Cleaning a memory foam mattress can be a herculean task. The bigger the mattress the harder and heavier it is to handle. After all, one of the original reasons for getting a memory foam mattress in the first place was to get a comfortable bed, right?
If you have a king size bed (which is both a luxurious blessing and a problem gift) then you will need someone else to help you to turn it and to clean it. Luckily, the cleaning part really only needs to be done if someone has been sick on it or has had an accident; or if you have bought a second hand memory foam mattress. It is always advisable to thoroughly clean any second hand mattress because all mattresses absorb dead skin cells from people's skin. It doesn't matter how clean people are, the dead skin cells come off our skin at night and become food for mites in our mattresses.
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If you have to actually use water on it to clean the mattress, and I recommend that you do this in warm to hot weather and in your back yard. I would also not advise placing the mattress on the ground to wash it simply because it gets too heavy to lift once it gets full of water. After all, it is still foam. You need to place it on something that is raised off the ground so the water and cleaning fluid can pour through and any excess can drain away.
Just think of a foam bath sponge and how that gets heavier once it has been soaked in water. Well, if you multiply that "x" number of times depending on the size of your mattress, you will start to get some idea of the weight that it becomes.
If I was to clean my memory foam mattress today, this is how I would do it:
I would get one of my stronger family members to help me carry the mattress out onto the veranda where the boards have half inch gaps between the timber. This is a good place to drain excess water away safely. I would get a plastic bucket of warm water and place 1 cup of apple cider vinegar in and stir it around so it was evenly mixed. Then I would get a spray bottle and a 'magic clothe' and start spraying and wiping on one corner and work my way across the top of the mattress spraying and wiping everything and working my way back to the other side so it was done in a zig-zag pattern.
Once the mattress was dampened through but not necessarily dripping through, I would leave it to dry in the sunshine. If it got excessively wet due to a lot of water needed to clean off soiled material, I would walk barefoot across it and try squeezing some of the excess water out of it with my feet.
The mattress needs to be left in the open air to dry. Once the mattress is just damp, I would start turning it on its sides to let the air circulate around it to dry it completely.
IMPORTANT: Do not ever use a damp mattress. Firstly, if you do you could get very ill with pneumonia. Secondly, the dampness will rot the foam and destroy the memory capability. Thirdly, the smell of mildew and dampness will become increasingly unpleasant and if anyone suffers from Asthma, the mould will cause enormous breathing problems. So if you have to wash your memory foam mattress, please make sure it is completely dry before returning it to the bed.
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