How often and why you need to turn the mattress over

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

What mattresses need to be turned over and why

The correct answer is everything except aquatic. It doesn’t matter whether children’s bedding or adult, spring, cotton, latex or other.

Judge for yourself: any material has a fatigue limit, and elastic and soft structures “get used” with time, remember the shape and spring worse. Even a coconut coir slab and thick plywood are partially susceptible to fatigue.

When we turn the mattress over, we unload the “working” zones and shift the voltage to those that were at rest. Accordingly, the surfaces wear out more evenly, have time to relax and crumple / deform much later.

Additional benefits of the procedure are airing, mold prevention, and also ... This is an excellent occasion to look at the bottom of the frame and scoop up small rubbish, apple bits (and other surprises of children's struggle with discipline), micro scraps of thread, etc.

When to flip

No need to wait for dents to appear. It is necessary to shift the mattress in advance, and the softer it is, the more often.

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

There is another scheme: change sides every three months, alternating between a bottom-top and a head-foot turn.

What to do if the sides have different stiffness:

1. Coira has been working calmly for 3 months, i.e., the entire warm season for which it is designed.
2. In autumn, it is enough to shift the accessory to the feet with the headboard.
3. It is better to keep the soft side for 1-2 months, then rotate in a horizontal plane and so on - from November to April.
4. In May - you need to change the winter side to the summer one.

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One-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 can’t change the top and bottom. The same applies to the filling of sofas: turning them “back out” will not work. Therefore, such bedding should be chosen with particular care, preferring spring structures with independent elements and latex, anatomical / orthopedic foam or other modern artificial filler.

To extend the life of a single-sided mattress, you need to turn it “head to foot” at least twice a year. In the case of a sofa, there is only one option - to shift the pillow, but this is not always convenient, for example, many cannot sleep with their feet to the window. A more convenient, but less effective method is an orthopedic mattress pad of sufficient thickness. Due to the elastic texture, it will distribute the load more evenly, and it is also quite easy to shift it “upside down”.

How to extend the life of the mattress

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

1. Ventilate the room at least once a day, and at the end of the week, be sure to remove the bedding and let the mattress stand “naked”.
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 cover, which is much easier to wash periodically than to clean the mattress upholstery. At the same time, it is worthwhile to give preference to absorbent models - this is the prevention of unpleasant stains, including coffee, women's troubles, etc.
4. Vacuum the mattress from time to time to increase ventilation and refresh bedding. This will allow her to stay fresh longer, and his “aura” (the subtle smell that inevitably appears in any upholstered furniture) is neutral. In this case, turning the head to the legs will not cause restlessness in sleep or headaches.
5. After the purchase, it is advisable to let the mattress air out for 24 hours, and preferably within a week, so that all, even the most insignificant smells brought from production go away.
6. It is important to wash off any stains immediately, using gentle means (powder, foam, etc.) until the pollution has penetrated deep into the upholstery.
7. Do not pull a heavy (wider than 140 cm) mattress by the edging, decorative elements or ventilation washers / holes. It is recommended to use sewn handles, and even better - a system of long belts.

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