How the hell do you

[bloodywhitecat]

Turn a king size mattress on your own? It's a heavy Hypnos one, DH and I used to do it together and I realised today that it hasn't been done in over a year so needed doing but how? Is there a hack I am missing?

If there is I don't know it. We used to have a really heavy mattress that I could only turn with DH's help, and even then it was a pain so I complained about it until we changed it for a lighter one.

I know you're on your own OP, I've read your threads.
Can you get someone to help? Or is it worth just getting a new mattress?

I you were anywhere near me I'd offer to come round and help but that's a long shot.

Hope you're doing as well as can be expected otherwise.

Without my husband, I couldn't flip ours over. But I think I could drag it around by the hand holds to turn it 180°. I would pull it away from the headboard and twist it round.
Failing that, I know my neighbours well enough to ask for help.
Ours is a Harrison Spinks, heaviest mattress we've ever had.

I can do it on my own but it’s not pretty. Basically I drag it bit by bit so it’s half off the bed to provide some clearance underneath. Then I lift up that side until it flips over. Then push it back into the bed frame

My mother in law used to rope in the neighbours to do hers.

Drag it lengthways a little way down the bed. Turn it through 90 degrees. Then stand it up on the long edge on the bed and flip it over. Turn it through another 90 degrees. Voila.

You need to get someone to help you, otherwise you risk injuring yourself or damaging things - knocking lamps over etc.

Do you have a friend/family member who could help you? I'm sure they wouldn't mind. I help my widowed DM out with all sorts of things like this that are two person jobs, or little DIY jobs that she's not confident doing herself.

I drag it off the bed, stand it vertically beside the bed and push it over onto the bed.

I just don't flip (I'm a disabled single parent) my dc between them swivel it round probably twice a year (alot less than it used to get done).

I am going to have to go down the ask my neighbour to help route, the bed is a bedframe with a tall foot end so I can't get it over the end of the bed and the room is long but narrow so there is no room to stand the mattress and me by the side of the bed. DH used to get it on its side on the bed then together we could turn it, it's strange the things that make me really miss him.

I only have a double and struggle with that, so I hope your neighbour can help. I will say clear all the bedside tables of everything. The amount of times I have been stuck, mattress up on its side, and see a lamp/a glass of water/cut glass trinket dish just waiting to be knocked off and break into a million pieces🙄

I guess it's the little things that can set off things when your dh is no longer with you💐 I also followed some of your other posts so know what you, and he, we're going through.

As an aside, what do you think of the Hypnos mattress? I really wanted to get one but didn't and I hate our current one.

@longtompot That's very good advice about moving trinkets! I love the Hypnos mattress, we've had it a good few years now and I am as happy on it now as I was the day we first got it.

Move anything off bedside tables, especially glasses of water.

Lift up corner, propped it over footboard. Stand on bed frame with knee under propped up corner and use full body weight to achieve precariously balanced mattress on side. Wonder how you will edge round end of foot board or over mattress without breaking neck or limb or ending up on floor under heavy mattress, where someone will find your body in a few weeks. Somehow manage to use handle on side to get the balance right so that it falls into place on the other side as you pull it.

Collapse in sweaty exhaustion. After recovery period, make bed and consider updating dating profile to attract strong, tall men, to resolve the mattress and cobweb issues, as clearly more useful than personality and looks. Have no energy left to do any of this.

Be careful. MIL got trapped under hers. Luckily in reach of telephone on bedside table and rang neighbour to free her!