Mattress Care Tips: How to reduce mattress settlement

We explain how to avoid mattresses sagging, dipping and failing. Mattress maintenance is essential to avoid your mattress sagging or dipping. Here's our top tips for the perfect night's sleep!

John Ryan By Design is the UK's premier independent hand made mattress company. Ryan their founder explains exactly why you need to carefully examine spring counts and why a higher spring count may not be to your benefit!

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Hi and welcome to this guide about mattress settlement. My name's Ryan and I'm the founder of John Ryan by Design.

In this short guide, I'll be discussing settlement and how to look after your mattress. Depending on the mattress size and type and also how you use it, you may notice at some point that some areas are settled more than others.

There is no need to worry about this unduly it can be remedied and minimized. The most common scenario is where you have a king size or super king size mattress due to the increased sleeping area available the center of the mattress may settle at a slower rate than the areas used.

Mostly this is just because the center of the bed is not being used and it does even out with time. It's a bit like getting a three-seater sofa for two people and only ever sitting on either end. Inevitably the end seats will bed in quicker than the middle seat it doesn't mean that the middle seat is faulty it just hasn't been used as much. Eventually though, it will catch up with regular turning and rotation.

To look after your mattress and even out settlement your mattress needs to be turned once a month every month. You should initially flip the mattress over from north to south so you're sleeping on the opposite side of the mattress with your head where your feet were the previous month.

The following month you should flip it over again but this time east west meaning this time you'll be sleeping on the side your partner was sleeping on the previous month.

This regular routine will ensure that both sides of the mattress will settle evenly over time so remember it's flipped north to south one month then flip east west the following month and your mattress will serve you for many more years to come.

Sleep well!

[rc]

Really enjoyed watching some of your videos tonight, I’m buying a new mattress, and have been very impressed by all you have had to say, very sincere, knowledgeable and passionate about your product.

[mary]

Still can't see how the middle of the mattress is going to get laid on just by flipping or turning.

[cwuzii]

How vague can you be?

So it’s a spin and then a flip, not two flips!