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Here's the very nice testimonial we just received:

"My husband and I have just one word for our new mattress - WOW! Let me rephrase that - WOW! Here is our mattress history: 1991 Husband brings home new mattress - claims that it's the Cadillac of mattresses, feels like the hood of the Cadillac! 2002 This time I pick out the mattress, A 'memory' foam not Tempur-Pedic, we spend the entire night pushing away from each other- mattress sinks in the middle- I cry, bed is returned. 2002 Couldn't get cash back - exchange bed from hell for Sealy pillow top. Still not comfortable. 2006 Mattress sinks from our body impressions 3" deep-I return according to warranty - exchange for top of the line, $1200 firm mattress, Can't sleep, wake up with stiff necks, buning headaches etc. 2008 Searched web for something less expensive than TP mattress, find your web - site, READ EVERY WORD including testimonies. So impressed by info, the price, and the 365 day return policy, decided totake a chance. Received mattress in just 3 days! Had three teen-aged boys take our old bed set to the garage, we'll haul it to a dumpster - we wouldn't wish that bed on anyone! We put our new HF mattress right on the floor. First night - COMFORT Second night - DEEP SLEEP From now on I guess we'll have to set the alarm instead of being awakenedby back and neck pain.We haven't slept good for years. I suffer from frequent migrains and get spinal adjustments from a chiropractor. I expect all that to change now that we've found our dream bed. Summary - No way are you getting this mattress back.

-- Thank-you from L. and G. Emery"

For more information about our mattress, see our Memory Foam Mattress page.

Posted by David Rosenberg at 08:14 AM | Permalink

In most cases, yes, our mattress does decompress out of it's compressed, vacuum packed roll in a matter of minutes (roughly 3 - 5 minutes or so as it did on the video we have on our mattress page), to its advertised 10" thickness.

We recently had a customer, though, who received his mattress in the winter who experienced a much longer time frame for the mattress to come back to it full height . After he opened the mattress, it recovered almost to its full height within a short time, but it took the top layers several hours to fully recover. He called to let us know his experience was different than that we showed on our video on our site -- and while we hadn't thought about this we immediately knew why it took longer for his mattress to recover. Winter was the reason.

Why does winter make it take longer for the mattress to recover? The answer is due to the nature of memory foam. Memory foam is temperature sensitive, which means that unlike ordinary foams it responds to temperature. Memory foam will get firmer at cold temps and softens at warmer temps (like your body temp, which is why memory foam conforms to your body in a way that ordinary bedding materials don't).

Ther is roughly 3.5" of our mattress, and this layer will get firmer during shipping during the winter to parts of the country in coulder climates (such as New Hampshire, where the customer described above resides). The cooler temperatures can affect the characteristics and responsive of the memory foam layer - it gets firmer. So it may take longer for the mattress to recover in the winter -- but once the mattress gets back to room temperature and the memory foam layers get warmed our memory foam mattress will recover back to its full height.

For more infomation on our beds, see our Memory Foam Mattress page.

Posted by David Rosenberg at 08:01 AM | Permalink