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11-10-2011, 09:13 AM
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Established Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
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King to queen mattress
Would like to know if it is possible to take out king mattress and put in a queen? Not sure how we would get out king to put queen in. Probably would have to put in 2 twins. Help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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11-10-2011, 09:21 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Land O Lakes
Posts: 2,783
M.O.C. #10246
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We just ordered a memory foam mattress (queen) to replace our current king. From the advice received on the MOC forum, it is simply a matter of cutting the plywood base down to queen width. We thought long and hard about doing this in order to have adequate space to move around the bed/make it up each morning. With the king, it is a tight squeeze between the forward mirror doors/wall and the bed...just too much of a hassle every morning. I know giving up the king bed would not work for a lot of people, but it will meet our needs.
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11-10-2011, 09:49 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bangor
Posts: 770
M.O.C. #8816
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We got lucky, well I did. Wife wanted a king bed so that's what got ordered in our new monty. The unit came through with a queen, go figure, anyway I'm happy and $200 to the good.
kevin
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11-10-2011, 10:42 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Naples
Posts: 178
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I replaced our king mattress with a queen and did not have a problem. I sawed 6" off each side of the plywood that supports the mattress. I just rolled up the existing king mattress and carried it out. The new queen mattress was about 10" thick and I just pushed and shoved it into the trailer by myself. DW was upset that I did not wait for her help but it was rather a simple procedure to get it in to the trailer. Good luck.
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11-10-2011, 10:50 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Wilsey
Posts: 18,799
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Same here. We had the dealer cut down the plywood, left them the king mattress and put the home style queen mattress we had in our TT in the Monty when we traded.
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11-10-2011, 11:02 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Windsor
Posts: 462
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We replaced our OEM king with a sleep number queen. Ken cut the plywood base and we are very happy with it. Now I don't have to make the bed from the closet!!! Works for us!!
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11-10-2011, 02:23 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Leona
Posts: 6,382
M.O.C. #2059
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We kept our king size, rather we replaced it with a memory foam custom king that is 72" X 80". A regular king is 78" X 80" and a California king is 72" X 84". Making the bed is not a biggy for us. We use a Travasak, so there is no tucking at the head of the bed. Simply pull up the spread in a display fold with stacked pillows.
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11-10-2011, 02:31 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Winthrop Harbor
Posts: 1,831
M.O.C. #8160
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We went from the king to queen. I cut down the plywood to accomodate the queen and sanded the edges smooth w/o a problem. it's nice to have the extra room on the sides.
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11-10-2011, 02:42 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: The Dalles
Posts: 166
M.O.C. #11255
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Did it first thing last year when we bought our '06 2955. sold the king matress for $45 and ordered a memory foam from overstock.com at a really good price. It was easy to cut down the plywood base and we like the queen much better.
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11-10-2011, 02:53 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Siloam Springs
Posts: 2,206
M.O.C. #8890
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From King to a 16" thick Queen. We love the extra room.
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11-10-2011, 03:35 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Shore
Posts: 6,009
M.O.C. #7110
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Taking your time it’s about a half hour job, ok I guess it could be stretched into an hour. On ours it was just a couple of simple cuts along the lower sides of the bed platform and swap out the mattresses. The base width for the king size part of the bed didn’t go all the way up into the slide out so it was a simple cut to just follow the edge along the rest of the lower part of the platform by the foot of the bed. The worst part was cleaning up any saw dust remaining. As mentioned, it’s nice having the extra room around the bed.
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11-11-2011, 01:59 AM
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Established Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
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M.O.C. #5865
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How did you get your king mattress out of the bedroom? Roll up? What about putting in the queen? Same way?
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11-11-2011, 02:20 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nekoosa
Posts: 412
M.O.C. #5793
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We lucked out..our dealer orders all stock units with the Queen bed.
Big reason is more room in bedroom. Also with a king, you have to open the closet to make the bed!
Roy
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11-11-2011, 02:55 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Hixson
Posts: 3,436
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We did it on our previous 3400RL and it worked great. Very noticeable extra floor space. We just received our ordered 3585SA and bedroom is even better now with queen bed and the extra 6" that the slide deploys. We had no problem on the 2008 3400 removing the king bed.
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11-11-2011, 08:18 AM
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M.O.C. #5865
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Has anyone put in a regular queen mattress? Not the rv kind.
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11-11-2011, 09:01 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Naples
Posts: 178
M.O.C. #9521
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We did a regular queen mattress and it just fit.
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11-11-2011, 12:28 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Siloam Springs
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by nowinter
We did a regular queen mattress and it just fit.
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Same here.
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11-11-2011, 03:11 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Hixson
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M.O.C. #11397
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We also put in a regular queen (memory foam).
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11-11-2011, 11:17 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Shore
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M.O.C. #7110
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by richgregor
How did you get your king mattress out of the bedroom? Roll up? What about putting in the queen? Same way?
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We took out the king which came with the camper. I didn’t have a problem getting it through the doors. The king size came out fairly easily by turning it onto its side but it’s much better if you have some help. It seems to be somewhat bulky when working with it. The one we placed back in was a regular queen foam mattress and we put it in also by turning it to its side. We have the 3400 and this wasn’t a problem. I don’t know exactly how your camper is laid out but I would think that it should work about the same way.
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11-12-2011, 01:09 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Land O Lakes
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M.O.C. #10246
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by nowinter
We did a regular queen mattress and it just fit.
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The queen we ordered is "regular." Had my fill with the "short" mattresses....
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