I suppose it depends on how many airbeds you need to inflate and how big they are, but I always used a battery one from Argos (£7 or something, maybe less?) for my single airbed. Blew it up in a few minutes and the batteries lasted ages (depends how often you use it of course). I have heard the car ones are ok but not quite as portable of course...unless they have a very long lead you might end up having to pump beds up in the rain
I have a Cig lighter Air Pump which i must say is Fantastic and it was purchased from Tesco for about £8. And if it gets wet in the rain its only plastic its waterproof. They soon dry out!!!!
You can buy cigarette light extension leads to gain extra length, or if you have a car starter power cell these come with cigarette lighter sockets so you could use this
Quick tip, for faster inflation blow it up through the big hole for deflating the bed, then just top it up with the small hole, takes about thirty seconds
We bought a re-chargeable pump from the Early Learning Centre. It inflates a single airbed in about 20 seconds and when we let them down we use it to suck the remaining air out to get them flat.
Got a battery operated charger from Woolies as reduced in price, also works off elec and cig lighter. Tried it out last weekend, works well takes about 5 mins to inflate a double airbed with battery.
Would be interested to try the cig lighter attachment and see how that works.
My preferred method of inflating an airbed is to use a large footpump and a small child - about 9-10 years is perfect. Just leave child to pump up the beds, no incentive needed, to be able to lie on an airbed in a sleeping bag seems incentive enough! works every time LOL
Only fuel required is a bar of chocolate or small bag of sweets
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Hi Taluka, a car starter cell is one of these self contained emergency car starters. IT has a battery that can be connected to your car to assist in starting when flat. We got ours from Lidl's for a little over £20 a few months ago, also has three 12 cigarette lighter sockets which we use to power our 12v pump.
Aderynglas, that made me laugh, pity we dont have a small child that age! We will have to wait 7-8 years for out little one to grow up as if we used him now SS would probably take him away!
Our 13 daughter wouldnt be seen dead pumping up an air bed, the moans and groans just wouldnt be worth it. The only incentive for her would be money to spend on clothes or a holiday abroad!
Used the battery pump bought in woolies and found it did the job fine. Our little's one's teeth have stayed intact too!
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