I own the BRIMNES day bed that comes with the two single ASVANG foam mattresses. I washed the covers that zip around, then put in my drier and melted them face palm. I contacted IKEA and they confirmed they don't sell replacement covers, so was wondering if any of you guys have successfully found another product to use?
Mattresses themselves are like £99 each so don't wanna fork out for that.
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Try Clorox2, or Hydrogen Peroxide, or Sodium Percarbonate or Oxyclean, (it's all the same stuff) instead of chlorine bleach. Chlorine bleach reacts with some brighteners to turn them yellow or purple.
We used a 'white repair' type laundry product, bought from the local supermarket. It is specifically for whitening rather than colour runs. It worked very well.
It contains sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate or 'oxygen based bleaching agents', very different from chlorine bleach.
There are two tricks which my family has been using when doing this. Unfortunately it still requires some work.
First of all you should stretch it directly after washing to regain some of the size it had before washing. Especially try stretching the width of the covers. Do avoid tumble dryers as they tend to shrink it even more.
Secondly, when inserting the mattress into the cover bend it halfway along the longest side before sliding it in. Then it is a matter of aligning the corners with each other. This does usually demand a little patience, time and fumbling.
If you find yourself way off, you might need to bend the mattress again a little too get leverage for moving the cover.
Good luck (or rather "Lykke til")!
After washing the cover of my queen size Ikea mattress I couldn't get it back on.
The cover tended to grab on the mattress, and refused to slide on smoothly.
The solution was to stand the mattress against a wall and fold a polypropylene (plastic) tarpaulin over the upper edge of the mattress just far enough so it stayed put, covering one face and the sides of the mattress.
I was then able to slide the mattress cover on fairly easily over the smooth polypropylene tarp.
Once the cover was almost fully in place I layed the mattress on the floor and pulled the tarp out. Because the polypropylene is very strong I could pull really hard on it without it tearing.
Final closure of the mattress cover was fairly easy after that. See the photo.