Chiropedic bedding is a 100% family owned, award winning mattress factory that has been supplying quality mattresses to the people of Australia for over 25 years Try and buy in store or shop online to save time! up to 20 yearswarranty Chiropedic Bedding is a Commercial Member of the Australian Spinal Research Foundation and proud supporter of spinal research and the chiropractic community. A blissful sleep every night, guaranteed. “Most cost-effective improvement to my life” “We both love our mattress, it's everything they say it is” “So hard to leave this every morning. Best purchase made in a while” “I sleep so sound now and don't even know when hubby gets up in the morning” “Piece of mind that the environment has been considered every step of the way.” “After 3 days I have been waking up with no sore back at all” “Great company, great product.” “We received our Koala Queen mattress the next day and we both feel better already.”
“The free delivery went smoothly, it was easy to get upstairs” “Happy to know that we are also supporting koalas with our purchase” “My whole body feels as though it is resting better than ever before!” “Best night's sleep in 87 years” “The service was great but the mattress is greater! “Couldn't think of another product that I'd be happier to recommend”Easy to unpack and install on bed” “I no longer wake up with back pain, 100% stoked!” Just deep, restful sleep Get uninterrupted sleep with our Zero Disturbance Technology Have a partner who tosses and turns all night? Or maybe you’re the one who likes to practice sleep acrobatics. Whoever the guilty culprit is, our Zero Disturbance Technology™ will make sure you don’t interrupt each other’s slumber. It’s like sleeping in separate beds without having to give up the cuddles. You’ll wake up refreshed, energised and ready to conquer each day. You won’t find this luxury in a conventional spring, latex or memory foam mattress.
This is a world-first innovation only found in the Koala Mattress. Free 4 Hour Delivery We use the latest compression technology to pack your mattress into a convenient box. No more struggling to carry and squeeze a heavy, oversized mattress up stairwells and through doorways. And we’ll deliver it straight to your doorstep for free so you can slip it straight into your bedroom without having to enlist the help of the local CrossFit gym. Australia's highest reviewed mattress See what our customers have to say Take 120 Nights to Fall in Love Sleep, play and lounge on the Koala Mattress for 120 nights. If you don’t fall in love with it, just let us know and we'll pick it up for free and give you a full refund. No useless store credits, no re-stocking fee, no pick-up fee.* You’ll get back every cent of your money. And if you decide to keep your Koala Mattress you can rest assured we’ve got your back with our comprehensive 10 Year No-Sag guarantee.
*Rural customers may incurr a pickup fee. Is it a latex mattress?During our extensive research to create the perfect mattress we found the natural latex mattress had significant problems. It’s very heavy and retains a lot of heat. You can reduce the weight by just using a latex mattress topper, but that still leaves the issue of heat. Even the best latex mattress tends to run warm. That’s the last thing you want during our long, hot Australian summers. Even hybrid latex foam mattresses get too hot in our experience. That’s why we created an entirely new material for the Koala Mattress that breathes enough to keep you cool through summer, but keeps you cosy through the chilly winter. Is it a memory foam mattress?No. As with latex mattresses, during our research we found the standard foam and memory foam mattress had problems that prevent the perfect sleep. Like latex mattresses they tend to retain a lot of heat. And even using a memory foam mattress topper will have you waking up flustered and kicking off the covers in the middle of the night.
We also found high density memory foam can often mould to your body too much, making it difficult to move around. With the Koala Mattress’ Kloud Comfort Layer you’ll get the same spine support of a memory foam mattress but instead of acting like a straight jacket around your body, it’s more like a soft, gentle hug. The Koala Mattress is an Australian made mattress.That’s actually quite rare these days. You’ll find most mattresses are made overseas with cheap labour for bigger profits. But we believe it’s very important to have Australian made mattresses because not only does it mean more jobs for Aussies, but it also means we have full control over the quality of our mattresses. That’s how we can make sure that every mattress we make will give you the perfect night’s sleep. Is it safe to buy a mattress online?In fact, we believe it’s much better than buying it in a store. You see, you can spend five, ten, thirty minutes lying on a mattress in a store but that doesn’t tell you anything about how well you’ll sleep on it.
And even if you get a trial period you usually have to pay $50 to have it delivered, and then another $50 to have it picked up! With Koala Mattress we’ll deliver it FREE right to your door. Then you get to test it for 120 days before you make your decision. If you don’t love it we’ll come back, pick it up for free* and give you a full refund. *some terms and conditions apply. of Australians wake feeling rested! We conducted ‘The Great Australian Sleep Report’ to get a snapshot of the sleep behaviour of Australian adults OUR MATTRESS TECHNOLOGY IS THE SOLUTION Interested in a good night sleep? You can temporarily lift this restriction by proving that you're human:The 300 per cent mark-ups, huge profits, and hundreds of near-identical mattresses being sold under different names and prices – the bed you sleep on every night is taking you for a ride.A Fairfax investigation has revealed strong evidence the mattress industry is taking advantage of uninformed consumers to charge huge mark-ups.
The industry itself admits you're a sucker if you ever bought a full-price bed."I would say if we bought a bed for $1000, it would probably sell between $2400 and $3000," says Roger Wilson, who worked as Forty Winks' general manager for 21 years before retiring in 2007.Fairfax has also obtained wholesale price lists for mattresses. These reveal beds that retail for $10,000 are being made for as little as $1500. Mid-range beds, the type that cost $4000, are being manufactured in China for less than $400.Meanwhile mattress manufacturers are working closely with retailers to ensure shoppers cannot comparison shop for mattresses – by selling essentially identical beds under different names, and ensuring competing stores' mattresses have different names. Welcome to the mattress industry – where they know exactly how much a good night's sleep should cost. Inside a mattress factory. The cost of a good night's sleepHow much should you pay for a bed?Certainly not full price or RRP, admits Forty Winks CEO Con Dekazos.
"That's the nature of the industry. It averages around a 30 per cent discount basis, but I would argue that you'd get that almost every day from a bedding retailer."In the retail environment, there are always mark-ups. That's because of the bricks and mortar model – you've got to pay wages, electricity, gas. You can't compare the mark-ups on a bricks-and-mortar versus online model."Forty Winks has been in trouble for this before – the ACCC whacked them with an enforcable undertaking in 2005 for selling products far below the RRP.But even if you buy a bed on sale, the margins are still huge, says former GM Wilson. In addition to marking a bed up 240 to 300 per cent, the retailer gets a "rebate" from the manufacturer for each sale – about 12 per cent of the sale price.Why do consumers accept such huge mark-ups? Because all mattresses essentially look the same, and manufacturers carefully guard the details of what's in a bed, says one former franchise owner who spoke on condition of anonymity."
There is a lot of confusion in that space, because apart from looking at the mattress you cannot tell what's inside it. It's a trust issue, to be honest. You've just got to trust what the seller is saying." Manufacturers and retailers also work together to ensure shoppers cannot comparison-shop mattresses, says Wilson.Each individual mattress chain is given a range of beds by manufacturers including Sealy. But each bed is given a different name and price point for each retailer, ensuring no competing store is selling the same product.Fairfax found 131 different Sealy mattresses on sale at Snooze, Forty Winks, Bedshed and Harvey Norman under names like Trafalgar, Navi, Molise, Threadbo, Veneto, Hotham and Guthega. Every single mattress was unique and couldn't be purchased at another store."They are dealing with all the major retailers including all the smaller retailers, and they are providing an individual product to each store so they can say this is only available at our store," says Wilson."
They'll have a different colour, a different name, and probably a slight difference in the materials that are above the springs."Wade Gunzer, marketing manager at Sealy Australia, says the company tailors individual mattress ranges to meet the needs of each company's customers."Each bed is individual, so it get so it gets a different name. In some beds there might be minor changes, and in some there might be major changes."The former franchise owner puts it differently."Nowadays you could call it the Nurofen rule," he says. "That company was packaging drugs for various things, but they were all the same Nurofen tablet."So how much does a mattress cost to make?There are an emerging group of young upstart entrepreneurs who say they have discovered a secret: mattresses are much cheaper to make than you'd think."We thought – wow, there is a lot of margin in the middle," says Richard Li of his first impressions of the mattress industry.After calling a few factories, Li discovered he could make a bed thousands of dollars cheaper than the ones that are sold in stores.
So he did – he called it Greywing, priced at $1195, and says business is booming.Ringo Chan, founder of Ecosa, is another upstart. His foam mattresses cost up to $1350.He was approached by a major retailer – he won't say which one – who wanted to stock his range. But they baulked when they realised in order for the store to make a profit, they would have to sell it for a 300 per cent mark-up on the amount of money it actually takes to make the bed."They would have to get us to mark-up the price to cover everything," he told Fairfax.Stefan Papas makes OzMattress, an online mattress that includes springs and gel, just like something you might buy in Forty Winks. His top of the range sells for $2100; the mark-ups in-store are so big, he says, that it competes on quality with beds sold for $10,000."At some point the major manufacturers along with the major retailers decided to take the Australian public for a ride. It's a racket," he says.Wade Gunzer, marketing manager at Sealy Australia, rubbishes those claims.
There are no mark-ups, he says. "A lot of technology, innovation and work goes into making these."It's a really unique and precious industry."Greywing and Ecosa's foam mattresses are much cheaper, but they aren't without their own problem. Gunzer says they can never be as supportive as a spring mattress; there are also questions over the mark-ups they themselves charge.A foam bed can be made for less than $100 in China; if that's so, says a critic, how much of a mark-up are they charging?HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO MAKE A MATTRESS?It is difficult to work out exactly what's in a mattress, because manufacturers are very opaque about the amount of each ingredient that goes into a bed. Fairfax has spoken to two mattress industry insiders, who agreed to reveal the general details of some of their price listsA top-of-the-range bed. Total cost to make: less than $1500. Components include:A standard memory-foam bed, with three layers. Components include:A more complex multilayer bed, manufactured in China.