How to cut
10 Memory Foam
How to Cut a Memory Foam or Tempurpedic Bed in Half
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hey guys this John Frazier here just
wanted to show you our tempurpedic bed
here it's a king size anyway we were
trying to sell this on Craigslist and
nobody really seemed to you know people
did come out I mean I put it out there a
couple thousand dollars dropped fifteen
hundred down to 900 800 he I started
getting called as a 700 everybody wanted
to make a deal I said you know that's
you know I've got two kids 13 16 right
now and they'd love to have a
tempurpedic bed and and I don't want to
spend you know thousand two thousand
bucks just buying a single or twin or
something like that so the solution was
to cut the stump for Pedic King directly
in half and make it to basically
California singles and use the bases
that are on there to work directly in
their bedroom so this is the the process
okay so what you're going to see here is
this this is a tempur-pedic basically
slipcover that they've put directly onto
the unit itself
I've already just simply removed it but
all you have to do is simply find the
zipper unzips this whole thing and then
you're good to go
you take the slipcover off you're going
to have this really shiny thin material
that the tempur-pedic is going to be
wrapped in and I just took a pair of
scissors and just gently you know cut
that directly off of it that's your next
step so basically what I had to do is
activate the layers and stuff off just
simply remove them put it to the side
and then the next step after all of this
is you have to measure so using the
handy dandy tools down here you're just
going to measure the center point of the
bed
you're going to measure the center point
of the bed and then one thing I did is
take the two the base base is here and
here right there and just simply
separated them a little bit so that you
can cut the top without having to you
know cut the base okay so anyway the
first thing that I did is I I just went
and grabbed my wife does upholstery so I
just took a dowel rod drilled a hole in
it made it a little bit longer so I can
put a sharpie and just so that you can
reach make a straighter line but you
know you can just use a regular regular
marker do that just fine second thing
was having a good long ruler good
straight one this one is uh
72 inches long so looking at what six
feet or so and just what you're the
whole point of this is you're just
looking to find the center line of the
bed so mine didn't expand all the way to
the end let me take this side you can
see there's a little bit of a gap here
at the end so I went ahead and use my
other tape just to kind of bridge the
gap over there and it ended up being
right at 37 so one two three four five
six two three four five 37 and 5/8 was
my approximate center point so I went
ahead and what you have to do is you
really have to mark it down here you
know about a foot up and so on and then
measure between each of the points to
get a pretty decent line of course mark
your center line look at that reach
almost all the way to the edge of bed
without even having to try using this so
once you do that next step is make your
side mark straight
down here vertical to the base and and
we will try to start cutting I'm going
to start down at the other end and let's
see how it goes I want to stay away from
the center so I'm not pulling the phone
in any direction so it's going to start
all the way down
just have a regular kitchen knife that I
took and sharpened non-serrated it will
make a nice straight smooth cut
about halfway through already
okay so now to make sure that we'll cut
all the way through
and the other side is actually the
memory phone so
looks pretty good
spot right here to cut all the way
through right there to make it all the
way through so I'm using a for about an
8 and a half inch knife there
okay
okay so that took a little bit of work
the bed has been cut all the way through
now and just to give you an idea of the
size of the knife itself the blade on
this is a right at 90 inches or so long
so really if you had a 9 or 10 inch
blade you'd actually go through it the
first time on this type of King without
having to do a secondary cut and now
let's take a look and see hunter now
okay so here is the final product pretty
straight let's say and those are your
two sides right there if I wanted to I
could probably go back in and trim up a
couple two pieces that weren't exactly
straight but you know once you put a
sheet and stuff over you're not even
going to notice this is one of the
interesting things I found with memory
foam the top section is actually memory
foam this section down here is memory
foam as well and then this section down
here is just regular from I was under
the understanding that the
tempur-pedic's were memory foam all the
way through but I guess use various
versions of foam to give you support in
different places so that was a very
interesting to to see so this is
squishier up here this is a little bit
less squishy and then of course this is
regular foam down here okay so to all my
viewers out there just wanted to say my
heritage is Indian so I can say I have
now cut it in half and I have two I've
got two beds got one take one make it in
half cut it make it two so there you go
enjoy your frugality and not being cheap
but being frugal
that section of the magic point marker
that way you can reach more easily into
this but you know you can just use a
regular mark whoops
