How often and why should you turn the mattress?

It is very uncomfortable to sleep on a sagging mattress. To keep the bed cozy longer, it is recommended to periodically swap the bottom and top, as well as the headboard and footboard. There are other secrets to good sleep. How often you need to turn the mattress depends on its filling, the general recommendation is 4 times a year.

Which mattresses need to be flipped and why?

The correct answer is everything except water ones. It doesn't matter if the bedding is for children or adults, spring, cotton, latex or other.

Judge for yourself: any material has a fatigue limit, and elastic and soft structures “get used to” over time, remember their shape and are less springy. Even slabs of coconut coir and thick plywood are somewhat susceptible to fatigue.

When we turn the mattress over, we unload the “working” areas and transfer the tension to those that were at rest. Accordingly, the surfaces wear out more evenly, have time to rest and wrinkle/deform noticeably later.

Additional benefits from the procedure are ventilation, mold prevention, and also... This is an excellent reason to look at the bottom of the frame and sweep out small debris, apple cores (and other surprises from a child’s struggle with discipline), micro-scraps of thread, etc.

When to flip

No need to wait for dents to appear. You need to reposition the mattress in advance, and the softer it is, the more often.

The well-known manufacturer Askona recommends rotating the mattress every 1-3 months, changing the bottom and top, and once a year - the headboard and legs.

There is another scheme: change sides every three months, alternating the bottom-up rotation and the head-legs.

What to do if the sides have different hardness:

1. Coir works quietly for 3 months, i.e. the entire warm season for which it is designed.
2. In the fall, it is enough to move the accessory from the head to the feet.
3. It is better to keep the soft side for 1-2 months, then turn it in a horizontal plane and so on - from November to April.
4. In May, you need to change the winter side to the summer side.

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Single-sided mattresses

Obviously, the bottom of such bedding is not suitable for sleeping, and the soft part will not lie on the frame supports. Therefore, they cannot change the top and bottom. The same applies to the filling of sofas: turning them “back out” will not work. Therefore, such bedding parts should be chosen especially carefully, giving preference to spring structures with independent elements and with latex, anatomical / orthopedic foam or other modern artificial filler.

To extend the life of a one-sided mattress, it needs to be turned “head to toe” at least twice a year. In the case of a sofa, there is only one option - to move the pillow, but this is not always convenient, for example, many cannot sleep with their feet facing the window. A more convenient, but less effective method is an orthopedic mattress cover of sufficient thickness. Due to its elastic texture, it will distribute the load more evenly, and it is also quite easy to shift it “with your feet up.”

How else to extend the life of a mattress

In addition to turning over, it is important to follow other rules:

1. Ventilate the room at least once a day, and be sure to let the mattress stand “naked” at the end of the week, after removing the bed linen.
2. Do not walk on the bed, neither adults nor children. Moreover, do not jump or run on it.
3. Protect the main cover with a mattress protector, which is much easier to wash periodically than to clean the mattress upholstery. At the same time, it is worth giving preference to absorbent models - this is the prevention of unpleasant stains, including from coffee, feminine troubles, etc.
4. Vacuum the mattress from time to time to increase ventilation and freshen the bedding. This will allow it to remain fresh longer, and its “aura” (the subtle smell that inevitably appears in any upholstered furniture) neutral. In this case, turning the head of the head towards the legs will not cause disturbances in sleep or headaches.
5. After purchasing, it is advisable to let the mattress air out for 24 hours, or better yet, for a week, so that all, even the slightest, odors brought from production will go away.
6. It is important to wash any stains immediately, using gentle products (powder, foam, etc.) before the contamination penetrates deep into the upholstery.
7. Do not pull a heavy (wider than 140 cm) mattress by its edging, decorative elements or ventilation washers/holes. It is recommended to use sewn handles, or even better, a long strap system.

A good orthopedic mattress protects against chondrosis, but this disease is a real scourge of the 21st century, when people almost never take their eyes off computers and smartphones while solving work, everyday tasks or relaxing.Such a mattress is expensive, so it makes sense to treat it with care and follow the operating rules in order to extend its service life and maintain its orthopedic effect.