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Pros and Cons of Split Queen vs. Split King Adjustable Beds Split Queen Adjustable Bed Pros: Space-Saving: A split queen is smaller than a split king, making it ideal for bedrooms with limited space....

Adjustable beds, also known as reclining beds, have become a popular choice among many people, from those seeking better comfort to individuals with specific health needs. The ability to customize your sleeping ...

Yes, you can buy two split queen mattresses that are the same height but have different firmness levels. Split queen mattresses are designed to be used with adjustable bed frames (but do not have to be), which allow...

There is a vast array of options available on the market, and it can be both bewildering and time-consuming to determine the specific requirements that suit you. This guide aims to assist you in navigating through t...

The easiest way to achieve your preferred mattress height off the floor is by using a mattress foundation or a box spring. Here's how you can do it: Mattress Foundation/Box Spring: These are specially d...

Both the electronics and the mattress are important components of a split king adjustable bed, and their importance can vary depending on your personal preferences and needs. Let's break down the significance of...

The ways to buy oneof our products ranked in order of popularity. 1) Visit the showroom at 2273 Dundas Street West,Mississauga, Ontario L5K 2L8. We're open10-6 Mondaythrough Saturday and11-5 on Sunday. Seeing...

The feasibility of placing an adjustable bed inside a metal headboard, footboard, and steel connecting frame depends on the specific design and construction of these components. Here are some considerations: ...

Yes, in a split king bed, each side is typically the size of a twin bed. A split king bed consists of two separate mattresses placed side by side, with each mattress measuring approximately 38 inches wide and 80...

Yes, an adjustable bed can potentially help with sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or shallow breaths during sleep. It can cause disruptions in sleep and lead to dayti...

A split king adjustable bed is essentially two twin XL beds placed side-by-side, making it equivalent to a king-sized bed in total. The benefit of a split king adjustable bed is the ability to individually adjust th...

Adjustable beds are becoming increasingly popular as they offer several benefits such as improved comfort, relief from pain, and better sleep quality. Some of the most important features to consider when selecting a...

The optimal angle of foot elevation to improve circulation in the lower legs can vary depending on the individual's specific condition and needs. In general, elevating the legs to an angle of 15 to 30 degrees...

Adding side rails to an adjustable bed can be safe, but it depends on several factors.(We have not beenable to find aftermarket side rails that we are sure are safe) Firstly, it's important to ensure that the...

As someone who is 5'6" tall, you should be able to fit comfortably on a regular twin adjustable bed(only true when in the flat position)which typically measures 38 inches wide by 75 inches long. H...

Sleeping with your head elevated can be helpful for a variety of medical conditions. Here are some of them: Acid reflux or GERD: Sleeping with your head elevated can help prevent stomach acid from flowing back...

Yes, a bed wedge can be a good choice for people with acid reflux. Acid reflux occurs when stomach acid flows back up into the esophagus, causing a burning sensation in the chest and throat. Lying down flat can wors...

It is possible to add side rails to an adjustable electric bed, but it is important to do so safely and correctly. ( we do not sell any add on side rails for our adjustable beds because we've never been able ...

More motors in an adjustable bed can offer a number of benefits, but it also depends on your specific needs and preferences. Advantages of having more motors include: Improved adjustability: With more motor...

It is possible to install an adjustable bed inside your existing wooden bedroom suite, but it would depend on the size of the bed and the dimensions of the suite. If the adjustable bed is smaller in size than your e...

Adjustable beds can be reliable, but it depends on the quality of the bed and the manufacturer. Some adjustable beds are made with high-quality materials and components, and are designed to last for years with prope...

The main reason people buy a hospital bed instead of an adjustable bed is because hospital beds are specifically designed for medical use and have features that are not found on adjustable beds. These featur...

Yes it will, we have many customers who have purchased two twin xl sized mattresses (we'll help you choose) from us for just this reason.

When none of the buttons are working on your remote check these things out: 1) Your power cord may have fallen out of the wall socket or disconnected from where it plugs in on the underside of your adjustable...

.We have four mattress models that can be vacuum packed and easily shipped pretty much anywhere in Canada including Prince Edward Island. The Blue Sky 100 The Blue Sky 300 The Heaven Sent Firm or Pl...

There may be a brand out there but we have not found it yet. In fact we are sending one sub standard model back this week because it continuously stopped responding to it's remote control. Another Canadian ma...

Nine Clouds Beds can ship 30" x 80" Blue Sky 100 mattresses to pretty much anywhere in Canada. Start with a base of medium firm Soy Based Bio Foam then add a two inch layer of relaxing Resilient Foam an...

We had a customer who bought an adjustable bed from us in January of 2019and ran into big problems this week. The structure that holds the motors onto the base crashed to the floor as seen below. Clearly this...

We have displayedboth in our Mississauga Ontario showroom for years and can talk you through that decision. The most obvious differences are that a home hospital bed comes with side rails that are securely fasten...

We can ship split queen BlueSky 100 mattresses across the country. They can be vacuum packed and boxed to ship easily and safely. They're available in both 30x80 and 32x80 sizes. The Blue Sky 100 startswith a...

Nine Clouds Beds does! Features -Head, foot and pillow articulation -Zero clearance foundation that is three and one half inches high -Wallhugger enabled to keep your nightstand close -Capacitive easy...

Our store and manufacturer backed adjustable beds were more than twice as expensive as the adjustable bed model they had recently bought online and became quickly defective (with no recourse). They didn't buy...

On a twin xl size of our most popular model adjustable bed The Supremethe spacing between the outside of a pair of legs is 28" and thus inset 5" from either side of the electric base. This insetshould ...

Every adjustable bed we sell comes with one set of screw in support legs at no charge. Sometimes they come with more than one length and sometimes the legs provided are adjustable in height. Were you to buy ...

Yes you can! This happens all the time. Some insurance companies want you to pay for an adjustable bed in full and take delivery before they repay the agreed upon amount to you directly. While some ins...

Ultramatic made two different size split queen beds one where each half is 30" x 80" and one where each half is32" x 80" so it's important to get the sizing correct if you want the mattresses...

Many customers who purchase split queen or split king adjustable beds from Nine Clouds already have standard queen or king sheet sets that they are fond of. You can now buy custom fitted sheets alone for eac...

We are more than happy to talk you through your best options leaving no need to visit our Mississauga showroom. If you're buying an adjustable bed or home hospital bed we are always willing to bring two choices ...

A young man asked me this yesterday and I smiled because I've had adjustable bed at home for years and sorely miss it when we go on vacation. Of course, I have a different point of view than a young man 4...

We havea multitude of colours to choose from and the fitted sheets can even be made in the hard to find size of 32" x 80".

No one has ever said it quite that way to me before in all my years in the business until today ;) A couple were looking at a queen size adjustable bed with a latex mattress (good choice!) and he made it very cle...

I sometimes get asked if our adjustables come with heat? They don't and no supplier has offered to provide them to us. I have heard stories from the 70's and 80's about heated adjustable beds going up...

Today that's exactly what happened. She was looking for a quality cool gel memory foam mattress in double size and it just so happened that we had the firm version our Slumber Breeze mattress displayed on a s...

You will always get a better price when you buy two or more adjustable beds at the same time. The discount will change based on current deals our suppliers are offering and the size of adjustable beds you are purcha...

It's only five inches difference 75" vs 80" but the cost is only a few dollars more for a double xl mattress than a regular double size (around the same price as a queen size mattress of the same model...

A customer from west of Hamilton purchased a split king adjustable bed today and they told me their machine shop can fabricate anything including a steel rail that turns a queen into a king (which is exactly what th...

Our Elite adjustable lifestyle bed has all the bells and whistles including lumbar support. The amount of lumbar suppport is adjusted through a button on the remote control. Take personal comfort to t...

We used to see a handful each month of people suffering from acid-reflux now we are seeing a handful a week. An adjustable lifestyle bed can definitely help by raising your head to an angle high enough to help preve...

No it can't for a couple of reasons. The most important issue is that the length of a twin fitted sheet is five inches shorter than the eighty inches of a split queen and thus likely not fit at all from h...

There isn't an add on device that will do this safely that I know of but you could purchase a wooden sleigh bed that has a high enough footboard to effectively do the same thing. We don't sell them but I...

We are more than happy to and I did so today for a new customer that has lived in Erin Mills longer than I have owned a store at the north east corner of Glen Erin and Dundas (26 years). She had thoroughl...

It certainly can, there is no guarantee of course but many people are told by their doctors to put a pillow undertheir feet when they sleep. That works fine if you remain stationary all night but few people do so th...

The only kind of bed we can't place our adjustable beds into is a storage bed that has a drawer system that would get in the way of the four support legs that all need to be on your floor. We don't ...

My answer is always the same, "you get what you pay for". There will always be somewhere to buy something cheaper particularly in 2019when a quick Google search can take you around the world in a fraction ...

Nine Clouds displays both a firmcool gel memory foam and a firm Talalay latex mattress in our Mississauga showroom in split queen size for you to try.

We've never run into a set of stairs that we could not navigate up or down with a split king size in the 26 years I have been offeringthem to customers. Each half of oursplit kingis38" x 80" if ...

We've had many customers choose different adjustable bed models and adjustable bed mattresses for each half of a split queen or asplit king. If you decide toselect two mattresses of varyingthicknesses you can ch...

We can drop all of our adjustable beds inside your existing headboard and footboard unless you have a storage bed with drawers that wouldget in the way. If your headboard-footboard is metal that is attached t...

Our adjustable beds weightsstart at 103 pounds. Even with the lighter units you will need two people to move them because the large surface area will be awkward to lift. Please drop by our Mississauga Ontario sho...

At the press of a button on our most popular model The Supreme adjustable bed. Any adjustable bed can be set up in a zero gravity position once but unless you have a memory preset button like The Supreme it will ...

All of Nine Clouds Beds adjustable bed models have been chosen to alowthem tofit inside any North American bed frame we have ever seen other than those with storage drawers underneath. Storage beds willnot alow all ...

We have adjustable bed frames starting at $2149 complete with mattress and local in home delivery and set up. Profile Foundation-Style Base – The low-profile design easily fits inside the frame of your bed....

A California King Adjustable bed could be just the solution and that’s what a customer from Cambridge Ontario chose to buy yesterday. This size (72” x 84” in total) is more often chosen by talle...

Yes you can! Make sure you visit when I am in the showroom. My name is Bill, I am the owner. You can reach me at bill@nineclouds.ca.

We’ve yet to find a supplier who manufactures an adjustable bed that moves to Trendelenburg and reverse Trendelenburg position reliably. We had a customer visit the showroom yesterday that was told by their...

A number of times a year our delivery team arrives at a customer’s home to find a customer’s existing mattress is a different size than the one they ordered. If you’ve ordered a custom size matt...

There are always resellers of Adjustable Beds at the Exhibition and they always claim tooffer fantastic deals and long warranties but often you never see or hear of them again when the CNE closes. Nine Clouds Bed...

Yes you can with our Comfort Elite Model as shown below. STEP 1 Unplug base for 3 minutes, then plug back in. The underbed light turns on. Base is now in pairing mode. STEP 2 Remove the battery compartme...

We were not very busy today when and a nice couple entered from the Dundas Street West door. I greeted them as I every customer “watcha lookin for?” The woman explained that her younger sibling was in...

A nice couple fromNorth York purchased a california king supreme adjustable bed today even though neither was more than five foot ten tall. They just wanted the extra few inches in length and did not already have a ...

We had a visit from a customer who wanted just that yesterday. She had knee problems but wanted an adjustable bed because of the added features and the much wider choice in mattresses available for them. ...

I helped a nice ladyfrom Oakville today with this exact life experience. I showed her memory foam onpocket coil (no good, too much pushing back), then I showed her all memory foam (much better but to soft), and then...

Yes they do and it happened again yesterday! A nice local family came in yesterday and after 30 minutes of happy bantering and testing had pretty much chosen a Gibraltar Extra Firm mattress. The husband wanted to...

I got asked this question earlier today (for the first time) by a couple who had just sold their home and are moving to a condo in Waterdown in August. The couple who bought their house also wanted to buy their ...

A customerfrom Oakville Ontario visited the showroom with her daughter in law today looking for a new mattress or an adjustable bed. She had damaged her two year old mattress when given bad advice by staff in her...

Many people rent or buy a home hospital bed when they return home form the hospital after surgery. The hospital bed is practical for this purpose but never as comfortable as an adjustable bed and if you choose a ...

Just press the flat button once and then quickly press it again if you don’t actually want your lifestyle bed to go down to the flat position. The massage will be off and all will be good. Visit ...

Most customers are uninterested in having a massage included with their electric beds. They try it quickly in the showroom and maybe find it loud or too strong and turn it off never to try it again except by acc...

We had a customer today who was looking for an adjustable electric bed for their father. They needed a quote for insurance purposes and it had to be for an "electric bed" not a home hospital bed which ...

Having your adjustable bed raise your mattress into the small of your back can make all the difference for anyone suffering from spinal pain. Our EliteAdjustable bed will do just that and more.Take personal comfo...

In combination with the differing thicknesses of our adjustable bed mattress models we can set up your new lifestyle bed to a very wide range of heights form the floor. Please visit Nine Clouds Beds adjustabl...

The need for home hospital beds has grown 5-10% per year over the last decade as our population has aged. This growth is forecasted to continue until at 2050. As a general rule people prefer pressure point re...

I have served an increasing number of customers over the last year who came in seeking the relief that an electric bed can offer for acid reflux.Invariably they are already placing risersunder their headboard to ach...

Structure – An adjustable bed is designed to take the place of your traditional bed and comes in a variety of sizes and firmnesses. A hospital bed is typically 36’ x 80” to allow easier access for ...

We’ve had a run of purchasers lately who want the beds as low as possible either because both halves of the relationship are not very tall or because one half has medical issues that make it difficult to navig...

A recent customer who bought a split king adjustable bed called me back later that day to make sure his current bed would work to surround his new purchase. Their metal king size headboard and footboard ...

The first customers that visited the showroom on Saturday morning asked me that question and I just broadly smiled and said something like “well if you’d come in twenty five years ago when I firs...

Yesterday I helped an extremely nice couple who were looking for a split king adjustable electric bed. They’d spent weeks dealing with another retailer that dominates Google and were going to make a pu...

I served a customer today who other than looking for a comfortable for his daughter’s adjustable base wanted a mattress that bent enough when the head portion was raised to its almost sitting up sixty degree p...

Every insurance company is different with their approval processes. We just received the go head yesterday on a double supreme adjustable bed with a latex mattress a full 99 days after submitting our quotation to th...

Not with any side rails we have been able to source so we don’t sell them. They strap underneath a bed which works quite well with a conventional mattress and box spring but not so well with an adjustable b...

An appreciative customer asked me that question in the showroom this morning. She’d purchased a queen size adjustable bed from us a week ago. I answered with a smile “yes I am the patriarch” (gosh ...

In fact this happened just a few days ago and after a quick in home consultation we determined that a queen size electric bed would easily work in a customer’s home. If you live close to the store or close ...

This is a peculiar one that until last Saturday I had never run into before. I told the family that we’ve never had an insurance company offer to pay less than $1500 towards the total for a home hospital bed a...

Well you sure can if you have enough space in your room. Last fall we had a customer who flew in from down east just to try our selection of adjustable beds with the intended end purpose of placing two double...

Most people don’t but I always tell customers they should try it and see if they like both the visual result and physical result when one or both head portions of their adjustable bed. By physical resul...

While you might think it is very noticeable I have never had a customer want to switch to a one piece king after trying a split king (two twin xls). Maybe once a year we have customers who buy an adjustable as a ...

All our adjustable bed models can be raised to 60 degrees from flat which is enough for many customers but the Prodigy Comfort Elite model can also articulated at a third point starting onefoot from the top of the b...

Leggett and Platt the world’s most respected manufacturer has stopped making split queens in this unusual size. This is not a bad thing because mattresses, sheets and mattress protectors in this size were very...

My first recommendation is to have the total height from the floor of your mattress as low as is required to easily lift your legs into the bed. Our beds have a wide variety of replacement legs available that will s...

The weight of your mattress helps it stay in place particularly when you are lying on it but they can still slip off the bottom end so traditionally a retainer bar (like below) is placed at the foot of your bed and ...

Most adjustable beds have the option of purchasing at least a couple of different sets of leg heights. The leg height you need will change based on the thickness of your mattress (thicker mattresses will bring you f...

It's rare that the power goes out in most urban areas but it can happen and it's no fun for theuserto be stuck in a heads up position when they are trying to go to sleep. A UPS power supply can do trick for ...

Yes it can:) OurSplit Queen and Split King Supreme Adjustablescomeequipped with a "snore button" which should actually be called the “anti snore button”. When your partner is snoring sim...

If you're much taller than six feet this size can be just what you need in a split king adjustable bed. Each half of the bed is 36" wide (two inches narrower than half a king size) by 84" long ( four i...

You can buy them right here at Nine Clouds Beds. We have seven models of mattresses available in the 30" x 80" standard split queen size or the nonstandard size of 32" x 80" that was featured ...

Just think how much easier it will be to put on thatfresh fittedsheetwhen you've lifted the head portion of your adjustable bed and itshrinks the overall length thus allowingyour sheets to easily slip over b...

We seem to have had a run lately of visitors to our Mississauga showroom who have been talked into the wrong type of electric bed for their needs. In one recent example two daughters who had been talked into buyi...

Back this past spring a middle aged man and his mom visited the store early on a Saturday looking for a comfortable new twin sized mattress for her. They settled on an on sale Serta pocket coil mattress and ...

Yes we do! This feature is included in our Supreme model and it's never been more appreciated than by new Nine Clouds customer Marie this morning. I have never in my twenty years in the adjustable bed busines...

What does a wallhugger mean? While many adjustable bed bases lift your body away from the wall when the head portion is raised (and therefore away from your night table) all our best bases,featuring wall hugging eng...

We've never carried the American based Sleep Number Bed but we did give a local Canadian based manufacturer three prime spots in our showroom a number of years ago. We advertised them heavily in the Mississauga ...

A few times a year customers looking for a split pair ofadjustable bedswant just one of the beds to be able to go up and down. The second mattress set is a conventional mattress and box spring of the same size.Our d...

Poor Circulation: An Adjustable bed can help. Poor circulation produces all kinds of problems. Symptoms of poor circulation include pain and swelling in the legs, low energy, tired and aching feet, cramps a...