Where to buy fitted sheets that are not 'extra deep'

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DS has a small double (4ft) bed with quite a thin mattress, which came with the bed and isn't the height of luxury but is perfectly adequate. It's only 6"/15cm deep. I bought some fitted sheets for it on Amazon a couple of years ago but one of them now needs to be replaced, and everything I can find online is 'extra deep' and made for mattresses that are at least 25cm thick. The Amazon ones are no longer available. Help!!

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Im sure any sheet will be fine, I have the opposite problem. They are never deep enough. Bigger is better than too small.

The smallest box depth I can find on Next is 23cm. I tried one of those originally but it was too loose and didn't stay put.

I know what you mean.

I'm bought some from Asda living, they were just standard cotton, nothing fancy, but were perfect fit.

Thank you, @ParadiseLaundry - I'll have a look at Asda. Wouldn't have thought of that.

Argh. Asda don't do small double sizes. He really hates baggy crumpled sheets so bigger/deeper ones are no good.

Given that this is obviously going to be a troublesome bed to buy fitted sheets for, as 4 footers not common, can't you just buy standard double flat sheets which should stay tucked well with that mattress combo?

Flat sheets are your answer here, with hospital corners.

You can buy custom sized/made to measure sheets. John Lewis used to do it, not sure they still do, but there’s other companies on the Internet offering the service.

Dunelm sell them in different depths

Buy flat sheets?

Thanks, @Pinkypurplecloud - I'll look into that.

Dunelm don't have any shallow enough on their website, unfortunately.

I'm starting to think it'd be easier to just get a new mattress!

Flat sheets would solve this completely. And they are easier to fold up neatly.

You can buy straps for fitted sheets
Google 'straps to tighten fitted sheets' Plenty on eg Amazon. Simply clip to the edges and pulls it tight

We have a small double and buy the double fitted sheets from Asda and they fit great.

Second this!
They are brilliant! Bought them for my bed which has very deep mattress but also 2 toppers and a protector and they made the sheet move around too much. Sheet suspenders hold it really taut and never untuck. I got these £4.20 for 4. Triangular ones better than straight.

I was going to suggest buying flat sheets and sewing them to make them fitted (I did this with DD's toddler bed).

The clips seem like a much better idea!

I've been experimenting with exactly these lately. Gotta disagree - the triangular straps apparently are meant for sheets that are slightly too small, but don't help too much with a lower mattress. About to order straight ones instead to go all the way across the mattress rather than on each corner.

In an aside, soo annoying how everything lately is pandering to the box spring fashion. Bad enough to actually encounter these monstrosities in hotels- I don't want to sleep on top of a trampoline! Just give me a futon and slat suspension system any day.

It sounds like a very unusually thin mattress, maybe you should get him a new one? Can't be that comfortable.

It is quite a thin mattress but he likes it. We're looking at getting a deeper one eventually, but it's surprisingly comfortable (it's some sort of part-sprung, part-memory foam affair). He did have a mattress topper on it to make it a bit thicker but he found it more comfortable without!

Anyway, for the time being I'm going to order a custom-sized sheet from here. Thanks for the tips.