Repairing Tips For Your Airbed
If you come upon any air seepage from your airbed you can repair it by your own instead calling an expert. Generally all manufacturers provide an airbed repairing kit with every model.
In most of the cases the kit includes some self adhesive velour patches for the upper flocked side and vinyl ones for other side. If you do not find any such, purchase them from stores. Manufacturers usually do not supply any paints for repairing small holes.
First, check out type of wholes on your air mattress. Then find out the required patches in the repairing kit. For tiny holes you will need some kind of paints either Aqua of Rust Oleum or Acrylic Paint. Please take it in to consideration that Rust Oleum can be handled indoors while you should use your garage, patio or backyard for working with Acrylic Paints. They are available in local stores. Care should be take during your repairing session specially when you use a sprayer.
You can follow the steps listed below to repair your Airbed:
- Try to determine the side where the holes are located. This is important because you may need Velour Patches for up side of the mattress and Vinyl ones for other sides. It is very easy to find out the leaks.
- Inflate the mattress and try to locate the larger holes first manually. Bigger ones produce hissing sound during release of air through it. Tiny holes can be found out by spraying water on the inflated air mattress. Water bubbles will be noticed on the holes, or run your hand over the mattress to feel for the leak. Just mark the individual area with a white pencil or any other marker in a circular manner. Then deflate the Mattress.
- Check out your repairing kit and its contents, if any. Depending upon the nature of wholes you have to collect sufficient amount of patches and paints. Make a check list for materials you need.
- Inflate the air mattress and start sticking the Vinyl patches over the marked larger wholes in the air mattress. You must make yourself sure that the the wholes are patched up completely.
- The patches are now to get air dried. Deflate the air mattress and lay down it over an old plastic sheet or news papers. Put the mattress top down after 2 to 3 hrs or as per instruction provided with the patch kit.
- Our work is now involved with the tiny holes. It's very easy to do. First locate the holes those were marked earlier then spray two or three coats of paint over it. For a good look it is better to use similar color of paints to the bottom of air mattress. Allow the coats of paint to get dried.
- Re-inflate the mattress after the paint is completely dried .
- Make sure that no air seepage is observed. If there is any, repeat Step-3 through Step-4 or Step-5 to Step-6 as required.
- Your air mattress is ready to use now.
Normally a good quality Aero Airbed will last at least for eight to ten years without any trouble. Hope, you do not require any repairing operation within that period. We have included this repairing review work to assist you before purchasing a new one. Take a chance to re-use your old Airbed with a small effort of repairing.