upstairs and into the car. Without folding it, it would be so much more work.
To me, saying that you found out videos useful is one of the best compliments. Thank you for taking the time to tell us.
. . . Onesome, Thanks ! 👍
Thank you so so so much 😭😭😭
It looks like you really needed this!!
Well done girls
tks ladys
So helpful! Thanks so much for sharing! Getting ready to try this on a Queen mattress! 🍀🤞🏻Wish me luck! ♥ Jenny
Hey cheers, that's pretty much the method I'd planned to use myself but it's nice to get some confirmation that it works.
I seem to remember my mattress came rolled (obviously done by a machine), does the 'bend' in the middle of your version not damage the springs in the middle of the mattress, I would have thought that inner line of springs on the crease would be under extreme pressure, the rest hardly under any stress at all!
Knots advice especially useful.
This mattress seems to be very close to the variety I've got, basically the cheapest quality mattress I could find from Ikea.
You can do more of a taco fold so it's bowed and not tightly closed together at the end.
Since we can't rest it on all mattresses we can't guarantee it won't hurt it. But I did this many times to foam and spring mattresses.
Moms:Saving my ass since 1974. THANK YOU
This was very helpful! Do you have a link to the packing tape you used? Thanks!
Awesome! I was wondering about this as I have a mattress and I am moving in a month. My mattress is part of a sofa bed so naturally folds in half. I just hope i can find painters plastic or a mattress bag in Korea.
You can wrap it in a tarp or other waterproof type of material.
The free Harbor Freight tarps might work great for this. They are 5x7 and can be zip tied together at the grommet holes.
@@CleanFreakGermaphobe You make any purchase at Harbor Freight and you can get a free item if you have a coupon. They almost always have their 5x7 tarps as a free item. Here is the link to the coupon site:
www.hfqpdb.com/gallery/free
Harbor Freight in their sale Flyer often advertise a free coupon for a Tarp with any purchase.
I need to move a very expensive cali king Mattress just right down the street and I have a truck and I live in a townhouse so the stairs are kind and narrow with the ceiling anyway I'm not sure if I should fold this mattress if it'll damage it.
Hey, thank you for this video! Does this method work as well on full spring mattresses though?
It's impossible to know because there are so many kinds and materials. But if it came rolled up in a box then you should be fine folding a spring mattress for a short duration. I did it on thick spring mattresses for years and I stored them flat after moving them.
I love this idea!! Has anyone tried this on a hybrid? Memory foam and inner springs? I have a Linenspa full mattress that I’m moving in a few days and don’t want to use this method if it even *might* ruin my mattress. Thanks!!
A Linenspa is one of the lighter mattresses (what thickness?). If it has springs and is thicker you may not want to fold it.
Linenspa overall doesn't make the highest quality beds. They're more of an economy brand. And that means the springs may bend. I wouldn't.