Surely the balloons burst?
You’ll get very few failures if you follow our inflating and knotting advice and treat them with a certain amount of respect. These modeling balloons are seriously strong and treading on one part will push the air away from under your foot and simply stretch the elastic membrane elsewhere along its length. Also, when you lay on the mat your weight is transferred across several supporting compartments so each one doesn’t take very much weight. Another issue with the balloons is that you do get the odd weak one due to the vagaries of the manufacturing moulding process, these will burst either when you try to inflate them or when you first sit on them. For this reason we always advise users to take a couple of spares. • What are the Balloonbed’s main advantages It’s light to carry – only 100g. It also packs away very small – 1/7 the size of a small piece of carry mat – it will fit in the palm of your hand. It’s comfortable to lie on – even more so than a normal air bed because the balloon
