My new-to-me "pillow top" is not attached to my new-to-me queen mattress, but is a separate pillowy pad which likes to migrate beneath the fitted sheet to my side of the bed.
My queen bed, which came from some relatives who were upgrading to a king, came with a pillow-top, but rather than being sewn to the top of the mattress like many pillow-tops, it's a traditional, two-sided queen mattress, plus a separate 3"-thick pillow-soft pad (not a raw mass of foam, but a nicely sewn fabric "box" around a foam pad), which I'll be calling a pillow-top, with the same major dimensions as the mattress. It's great to sleep on, but it doesn't stay in place, and since it lives under the fitted sheet, it's not simple to move back into place.
After being set back into place as being square with the mattress, it takes merely 3-4 nights before it's got 4-6" hanging off of the side on which I board the bed, and if not re-centered, will eventually pull my fitted sheet off one or more of its corners. The movement is partly because, I think, of the time I spend sitting on the edge of the bed each night, tucking my devices into their chargers and such. 30 nightly seconds of sitting, plus the getting in and out of bed, seems to be all it takes for the pillow-top to slide an inch to my side of the bed, daily.
My first plan was to find someone else to sleep with me whose mirror-image actions could tug the bed over to the other side, but that one's taking some effort to implement, so I'm looking for an alternative plan:
Are there any sort of stays or bands or anything that'll hold the pad in place? There are no apparent loops, hooks, or fasteners of any kind on the pillow-top to which I might attach such a thing. Would adhesive strips work? I don't think sticking textiles together with tape is a long-term solution. I'm not equipped to sew hook-and-loop strips to the pillow-top. I could hold it in place with a ratcheting strap, but that'll hinder its performance as softly supporting pad.
And perhaps, I've considered, I'm doing this wrong? From the bottom up, I currently have the properly supported mattress, mattress pad, pillow-top, fitted sheet, and then me and all my covers. Should this be under the mattress pad? I haven't tried it because, if that plan fails, it'll be even more work each week to reset the dang pillow-top.
And last question, is it called a pillow-top when it's not attached to the mattress? Maybe there's a better search term you can help me with.
This question was inspired by this Ask, which also solved one of my bed problems, but doesn't quite seem to solve this one. |
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