A saggy mattress that sinks in various spots isn’t just an indicator that your mattress is old or in need of repair. A sinking mattress also means that you’re in for a world of discomfort, back pain and backaches, and sleep problems. To be clear, the best option is to replace a mattress that sags with a new one. However, if you don't want to buy a brand new mattress on the sole basis of a little sagging on your otherwise usable one, you can repair it instead. Even though traditional mattresses require more complex repair than something like an air mattress, which you can buy repair kits for, there are still ways you can check your current mattress and make small fixes to breathe some life back in to it. When tackling issues that may cause a mattress to sag, check for the following situations under your mattress. In many cases, adding a new piece or simply replacing an old piece can fix sunken in mattresses. If the mattress set you have includes box springs, check them.
Many times, if the box springs are worn out, replacing them will fix the sag in the top mattress. Buying replacement box springs is less expensive than buying a whole mattress set. Measure the mattress and cut a sheet of ½ inch thick plywood the same size. You may have to use two pieces, depending on the size of the mattress. Place the plywood between the box spring and the mattress, assuming you have a box spring. Check the slats in the frame under the box springs. Replace them if they are warped. Add one or two more for extra support, especially where the sag is. You might consider replacing 1x4s, the usual width of bed slats, with 1x6s or 1x8s to provide even more support. Put a piece of memory foam between the mattress and the box springs where the mattress dips. There is also a type of bladder, or inflatable pouch, available that pumps up like an air mattress that can be placed between the mattress and box springs where the sag is. These bladders come in different sizes for different sized beds.
There are several types of mattress toppers that can help with a sagging mattress. Some are less expensive than replacing a whole mattress set. Options include: a memory foam mattress topper, air mattresses, or down mattress toppers, which can be up to 3 inches thick. Keep in mind prices will vary depending on the thread count of the cotton, the amount of stuffing in the topper, and its size. Something else you can use above the mattress to make an impact are body pillows that are filled with down or polyester. They contour to your body and provide extra support for any sleep position. As with most things, prevention is easier than the cure. Here are some things you can do to help prevent your mattress from sagging in the first place. Unless you have a no-turn mattress, shift the mattress in three cycles on a regular basis. The first cycle entails rotating the mattress (without flipping it over) so that you swap the position of the head of the bed and the foot of the bed.
The second cycle is flipping the mattress over, but don’t do any rotating this time. The third cycle is rotating the head to the foot again, but this one differs from the first cycle since this time it will be on the opposite side of the mattress. Check both the box springs and the slats of the frame on a regular basis to make sure everything is still in good shape. The springs should have a fair amount of give but still be springy and the slats should not show signs of warping. Maintaining this strong foundation prevents sagging in the top mattress.Our Classic Feather Bed, or mattress topper, is a traditional three channel (75%) feather, (25%) down, blend designed for those that like a big billowy look and feel to their beds. You don't sleep "on it" as much as you sleep "in it". These beds are VERY thick, so thick in fact, that when you lay down on the feather bed night after night you realize you are sleeping in a very shallow channel created by the weight of your body while sleeping.
It's very cozy and warm. When you change the fitted sheet or Feather Bed protector, which we highly recommend you use, many of our customers take that opportunity to re-fluff their feather and down feather bed so it's like new. It's like sleeping "in" a warm cloud. Since this feather and down blended feather bed is made with Hungarian goose feathers it's not uncommon for a feather quill to poke through the 230 thread count Egyptian cotton when fluffed or jumped on. Although our all goose down feather bed, or mattress topper, is called a "feather bed," we have meticulously sorted all the feathers that could poke from the down clusters to bring you the ultimate in luxury, a Hungarian white goose down mattress topper of the finest quality and softness. After we try to remove the feathers from the down clusters we stuff them into a 12" baffle box design edged with a 2" gusset to allow the Hungarian white goose down to reach their maximum loft. A baffle box designed feather bed, or in this case mattress topper, is the most difficult design to manufacture and fill with a material, down clusters, that simply float away with your every breath.
These are very light, very soft, and very difficult to make but the result is unsurpassed in the world of down mattress toppers. Unlike our Classic three (3) channel feather bed our baffle box design prevents our Hungarian goose down from shifting. If you can imagine two flat sheets laid one on top of the other and then sewn together without actually touching each other, almost like twelve 12" pizza boxes sewn together and filled with Hungarian goose down, then you have some idea how difficult this design is to build. The top and the bottom sheets, which are actually called 'ticking' or sometimes the 'shell', are separated by another piece of fabric, approximately 2" in height, which then completes the baffle, connecting the two sheets. This design allows the goose down to reach it's maximum loft without being constrained by the outer shell, or ticking, of our goose down bed mattress topper. When it comes to our goose down beds fill power still means finer quality. However, when it comes to something that you sleep on, like a feather bed, and not under, like a down comforter, fill power means resilience and longevity.