How to seal the inflatable mattress

Layfhaker teach you how to fix a leaky mattress at home: how to find a puncture, which adhesive to use and how to properly seal the hole.

1. Find the hole in the mattress

Inflate the mattress, remove all sources of noise, and listen carefully. Damage in the mattress can give yourself a slight whistling sound. To be sure, dinning part may be immersed in water: small bubbles will indicate the puncture location.

If the previous method did not, it's time to feel like a real barber. The capacitance whisk water with detergent and a brush inflict thick lather on the surface of the mattress. In places puncture the foam begins to bubble.

Once you find damage, trace of his pen or a fine not to lose.

2. Prepare the surface

Before the beginning repairs release of the air mattress. The area around the puncture site clean from dust and dirt, degrease gasoline or alcohol. If it is necessary to glue the coated mattress velor or a flock, prior to application of the patch is important to remove lint from acetone or fine grain sandpaper.

3. Prepare a patch

Sometimes, complete with mattress are special repair kits. If there is no take thin rubber pieces from the set for automotive repair chambers or cut rubber toy baby. The patch must correspond to the size of the puncture indented 2-3 cm and be of oval or round shape. Before using it degrease the surface with gasoline or alcohol.

4. Cover the air mattress

How to seal a hole in the mattress? Suitable adhesive for PVC, universal "Moment" or polyurethane shoe glue.

How to do it? We already have a ready-to-repair mattress and cut to fit the low-fat patch. Now apply an even layer of glue on the mattress and the patch, wait 5 minutes to allow the glue grabbed a little and align them. For greater effect, the place of bonding is possible to put the goods on the day.

What to do if you need to seal the seam of the mattress

If the mattress is torn along the seam, patch superimposed on the outside, can not help. In this case, it makes sense to seal the inside of the mattress. For this purpose arms or drag line damaged area through the valve orifice. Then glue the patch (as per instructions of the preceding paragraph) to the inner side of the mattress. Remove the mattress and use it as you can usually within a day after the complete drying of the adhesive.

How to avoid new injuries

Repaired to an inflatable mattress to please you as much as possible, follow the following simple rules.

• Before you put a mattress on the floor, grass or sand, inspect the surface for sharps.
• Do not play on the mattress with pets: they can pierce his claws or teeth.
• Do not pull on a mattress on the floor, if there are people: the joints can separate.