How do you drain a waterbed?
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with a garden hose
garden hose into the sink. it will even work uphill.
garden hose that runs into the bathtub or literally out the window onto the lawn.if you use a sink it could overflow b/c of the amount of water. Have fun!
With a waterbed pump and a hose. You can probably get a pump from a local waterbed store.
hi wow a water bed i haven't seen one of those around for awhile.
Usually there is a plug that connects to a water hose. make sure the other end of the water hose isn't plugged into the faucet or you will have a huge mess. Then let gravity do it's thing. Be prepared to wait awhile it will take some time for it to drain.
Have fun and stay dry.
Ask your waterbed dealer for a vacuum pump. It is installed between the water hose and the faucet and works off the force of the water leaving the faucet by creating a vacuum which will pull the water out of your waterbed.
The easiest way is with a garden hose that isn't any longer than needed.
I'm assuming that you have a fill and drain kit, if you don't, time to hit Wal-Mart.
Insert the drain kit into the bed, then screw the garden hose onto the adapter. You need to start a siphon going. The best way to do this is with a Shop-Vac, but you can do it by mouth. In either case as soon as you have water in your mouth, or in the Shop-Vac, quickly set the hose on the ground preferably pointing downhill.
The bed should completely drain within 90 minutes.
**CAUTION** Don't forget to unplug the heater before you begin draining the bed! Left unchecked a waterbed heater can get hot enough to actually melt a vinyl waterbed mattress, not to mention start a fire.
Siphon out the water. Stick a hose into the bed and apply suction until the water begins to flow. Once water runs be sure the other end of the hose is lower than the bed. The end in the bed should be placed as far into the bed as possible.
As the bed drains begin to fold the bed from the opposite end towards the hose to force all water to the hose. If things go well you should end up with maybe 10 gallons of water (85#) once the water will not siphon anymore.
A garden hose to the tub is a good way, or you could do like my kids did 25 years ago and just jump on it until you knock a hole in it and let it drain on the carpet and keep really quiet about it until the basement starts to smell!! Just kidding but a true story.
The above answers will all work fine. I have found out from emptying many friends water beds in the 90's a little trick though.
Step 1-Hook up the garden hose to the adapter on the bed.
Step 2- Hook up the other end to a faucet outside.
Step 3- Turn on the faucet outside until all the air is out of the hose. (Around 20-30 seconds)
Step 4- Turn the faucet until it is almost off.
Step 5- Unscrew the end of the hose from the faucet and drop the end of the hose.
Once the hose is full and you disconnect the hose from the faucet, you automatically have your vacuum. The water follows the path of least resistance which is out of the end of the dropped hose.
This way you don't have to buy a pump to get the water going. If you try sucking on the hose-even a short 10 foot hose- you are going to get a headache and possibly pass out. (Previous experience. Extremely light headed and got a bug from inside the hose in my mouth.)
As for making sure the hose is lower than the bed, that never mattered for me in the past. (The bed was where a bed normally is in a room. The hose had to be higher than the bed to go out the window. It still flowed fine once taking it off the faucet.
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