How to maintain your mattress properly

Maintaining your mattress is crucial in prolonging the life of your mattress set and reducing abnormal body impressions. Flipping and rotating your mattress will extend the life expectancy of any mattress.

You should make sure to flip and rotate your mattress on a weekly basis for the first two months. For the next three months, flip and rotate your mattress every other week. After that period, continue to flip and rotate your mattress every month thereafter.

Once again, here is a simple way to make sure you get long ware out of your mattress. Once you know you want to keep your mattress, take a marker and put a "1" at the top left corner of your bed. Put a "2" in the caddy corner side of the same side of the mattress. Flip the mattress over. Place a "3" and a "4" in the same places on the other side. Every time you change the sheets or 4x/year make the next number in the sequence come up at the top left of the bed.

It is also smart to rotate your box spring head to toe every six months but don't ever flip your box spring!

Some thicker mattresses are being marketed as "never rotate" beds. If they are innerspring, latex or foam, we disagree unless they only have padding on one side. They need to be rotated to reduce the inevitable wear patterns, which develop on all mattresses.