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Date: 25 April 2008 16:06:14
The Mattress Doctor came yesterday. He is a pixie-like little man with a white coat, a powerful vibrating hoover, a UV light box, and a practised line in patter. He gave me a demonstration of what was currently in my mattress (19 years' worth of nasty grey dust which is apparently dead dust mites and their, as he put it, excrement). Then he hoovered with his power hoover, inviting me to feel the bed for vibrations as he did so, brushed under all the woollen buttons that hold the mattress together, and ran the UV box over the mattress to kill any live mites, finally spraying with a sanitation spray which he said was organic and citrus-based.
As he needed to do both sides, and as our mattress is a king-size and very heavy one, he had to recruit me to help him turn the mattress over, which he assured me he usually manages alone. He also treated my precious goose-down pillow and advised me to replace other, cheaper pillows as it costs less than having them treated.
He predicted that I would have a very good night's sleep. I didn't, but I did enjoy the feeling that I was sleeping on an ultra clean mattress. And I didn't cough, which I often do on resting my head on the pillow. The whole thing took him nearly two hours, and was a much better job than I could have done with a normal hoover and a chemical spray. It did cost £70, but I probably won't do it for another 19 years.