Slightly OT: Bottom sheets on beds

You buy a "fitted sheet" that has elastic around the edge. I don't think I have seen non-fitted sheets for sale for years.

Buy a fitted sheet. Or use spray adhesive. Or tie string to each of the four corners of the sheet, up end mattress, gather four lengths of string, pull tight, tie knot, replace mattress. Wife lies awake all night because she can "feel" the knot. Go out and buy fitted sheet.

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You can still get "flat sheets". Is the OP doing proper "hospital corners" when tucking in or just shoving the edge under that matress. Seems a bit odd to only have a single bottom sheet and no matress protector. By matress protector I don't mean a plastic or rubber thing but a lightly quilted sheet or blanket.

Use fitted sheets but importantly those which are right for the thickness of the mattress. We recently bought some from Makro which did sell the deeper fitting ones albeit only in one style.

If you buy deep fitted sheets (Some fitted sheets are not made for a deep mattress) you can apply these:

I think lakeland used to do something like this as well.

Hope this helps

dedics

The fitted sheet with mattress protector solution works well here. Now if someone can advise a fix for the fat cow nicking most of the duvet it would be appreciated.

Separate quilts.

In continental Europe, double beds quite often have two mattresses under a common sheet and two duvets, allowing each side of the bed to be tailored to individual needs.

Colin Bignell

I find that even fitted sheets can come off, although they are less prone to do so than flat sheets.

Colin Bignell

On 2010-11-16, Nightjar

JOOI, does anyone sell fitted sheets in non-standard sizes? I am thinking 5' wide by 6'6" long here. Could probably DIY it but that would mean spending tool budget on a sewing machine.

Andrew

Our bottom sheets are Swiss and are stretch - that is, the whole material is somewhat elastic. The sheet always looks far too small for the mattress, but you pull it on and it tucks under all the way round, perhaps much the same way as a so-called fitted one does.

Not quite sure how they're made (so as not to seem rubbery, I mean), but it's vey comfortable, and, being stretched over its whole surface, there are no wrinkles - you never have to iron the bastard.

I think they're better than fitted as they are never loose, either.

Separate beds.

Thus spake Huge ( snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.much.invalid) unto the assembled multitudes:

My German former in-laws used to call our ordinary double bed a "French bed" when they visited, as they were used to a wide bed with separate mattresses and they found ours a little too intimate :-)

Is my mental arithmetic totally buggered? I ask as I make that as near as damn it a typical King Size (150x200cm in newspeak?) for which there are loads.

(Sadly I haven't used a bed that size of yonks but the memory lingers on.)

Is it? Maybe. I thought a King Size was a bit longer but could be wrong. It was because it consists of two small single mattresses that I was under the impression that it was not a normal size. I must check. If I could get a fitted sheet it would be a lot easier than trying to fit a flat sheet over two mattresses without them moving apart.

Andrew

Of course you have, they are "top sheets" so you just buy two

tim

Are you sure you got a larger size? Not a daft question as we've been having some trouble finding the right size. The problem is that "king size" for instance, means different things to different companies, so always buy your sheets in actual measurements (inches, centimetres, whatever) rather than names.

We have two 3ft wide bases bolted together, with two 3ft wide mattresses zipped and linked together. The whole thing is classed as a "super king" bed so you would think that "super king" sheets would be correct - but there's a hell of a difference. Dunelm Mill super king sheets were (IIRC) a few inches lacking in width when compared to some others and fell somewhere between king and super king.

Fitted sheets are useless and will always come out but a proper sized flat sheet, properly tucked under will stay where it's put. Due to my back injury I spend the vast majority of the night twisting, turning and squiggling about (in bed for 8 hours, asleep for less than 3) which is why we went for seperate mattresses, but our sheets stay put.

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