My kids found waterbeds and now want one

We just replaced my son's bed with a regular mattress bed since we use his room for guests when he is gone. He had a twin. He lives in the bowels of the basement, so the bed was warm in winter and cool in the summer. Sheets were harder to find, but not that bad. He loved it when he was younger for sure, but appreciates that he now has a queen to spread out in. We had a waterbed for 25 years. I hated to give that thing up. It was a waveless bed, so it didn't feel like a waterbed. I hate real mattresses.

Well, I remember that when my mother lived in an apartment, one night she heard water in the walls. Turned out the upstairs neighbors waterbed had ruptured. There was a nice big water stain on the ceiling and down the wall when it was all said and done.

So, that's a con, I suppose.

COns: can be too heavy for a second floor room to support or a floor that is not a cement slab foundation. Make sure the floor in the room you plan to put it can support it. Water weighs 9 pounds per gallon. Plus the weight of the wood frame and person.

What will be damaged in the event of a leak? Are they old enough to avoid impulsive behavior that might cause a rupture (harder to control than a small leak!

Harder to rearrange furniture (it they are rearrangers)

I loved the one we had in the 1990s. I liked that the termostat on the mattress could be turned up without heating the whole house for a cozy night sleep. And in the summer let it cool down during the hot sweaty summer heat. We had to get rid of ours when we moved into a 14th floor apartment where they were banned (government housing) after buying a convential mattress never felt like we could afford to ditch it and re-buy a water bed.

I had one as teenager. My parents had one for at least 15 years. Even my sister has one.

I loved mine. I got a heated one and that was heaven in the winters of Michigan. My friends liked it.

My parents switched from a regular one to a waveless one. I don't know how it's done now but they had to add a chemical that "thickened" the water. It became the equivalent of a pillow top mattress. At some point, they needed something firmer and went with a regular mattress. I gave up mine when i went to college. My parents sold my childhood home during my second year and did some updating and put a regular twin bed in my room.

I didn't know they still existed!

And they feel like warm mud (in the best of ways) on a cold day.  You couldn't even tell when someone else got into bed.   

I still have a waterbed and LOVE it! I built a new frame to update the look. I use regular deep pocket sheets on mine. Love that it is heated. I've had mine since 1988 and hate sleeping in a regular bed when I am somewhere else.

I remember years ago a friend had a waterbed. I slept the night at her house and the power went out - the heated waterbed was no longer heated. It got so cold so fast. Really uncomfortable.

I assume they have improved over the decades, but that was so awful to wake up in that cold bed.

Back in the 80s, my boyfriend had a queen size waterbed in his dorm room! (The rooms on the first floor of that dorm were large, and his roommate lofted his bed against a different wall.)

I remember the bed being really sloshy. There's pros and cons to that....

Surely I am not reading this right! You got a full when you were 12 because your boyfriend stayed over a lot??!!

I had 2 waterbeds from the time I turned 1 to when I moved to FL for grad school at 22. I loved those things! I liked that it was always just warm enough when I got in. No shivering to warm up the sheets. The waterbed formed to my body, so no lumpy bumpy mattress to squirm around in to find just the right spot. It was the best.

Con. The seams will break over time. When they break they will leak. Can make for a major mess. Also, the mattresses can be punctured by sharp things. Also can be messy. I had a queen sized bed from 1 to 11 until the seam on my mattress started to split and leak. When that happened my parents bought an all new twin sized bed. That was kept problem free until I moved away.

We had tube ones. So 10 tubes.