After you find your mattress and get it home then comes the fun part... getting the springs out of the mattress. To do this you need a good pair of bolt cutters, a pair of scissors, and a needle nose pair of pliars.
The first step is cutting through the covering over the mattress down through each side of the mattress with the scissors. Then unless you are very strong you may need to cut around each brad at least for a for a few feet until you can pull for all your worth. You may need to put your foot on the mattress while you tug because the whole mattress will probably come up as you pull on it.
When you get the top part off, flip it over and start taking the bottom cover off.
When you get the cover off the springs then you need to make a choice of whether to take the springs out now or whether you want to let them rust first before you take them out.
The spirals holding the springs onto the base are easier to take off before they rust, but the springs are bad to knot up in a pile that is kind of like working a Chinese puzzle to get loose. My choice was always to let them rust first, and then use the needle nose pliers to take the spirals off.
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