Bought a bed in a box from Dr. Evil Amazon. It’s been expanding for about a day now. How long before I can sleep on it? Do I really even have to wait? I remember hearing you have to let it expand all the way.
You have to sleep on it NOW or it will keep expanding and consume your town
It should be expanded by now. You should be good to sleep on it.
It’ll be fine. Nothing at all to worry about. If it hasn’t already expanded to the maximum, which it likely has, it’ll crack on with it in the morning when you get up.
I’d let it offgas for 24-72 hours at least. It smells awful. It’s probably something awful like VOCs, lol. Definitely keep a window open until it gets less stinky.
Yeah that was the worst part of my last mattress purchase, soo stinky
Leave it outside for 3 days to let the plastic smell dissipate. It will be expanded by then too.
I know leaving your mattress outside sounds like crazy talk, but off-gassing is a thing, folks. Personally I would opt for leaving the windows open as much as possible over cleaning off bird poop.
And it will have spiders
Yeah thinking back, when we got one here we didn’t literally take it outside, we left it in a room with the door closed and the windows open, so the fumes didn’t get into the rest of the house much. It stopped smelling after a few days.
Living in a city that’s a little difficult haha
AFAIK it’s done when it reaches the final height and isn’t bent any more (assuming it came vacuum shrinked and rolled up)
Did it come with instructions? We left ours for 24 hours and it was fine. YMMV
You should wait a few hours before putting sheets on it, so it can off gas, and not smell like chemicals.
You should be fine. When i had one i slept on it that night (it arrived in the morning)
Now it’s fine. It’ll just expand to it’s set size once you get off of it anyway
