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| DATE: February 10, 2010 |
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EFFECTIVE MATTRESS ENCASEMENTS
A Necessity for Non-Profit Housing
By Johan Bosman, Channel Director, Caber Distributors Inc.
Everyone deserves a safe, healthy night’s sleep and the assurance that their mattresses contain no bed bugs or harmful allergens. If your housing isn’t providing these basic expectations, the results can be extremely damaging to your tenants’ well-being, your facilities, as well as your reputation.
In today’s world of instant communication, people are taking photos of their bed bug infestations and the painful bites covering their bodies, and they’re also recording the details of their frightful experiences. The media, bloggers and websites dedicated to bed bug horror stories welcome this information and readily publicize it using real names and locations.
So, how can a non-profit housing provider prevent these damaging scenarios, extend the longevity of the housing asset, as well as maintain a high standard of safe accommodation and retain happy, secure tenants?
Effective mattress encasements can provide the much needed solution. But with so many encasements in the marketplace, what are the special features that comprise a superior mattress encasement?
Mattress and box spring encasements must provide total protection against
bed bugs and moreover, they must ensure that these bugs never escape or enter through the vulnerable zipper end-stop. Many encasements are designed with zipper hooks that eventually, due to continuous pressure and movement, bend and break away from the zipper. This tiny gap allows bed bugs to easily enter the mattress, their favourite breeding ground. Many months later, they escape to bite the sleeper and obtain their sole nourishment, namely human blood.
The best encasements are breathable thereby ensuring a cool, comfortable sleep, and are also waterproof, bed bug bite-proof and allergen-proof.
Heavy, bulky encasements take up much more space in washing machines and dryers, and thus require more energy and money to launder.
AllerZip™ encasements contain all the special features outlined, and even more – including affordability.
AllerZip™’s patented Bug Lock® provides a safety seal trench that is stitched around the zipper clasp , and the mirco-zipper teeth ensure an extra tight seal. Furthermore, its French doubled-stitched seams prevent the creation of small holes when the encasement is pulled due to excessive movement or pressure. No escape routes mean no bed bug bites!
As well, its Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) lamination is breathable, allergen-proof and biodegradable.
Award-winning AllerZip™ is manufactured by Protect-A-Bed®, the worldwide leader in mattress protection, universally recognized for innovation, superiority, and represented in 27 countries.
Today, non-profit housing is dealing with many challenges including the unprecedented rise in bed bug infestations. AllerZip™ mattress encasements are an essential part of the bed bug solution, and are distributed throughout Canada by Caber Distributors Inc., Markham, Ontario. |
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