- Hey, folks.
It's Lauren from Snowys here with the Exped SynMat Duo.
(upbeat music) It's seven centimetres thick.
It's an insulated mattress,
one of the most compact double options
at a fraction of the standard double mat weight.
And it also comes with its own pump sack.
So coming in at just under two kilos,
around 1.7-ish I think,
it's pretty awesome considering
this is a double sleeping mat.
Our pack dimensions are about 30 centimetres tall
by around about 18 centimetres in diameter.
So opening up the bag,
we have, first of all, our little pump sack here
and then we got our mattress.
On the inside of the storage bag,
we also have a little pocket here,
which is super nifty
because it holds our puncture repair kit
to make sure that it doesn't get lost,
especially when you need it.
The mattress will just roll out like so
and then we'll unfold it.
And this grey part is the bottom part.
So we're going to flip it over here
to make sure the orange part of the mattress
is on top, like so.
Right now, we're going to grab our pump sack
and we're going to head down to the valve end here.
So I'm going to fold the back of the mattress across here
so you can have a look at the valves
that we're dealing with.
So we have four in total.
So as you can see,
we have got an inflate valve and a deflate valve.
So the deflate valve has nothing inside of it
so the air can freely leave it.
On the inflate valve,
we have a small little rubber or silicone flange here
which means that when you're pumping the air in,
there's no chance of air escaping again.
So we have exactly the same two valves
on the other side of the mattress here.
And the reason is because, and this is pretty cool,
we've got this little welded seam here
right in the halfway point of the mattress,
which means that you can pump up one side or both sides
and tailor the tension
or, I guess, the firmness of the mattress
for either side of where you're sleeping.
So the pump sack on the end here
is sort of like a nice ultralight ultraseal material
that we've got here.
And on the end, we have at the end of this little tube,
is a cap here with an opening.
Now this is going to click
straight into your inflate valve, like so.
We want to make sure it's pushed in nice and tight
and sealed all the way around the edge.
Now these pump sacks can take a bit of getting used to
if you haven't used them before
and they can feel a little bit awkward.
So the amount of time that it will take you
to pump up the mattress
will vary from person to person
depending on how cohesively you get along
with this bag here.
So we're going to try and billow the air into there a bit.
Sometimes I like to just give it a bit of a blow
and then seal the sides together and roll it shut.
And now, as you can see,
that bag is now filled up with trapped air.
And we're just going to keep rolling
and pushing the air out of the bag
through that nozzle at the bottom and into the mattress.
I'm not sure if you can hear there
but there's air racing through that inflate valve.
So once you've emptied all the air out of the pump sack,
you then unroll it and unstuff it
and you do the same process again.
So as you can see, it can be a little bit time-consuming.
Exped do a small portable rechargeable pump
called the Widget Pump.
And for the purposes of the video,
I'm going to be a bit sneaky
and I'm going to pop off and use an electric pump here.
I'll be back in just a minute when this one's all done.
So now that the mattress is fully pumped up,
our dimensions are 197 centimetres long.
We've got 135 centimetres at the head here.
And as you can see,
it does taper down to the foot there
where we're at 105 centimetres.
The top and the bottom fabric are a 75 denier polyester.
And we've got on the top here
just this little honeycomb anti-slip pattern as well.
So the construction on the mattress is,
as you can see, we've got these little beams
that run through there called L beams.
And they're welded both from the top
and the bottom of the mattress.
And in between each of these beams,
we have got what Exped call Texpedloft,
which is 160 GSM, or grammes per square metre,
of insulation.
Now that is really tightly nestled
in between each of these baffles.
And it's also laminated
to the top and the bottom of the mattress.
So as it inflates, not only are you filling it with air,
but you're also pulling that insulation open
and expanding all of the fibres
which allows it to have really awesome insulating properties
between your body and the ground
which is awesome to have
not only in really hot weather
where the ground might be really hot,
but also in winter as well
where the ground is going to be quite cold.
And whilst we're on insulation,
it has an R-Value of 4.8.
Now I've pumped this up with an electrical pump
as I mentioned before,
and I can feel that the mattress itself
is probably quite tight in tension.
So a really nifty thing that you can do
with these inflate and deflate valves,
I'll show you here,
is when we pop open this inflate cap,
you can see that that green valve
is doing a really excellent job
of stopping any air from coming back out.
But with this little grey toggle here,
you can pop that into the valve
and gently press on the valve
and see if you can hear air hissing or escaping.
[Air Hissing]
And that essentially allows you
to really carefully fine tune the firmness of your mat.
So now that we've done that one,
released a little bit of pressure,
I'm going to jump on and do a comfort test for you.
So as I'm leaning on it
and I've got some pressure points here,
I can feel through the mattress to the ground,
but once my body is laid out
and weight is evenly distributed,
I can't feel the ground at all.
It's really quite comfortable.
I did forget to mention also before
that the mattress is seven centimetres thick
and I'm also a side sleeper as well,
so I always love to do a side sleeping test on mattresses.
And again, whilst I'm turning and rotating,
I can feel the floor through my hip and my elbow,
but once I lay down,
yeah, I'm very well supported.
There's no pressure points or anything
reaching through to the ground.
So I do think that this will be a really excellent option
if you're a side sleeper as well.
I'm not going to show you today how to pack up the mat.
It's really straightforward and simple, though.
You just simply pop off those deflate caps on both sides
then push all the air out, roll it back up,
chuck it back in the bag.
That's about it for the Exped SynMat Duo
which you can get online at snowys.com.au
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