Serta – So comfortable you’ll never count sheep again. For more than 80 years, Serta have invested in the highest quality and most innovative features to ensure that every mattress delivers superior comfort and support. Serta is one of the most recognised and trusted bedding brands sold in over 150 countries around the world and is now made in Australia and sold exclusively through Forty Winks. Explore our range to find out more about which Serta model is right for you. The Perfect Sleeper range not only helps assists you sleep soundly throughout the night but also offers you peace of mind. There is a point in your life when you realise that you deserve the best every night when you close your eyes. That is when you turn to Serta Avant Garde. Find the right Serta Mattress so you never count sheep again. Love it or Exchange it The Serta 90 Day Comfort Assurance Warranty is available on all Serta mattresses.In April 2016 a mattress recycling facility opened in the ACT.
Prior to the establishment of this facility approximately 18,000 mattresses were sent to landfill each year.Canberra residents can drop their old mattresses off at the Hume Sheds on John Cory Circuit from 7.30 am to 3.30 pm Monday to Friday to have them recycled for a fee. A convenient pick up service is also provided and can be arranged by calling 6260 1046.The ACT mattress recycling facility, run by Soft Landing, recycles over 90 percent of mattress components. An average mattress contains 12.5kg of steel, 4kg of foam and 12kg for a wood base which can be separated for recycling to divert thousands of tonnes of waste from landfill each year.The recyclable material is baled and stored, with the timber made into mulch and kindling, the foam on‑sold and used for carpet underlay, the fabric and felt padding used to make boxing bags and the steel springs sold as scrap metal.Every 10 tonnes of materials diverted from landfill is equivalent to taking four cars off the road
permanently, providing enough electricity to annually power 14.5 households, or saving enough water to fill 3.5 average backyard pools. were introduced to support the transition from mattress disposal to a social and environmental mattress recycling project. The gate fee at the Mitchell and Mugga Lane Resource Management Centres is in line with other jurisdictions.Pricing table of disposal optionsPhone (02) 6260 1046 to arrange pre-paid mattress pick-up from your home 7.30 am – 3.30 pm Monday to Friday. This service is available even if you will not be home at the time of pick up.Located on John Cory Circuit, Hume.Open 7.30 am – 3.30 pm Monday to Friday.Drop off at Mugga Lane Transfer StationLocated on Mugga Lane, Symonston.Open 7.30 am – 5 pm, seven days aDrop off at Mitchell Transfer StationLocated on Flemington Road, Mitchell.Open 7.30 am – 5 pm, seven days a week.*A base and mattress ensemble will be counted as two pieces. Top of the page ^
The ACT Government is committed to improving the accessibility of web content. To provide feedback or request an accessible version of a document please contact us or phone 13 22 81.Enjoy a great night’s sleep every night with our range of mattress toppers and overlays. Designed to add an extra layer of comfort to your bed, toppers and overlays also extend the life of your mattress, protecting it from wear and tear. Our range includes foam mattress toppers and memory mattress covers as well as a range of feather, microfibre and polyester styles. Wake up refreshed every morning with your memory foam mattress topper or overlay and experience a comfort which fits you!When the time comes for your toddler to graduate from a cot to a bed, the range of options can be bewildering. Should you buy a toddler bed or a single bed? An innerspring mattress or a latex one? Should you place it on an ensemble or a slatted base? And what kind of pillow is right if your child sleeps on his back, side or stomach?
Here we consult the experts on how to choose a bed that will best support your child's growing body and spine. Follow these golden rules to ensure a great night's sleep for them (and you). So says Dr Havard Bergby, a paediatric chiropractor at Sydney's Inner West Spinal and Sports Injury Centre. 'As with most things in life, you get what you pay for,' Dr Bergby says. 'When buying a bed for a toddler, parents have to consider the weight and age of the child. The transition from cot to a normal bed should happen between 18 and 36 months, after which a toddler should be in a proper bed with a proper mattress.' Sealy Posturepedic, the world's number-one bedding brand, recommends mattresses with an innerspring system. 'Innerspring mattresses, as opposed to pure foam mattresses, will provide the best skeletal support and conformance to the body while sleeping, and will not degrade with moisture,' says Sealy Australia spokeswoman Kim Bennett. Dr Bergby agrees that innerspring mattresses are better for kids than ones made of foam or latex.
'Foam simply does not have the same supportive properties as a sprung bed and latex has a tendency of shaping to your body over time,' he says. 'This is not recommended for children due to the fact that their body is constantly changing. So, memory foam beds are definitely not good for children.' Dr Bergby says children do not necessarily need an ensemble - a slatted base can be fine, as long as the slats are no further than five centimetres apart. Dr Bergby generally does not recommend bunk beds, 'mainly because of the many injuries I see as a result of kids either falling from or jumping from the top of a bunk bed. Boys, in particular, tend to love this.' Although they're all the rage, a toddler bed - which is essentially a frame that makes sure a child does not roll out of it at night as well as giving them a similar snug feeling to their cot - is something they will quickly grow too big for. 'A toddler bed can be a good alternative for children who are finding the transition to a ''big'' bed difficult,' says Dr Bergby.
'What mattress you use on the toddler bed is what matters. Between 18 and 36 months a child's spine is rapidly developing and growing, particularly at night. It's imperative that the mattress provides sufficient support to ensure this growth happens naturally. I frequently encounter families where the mum and dad have a $4000 bed, whereas their toddler sleeps on a thin foam mattress.' 'When it comes to sleeping, what matters for a child's spine is support,' says Dr Bergby. 'Both their spine and neck have to be in a neutral position, which minimises stress and allows the spine to grow without any restrictions. A toddler's spine can grow as much as 1.5cm during the night, which mainly comes from the intervertebral discs in between their vertebrae filling up with water. So the mattress has to be soft enough for them to be comfortable, yet firm enough to prevent them from completely sinking into it.' Dr Bergby says the potential consequence of children sleeping on an unsupportive foam mattress is that their growing spine is placed under stress for prolonged periods of time.
'A growing spine is very flexible and can adapt to stressors in daily life such as falls,' he says. 'However, this flexibility makes the growing spine more susceptible to more permanent deformative issues when placed under a certain load over long periods of time, such as 10-12 hours of sleep per night.' Dr Bergby says it is hard to predict what type of short-term problems might arise from sleeping on a foam mattress in the early years, 'However, there is no question that sleeping on a spring mattress allows for better and more natural development of a growing spine.' For parents who can't afford a good-quality innerspring mattress, Dr Bergby advises buying a second-hand one no more than two years old. 'I suggest to parents planning on having more than one child to buy a good-quality spring mattress and pass it down. If you buy good quality there is no reason why three kids can't spend two to three years each on it.' By law, all new beds must be treated for dust mites before being sold.
However, this does not mean that over time dust mites will not develop - especially given that every night a human body loses up to one litre of body fluid through the skin and mouth, as well as millions of skin flakes. Sealy Australia spokeswoman Kim Bennett says special mattress protectors are a good way to add additional anti-allergenic and moisture-barrier properties to mattresses. 'Most sprays, such as Glen 20, are not recommended as the risk (inhalation of a cocktail of chemicals) versus the benefit (possible removal of bacteria, dust mites etc) is just not feasible,' says Dr Bergby. As such, the best way to avoid worsening a child's asthma and prevent the build-up of dust mites is to: In general, a clean and tidy home (and bedroom) is a good way of controlling the spread of dust mites. How frequently should mattresses be replaced? 'It comes down to the quality of the bed and the size of your child,' Dr Bergby says. 'As long as they haven't grown out of it, a good-quality sprung bed can easily last as long as five years.