We are a couple slowly cruise our way around Oz in an old renovated Leyland Viking Coach towing our Suzuki 4x4. We have a little rough coat Jack Russell dog travelling with us. His name is SYD.
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Welcome to Derek and Karen's travel blog. We hope you will enjoy following our journey around Australia the slow way. We will try to keep our blog entertaining for you with our photography and highlights and the occasional lowlights (hopefully not too many of those). We have a couple of adds on the right that you are more than welcome to click on to view, that will help us along the way. The add about the Amazon Kindle is about our favourite choice of ebook that we read for at least 2 hours every day. We have a Kindle each and down load all sorts of books to read on them. So we hope you enjoy our blogs.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Mold under bed
I thought this may happen but prayed it wouldn't. But it did, moisture trapped under the mattress. We lifted the top end of our very heavy pure latex mattress to put the fresh clean fitted bottom sheet on and there it was on the bottom of the mattress, MOLD. Yuck, how dare it. So now we can't ignore the fact that we have not bothered to put some sort of ventilation under our very expensive mattress. So off to Bunnings to find a good fix. This is what we came up with, a Bamboo Garden Screen and a pair of Secauters. The secauters was used to trim the screen to fit on the bed base. This should give the mattress some ventilation under the bed, plus leaving the covers off all day. The mattress cover had to be cut apart to remove all the moldy sections, which was directly under our bodies on the bottom of the mattress, and replaces with new material. We aired the latex out in the sun for the day. It didn't have any signs of mold on it at all. We were luck this time. The mold has developed only in the past 10 days. That is how long it has been since we looked at the bottom of the bed. Fingers crossed this works. The screen cost us $48, I know, cheap, but it was the best thing we could come up with and if it works, then perfect.
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