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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well, hunh. I'm definitely going to have to look into that. Should I ask about the reality of air mattresses (of course, I'm thinking about the kind we had as kids, vis-a-vis camping and the like, not modern bed air mattresses) and big-ass cats with big-ass claws?????
Hitch
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Nothing like the camping kind, really. The inner "bladder" looks like that air mattress, but it's really thick rubber. It is zipped into a cloth and foam shell, with a "pillow top" on top (if you choose that) so that no cat claws can get near the delicate part. It LOOKS just like a mattress.
I'm having trouble finding a "cut-away" pic online; maybe they are private about that detail. Here's a small blowup of the parts that surround the actual air bladders (plural if you get 2 separately controlled one, for his-and-her). The air bladders are the 3rd layer down. Below that, the next layer is the outer foam bumpers, and the last is solid. PLUS the cloth zip shell to make it look like a mattress.
They require a firm foundation - one pic showed "bunky board" things underneath. I've used them in 2 different waterbed frames, since I liked my furniture, and it provided the required firm base. But check measurements, cuz waterbed "Q" isn't the same as regular.