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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / June 2007Water, water everywhere . . . .
Okay, so I take back what I've previously said about the cats being so good on the waterbed, I didn't have to worry about leaks. I woke up, and heard something dripping. Fuzzy-eyed, I looked where it was coming from, and it was the waterbed! I checked around, and found a rather large leak, and there was a lot of standing water in the mattress, not to mention the carpet underneath was soaked in one area :-( Nothing like this has *ever* happened before. Now I get a landlord who bans waterbeds, and I have to eat my words. Sigh. Anyway, it was a mess -- soaked sheets and blankets, and as I looked, numerous holes. The biggest can't be the cats' fault -- it's on the side of the mattress, partway down and not accessible to cats. There are a couple of others in the same spot, and the rest are all little pinhole leaks on the top. Grrrrrrr. So I don't get the luxury of waking up slowly as I usually do, getting online, playing games, and reading RPCA. Instead, I am running around with towels and paper towels and waterbed glue, trying to soak up the water and stop the leaks. In the meanwhile, I am also washing the bedding. Somewhere about 5:00 am, I finally got all the leaks glued and fixed, all the water in the bed soaked up, the bedding done, and everything put back together again. This weekend there is going to be a *major* Claw Trimming Festival <evil grin>. Ginger-lyn ya always knew she was "all wet" ;-) > Okay, so I take back what I've previously said about the cats being so > good on the waterbed, I didn't have to worry about leaks. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > Ginger-lyn > ya always knew she was "all wet" ;-) It sounds like it is time for a new mattress. If it happened once, it will probably happen again. I'm curious -- do they still make water beds? MLB >> Okay, so I take back what I've previously said about the cats being >> so good on the waterbed, I didn't have to worry about leaks. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > will probably happen again. I'm curious -- do they still make > water beds? MLB They do. I have one. And mine is leaking but it has nothing to do with pets. The mattress is 10 years old and it sprung a leak way down on the side (it's a softside water bed - that is, it sits on a box spring on a frame and uses regular sheets, rather than sitting in one of those old wooden frames from the 70's LOL). Looks just like a regular bed and has baffles in the mattress to make it firm. Well, I couldn't lift the mattress to find the leak and patch it. I ordered another "bladder" (that's what they call the part filled with water). Unfortunately for me, when I moved into this apartment it never occurred to me how I'd drain the darn thing. In my last apartment I was on the 2nd floor and it was easy enough to drain out the upstairs window down to the ground with a garden hose. Now I'm on a level surface and the "pump" (which drains it) fills up the bathroom sink so fast it could overflow. I have a brand new bladder sitting here in a box but I'm afraid to try to drain the slowly leaking one. Why don't they make these fill/drain kits big enough to fit over a bathtub faucet? Jill >>> Okay, so I take back what I've previously said about the cats >>> being [quoted text clipped - 85 lines] > > Jill get the hose draining--hook it up, turn on the water til it's flowing into the bed, then quickly kink the hose and carry it to the bathtub or toilet or window, wherever. it should keep draining when you unkink it, it'll just take a LOT longer. >>>> Okay, so I take back what I've previously said about the cats >>>> being [quoted text clipped - 90 lines] > the bathtub or toilet or window, wherever. it should keep > draining when you unkink it, it'll just take a LOT longer. I'll try that, thanks! Now that the weather is warm that might just work! During the winter it wasn't feasible to drain it out onto the patio :) I'll have to get up early this weekend and give it a shot! Thanks for the idea! Please let us know how that goes. Never know, might need to drain a water bed some day.  SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . : > get the hose draining--hook it up, turn on the water til it's : > flowing into the bed, then quickly kink the hose and carry it to [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] : During the winter it wasn't feasible to drain it out onto the patio :) I'll : have to get up early this weekend and give it a shot! Thanks for the idea! Drain down the stairs to the sump pump in the cellar? If you have a sump or other drain, that is.... I'm remembering helping a couple friends move house. They had a water bed, which they drained out the front, wtih a garden hose. They didn't leave the hose long enough, four hardy teen agers could barely haul the matress down the stairs. I finally stopped them at the front door, and took the cap off the bladder, to drain it some more. I'm surprised the stairs didn't go crashing through. SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . : They do. I have one. And mine is leaking but it has nothing to do with : pets. The mattress is 10 years old and it sprung a leak way down on the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] : : Jill > Drain down the stairs to the sump pump in the cellar? If you have > a sump or other drain, that is.... [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > drain it some more. I'm surprised the stairs didn't go crashing > through. We're on our third mattress, so we've done it at least 3 times, I think. The bedroom is right next to the bathroom, so it's relatively easy to drain it. The hard part is that last little bit, as your friends found out! It doesn't look like much -- until you try to get the mattress off the bed. Ginger-lyn I always wondered if they could get the last bit by sticking books, and other stuff under the mattress. To raise up one corner. Make it drain better? SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . : > Drain down the stairs to the sump pump in the cellar? If you have : > a sump or other drain, that is.... [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] : : Ginger-lyn > I always wondered if they could get the last bit by sticking > books, and other stuff under the mattress. To raise up one > corner. Make it drain better? We didn't have to resort to books and such, but DH would hold up on end as long as he could, then push water towards the end, and do it over again. Slow, but it works. Ginger-lyn So many things in life. Lots of work. Slow. But, the accomplishment is worth it. SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . : > I always wondered if they could get the last bit by sticking : > books, and other stuff under the mattress. To raise up one [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] : : Ginger-lyn > It sounds like it is time for a new mattress. If it happened once, it > will probably happen again. I'm curious -- do they still make water > beds? MLB Gosh, I hope not -- it's a brand-new mattress! A friend got it for me to replace the old one which was, of course, full of too many holes and patched once too often. And yep, they sure do. We have stores here called "Waterbeds and Stuff". No comment on the "stuff" part of it -- heh. But they do sell the mattresses at least, or the "bladders" (never knew they were called that!). Ginger-lyn >> It sounds like it is time for a new mattress. If it happened once, it >> will probably happen again. I'm curious -- do they still make water [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Ginger-lyn If you are going to patch it and use it, put a thick layer of foam over the top to cut down on claw damage. Jo >> It sounds like it is time for a new mattress. If it happened once, it >> will probably happen again. I'm curious -- do they still make water [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the mattresses at least, or the "bladders" (never knew they were called > that!). Have you thought of getting an air-bed? (Assuming the water bed is not repairable, or just for future reference.) I bought a "Sleep Number" bed, and am very well-satisfied with it. They are rather pricey (although I think waterbeds are, too), but they carry a twenty-year guarantee, you can adjust the degree of firmness whenever you like (so you're not tied into whatever firmness you bought), and any but the twin-size can be bought with dual controls, so two people can each have their side as firm or soft as they want it. (Best of all, they are light-weight, and the worst that could happen if one sprung a leak is you'd find yourselve on a collapsed mattress - no flood!) Ginger-lyn <glsummer@neptunelink.net> wrote in news:6018i.17137$j63.2848 @newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net: > Okay, so I take back what I've previously said about the cats being so > good on the waterbed, I didn't have to worry about leaks. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > Ginger-lyn > ya always knew she was "all wet" ;-) Change the bladder at least every 15 years (12 would be better) to make sure you don't get leaks. The seams only last that long. I dread the day my old hips don't allow me the pleasure of my waterbed. Bobble SignatureHave you hugged your cat today? > Change the bladder at least every 15 years (12 would be better) to make > sure you don't get leaks. The seams only last that long. I dread the day [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > -- > Have you hugged your cat today? Upgrade to a Select Comfort Sleep Number bed. I have one, and it's WONDERFUL. It's light and comfortable, and very easy to move (as an apartment dweller, that's important to me). Jane - owned and operated by Princess Rita > This weekend there is going to be a *major* Claw Trimming Festival > <evil grin>. Once they find out how much fun it is to poke holes, they won't stop. It's like popping bubble wrap to them. Time for a dead bed. Chak, BTDT, waved a sad farewell to the bed SignatureBecause we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. --Henrik Tikkanen |
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