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Our editors and medical experts rigorously evaluate every article and guide to ensure the information is factual, up-to-date, and free of bias. Updated August 28, Written by Lauren Fountain. When to Replace Your Mattress.
Here are a few strategies that you can try: 1. Use a Mattress Topper Purchasing a mattress topper can help you sleep more comfortably on a mattress that is sagging. Rotate the Mattress Unless the manufacturer specifically recommends against it, most mattresses should be rotated regularly. Replace the Foundation In many cases, the foundation of your bed can contribute to premature mattress sagging. Use Extra Pillows As a temporary measure to counter sagging, some people use extra pillows placed in the areas where the mattress is sagging.
What Causes a Mattress to Sag? When to Replace Your Mattress If your mattress is sagging, it may need to be replaced. Was this article helpful? Yes No. Learn more about Mattress Information.
Do You Need a Box Spring? By Logan Foley July 28, By Lauren Fountain October 5, By Austin Meadows September 21, By Logan Foley September 9, By Daniel Noyed August 27, By Daniel Noyed July 22, By Lauren Fountain July 1, Memory Foam vs. Hybrid By Lauren Fountain June 17, By Lauren Fountain October 2, By Daniel Noyed October 1, This is particularly true for larger mattresses in the Queen and King range, which may lack a much-needed integrated center support mechanism.
The greater size and more substantial weight bearing requirements of mattresses such as these makes additional support essential in the prevention of sagging, and it may be that your center support is missing or broken. Perhaps your mattress is too heavy for the foundation on which you have placed it.
To quickly determine if you have a support issue, place the mattress directly onto the floor and see if you and your partner still experience the sagging. If not, you will know that additional support is required.
Slats may need repair, or you may prefer to make an investment in a new box spring or foundation. Take care of yourself and make sure you are sleeping on a mattress that will not hurt your body. If you are not sleeping through the night or you are waking up in pain, your mattress is probably ready for retirement.
All of us can agree that quality sleep is essential to good mental and physical health. Being able to experience all stages and cycles of sleep each night helps ensure that the mind and body can function at an optimal level. If you are using your credit card, make sure if you are on a program with earning reward dollars back for the items that you purchase, be sure to double check if Sears is part of your credit card's reward program Bank of America Credit Cards and Discover have this program where you can earn nearly on the dollar-as dollar for for dollar or 64 cents for every dollar you spend.
Also look for promotionals and print out coupons if they will allow you to apply a coupon towards your mattress or any other item. I hope that this helps some of you. I am counting down the days when my mattress purchased at Right now we have 3 days until our new mattress from the regular Sears store will arrive and I cannot wait until we get this mattress and begin to sleep decently again. Also, I ordered a bed frame for I will order the box spring next month because this is already stretching my budget.
The shipping is But for those who cannot physically pick up their mattresses or boxsprings, Sear will deliver from their regular online retail store. The Sears Outlet will not deliver, but check it out because the prices are very good for the able bodied folks. And that's my 9 cents on that topic. Thank ALL of you for your helpful comments and thank you for this article.
Very, very helpful!!! It sags like you can't believe. Less then one year it was hollowed on both sidrs.. I called.. The 'has been' Company.
This is one of the first hits for fix lumpy pillow top. Thanks for the idea! Interesting to read at least one person has slept on their King the wrong direction. I've considered doing that but my husband wiuldn't fit. I was going to see if we had a warranty, but it sounds like they won't do anything. We also turned our king sized pillow mattress but did not turn ourselves. Not quite square on the bed, but no one sees our bed but us anyways Sorry, one more time. Has anyone cut open their mattress and done a repair by fluffing up the fill material or adding addition fill to make the mattress more comfortable?
If so, how did you restitch the mattress and where and how did you cut it open? Believe it or not, I have thought about doing this very thing all the while feeling angry for even needing to consider it for a mattress that is less than a year old. Personally, I don't think I'd care what my handy work would look like, as long as I could get a comfortable night's sleep, afterward.
Knowing what to stick inside the opening is the problem. I've been thinking about purchasing some foam which I hate the thought of using from a fabric store and sleeping on it in different positions, later to insert into a self-made opening. I've also thought about velcroing the opening so an adjustment can be made to whatever product I choose to use, periodically or as needed. I'm grateful for the roof over my head, food in the fridge, a car to drive and a family to love me but, I'll be darned if I don't still want a comfortable and healthy mattress to sleep on.
It is Dec 26, , I've seen your post twice now, if none ever figures this out please let everyone know, I'll even help stich it back up! I cannot believe that I didn't think of this myself! It works perfectly. I am looking for pillows right now to put under my mattress I can't believe how many of us have this problem no matter what price range or age of the mattress Also some of the most enTertaing reading I have had the pleasure of laughing to.
Good luck. Will let you know how the pillows worked. Sorry MattressMisery, I don't have a proven answer, but I'm in the same boat and thought about calling some local upholstery shops to see if what you are asking is possible.
I, also, have a sagging in the middle pillow top mattress. I put the blankets, folded into a triangle, under the mattress. It took the sag away. Now, I will sleep in it tonight and see if this worked. I have a foam topper, amnd a eg crate on my bed.. I wake every morning with hip pan, I can hardly walk.. To answer MattressMisery - there is a needle you can buy any place you buy your sewing notions.
The needle is a loop and is sharp as heck I woke up every day and said "I love this bed" - well, it isn't a love story any longer. I'll try the pillow tonight. Thank God for this site. I think I win the most spent on a POS mattress that is sinking in the middle. I bought my Kingsdown mattress Sleepy's top of the line brand in May of I wish I was kidding on the price.
For the past year or so it has been sinking in the middle to the point anytime me and my boyfriend re sleeping on the bed, we both start rolling into the center and end up almost on top of each other.
Okay, this isn't always a bad thing, but it is when it's 3am and you're trying to sleep! Any stains or damage automatically void the warranty. I was just talking to him last night about possibly just biting the bullet and buying a new mattress.
But it looks like from the stories here I would just be wasting my money to end up in the same boat all over again. I'm going to try the pillow trick tonight. If that doesn't work, I may be tempted to get a 10" futon mattress and throw a memory foam topper on it or something. I was also curious about the sleep number beds and memory foam and wondered if they also suffer the same sinking fate as the pillow top mattreses?
I'm sooooo happy to have found this site. About two months ago, I began experiencing acute pain in my right hip and the entire right leg upon getting out of bed. The pain would become less severe as the day wore on and I just assumed that it was part of the aging process.
It has taken me several weeks of observation to realize that it was not my age or body conditioning but my mattress that is the problem. It is a seven year old Serta Pillow Top set with a 10 year warranty. And yes it is sagging in the middle. Last night I removed not only the top mattress but the matching box spring. The main middle vertical slat had come a loose at the bottom and many of the horizontal slats had come a loose from this middle frame. They were just stapled not nailed together.
I took a hammer and nailed the loose planks back together. The sag is gone and the bed is feeling much better. I am not in a position where I can purchase another bed set right now, but when I do it will not be a pillow top.
There is less to a pillow top than the tradition mattress design and you can't flip it when it starts to get indentations from laying on one side too often. Another thing I've learned is that with the right type of support, I won't have to purchase a box spring. Agree with many who state that mattress companies are starting to make them to be replaced more often. There is a commercial that says that mattress should be replaced every 5 years. Their reasoning bed bugs, mites, dead skin cells, and bacteria from sweat.
Mattress prices have become so inflated in the past decade, it cost almost a thousand dollars to buy a bedding set now whereas 15 years ago you could a set for a couple of hundreds. After 4 spinal surgeries and at least 5 beds in the last 10 years, here's my take. NEVER buy a pillow top, that's a sure thing to cradle. Yep, floor hard. Ive flipped one sided beds over and slept on the side thats not for sleeping.
Actually that worked for a while. At least it was flat. Im looking into that but you can't try it before, sort of scary but the reviews are excellent as well as their customer service. Ive got a board under my bed, it's still not working. I just ordered online tonight, a bed wedge to see if I can place that over the depression and raise it.
I KNOW that these mattress mfg are scamming all of us. The quality, foam, and latex in these beds are breaking down quickly. My mom just bought a very firm Simmons and in 2 wks it's conforming?? TWO weeks! Told her return and exchange. Like that's going to help??? I don't trust any mattress reps and with good cause.
FYI these mattress Ive purchased have all been top tier, that's pretty telling. Wonder what happens to cheaper brands? These bed manufacturers need to be taken to court so we have some recourse.
Sorry for the rant but I'm in pain and it's bedtime. Here comes trouble Same story here folks! Thanks for the pillow support tip. I wake up every morning with numb arms and hands in addition to the onset of right hip pain since my 4 yr. As I was laying here aching and sleepless I googled "sagging mattress, hip pain" and found you guys! I also thought I was the only one. Just put two pillows between the mattress and the box and feel an immediate difference!
Thanks for saving me a lot of money. Opportunity for a better mattress design is knocking. I miss having real box springs that beds used to come with in the days of my youth. Followup to last week's post. The hammering of the box spring did not hold.
Came apart throughout the night. I considered purchasing slats online. But all were too expensive and none matched the measurements of my older bed frame. I finally measured my bed frame deducted a quarter of an inch and went to my local hardware to purchase eight 1x4 boards.
They charged. I came home and placed them throughout my bed frame and reattached the box spring center slate. I can happily report that the sagging is now gone. And the bed lays great. It is one inch higher than originally.
And it took a few days before the soreness left my body. But the bed lays wonderfully now. Interesting thing, with so many wood choices I was unsure of which one to purchase and the hardware associate pointed me to the one he said that was purchased most often to make bed slates.
Each piece of cut wood cost me less than 2. Much cheaper than a new bed set. Good luck all. I hope this helps. I am only replying so that hopefully later I can find your post and use your ideas! It is December 26th and the problem of sagging mattresses still continues! I laugh at the comments about being perched on the edges.
When I stretch in bed and lose my balance on the edge I roll into the middle, flailing like a turtle on its back and am pretty sure I have torn every tendon in my neck and shoulders trying to get out of it.
I have rigged up an advanced pulley system in case I really get stuck in there, also have stored 3 days of water close by in case that doesn't work. I say no to an America where millions of us are rolling into the middle of our beds at night! Have a good day all :. Thank you for the much needed laugh.. LindaB, love your post I am laughing hysterically! It is December 26th and people are still looking for ways to fix their sagging mattresses!
I bought a queen-sized Serta pillowtop mattress in I only noticed the sagging once I got married and was no longer able to sleep right in the middle of the bed.
Now I am one of the "side perchers". I feel like I am sleeping on the edge of a cliff. And I am only 29 years of age I used to love my bed still do, when I'm the only one in it!!
Will definitely try the pillow trick, and potentially the wooden slats. Thank you all for your input. While I don't wish this dilemma on anyone, it is nice to know I'm not the only one. I thought I was going crazy and just imagining the dip The beds today suck. They are definitely not made as they were years ago. There's only two companies making foundations with springs.
One is in Michigan and the other is in California. They all sag with very little support. I don't know how the sales reps at the bedding stores and furniture stores can look you in the face and lie to you that whatever bed you are looking at will be perfect for you.
I am telling you, I had a double sided pillow top Cal King and put it into our Cal King water bed frame and it was absolutely the most comfortable bed with no drags whatsoever. Only got rid of it because it was huge As well as the waterbed frame.
I regret it and as soon as I can I will look for a waterbed frame on Craig's list. No box spring needed. This is the answer folks. Do you place the pillows between the box spring and the mattress or on top of the mattress but under the sheet?
To fix a pillow top, I cut the pillowtop off of the bed and found it was the quilt topping at the very top that had the dips in it. I removed this and added a topper and its like new. Something I hadn't thought of. How might one determine if it IS just the pillowtop vs. And, can you give instructions for those of us who might like surgically remove the pillowtop what to consider; what to do; what not to do; etc.
I agree beds are crap.. I am going to cut mine open and have a look at it. If I cant' sew it back together -I'll buy a mattress zippered cover then a thick mattress pad. I can't see spending a couple grad for a repeat piece of crap. Great site.. Just watched a posted link here to youtube.. After reading many posts about using pillows to correct king size mattress sag , I realized I had a king size pillow topper lying around.
I took the pillow topper,folded it in half. It instantly boosted the bed in the center, and felt very comfortable to lay on. We'll see how this works for a few nights. Thanks to all for posting tips since I've been dreading dropping a bunch of money only to have the same problem again.
Same here but I have a 2" dip on both sides of my mattress and have only had the mattress for 5 years they always find a reason to get out of replacing the mattress!!! Such bs!!!! I have to do something bc Ive started seeing a chiropractor bc my bed is so messed up!!!
Thank you all for your suggestions I will be trying them all!! Ron I just read you cut the pillow top off and added a new topper? I thought about doing this, just wondering what kind of topper you bought and how it is working out?
I am on my 3rd mattress in the last few months and it is sagging also. I started with a king size Therapedic which was comfortable, but noticed about 6 months in that it sagged on each side where my spouse and I slept. After dealing with my husband's health issues and eventual death, I was finally able to call the store and got a replacement a few months ago. Unfortunately, after a few months, it too started sagging in the exact spot where I slept, just on my side.
I was able to replace that mattress with a different brand altogether, trying to avoid the same issue. New mattress was delivered about 3 weeks ago, and after the first 5 or 6 days I noticed the side I slept on was starting to sag already, so I have been switching sides every 5 days and now both sides have indentations in them.
Guess it will be time to call them again. Thank you for posting this! I just tried it and it feels like a brand new mattress. Glad I found your site before wasting a lot of extra money. Well I'm reading since am I roll, turn over All night long. This mattress went bad right away. Year old and expense wise "was top of the line" Suppose to be firmest built. Husband had cancer and we were gone to Houston for treatment for months.
I rotate this thing, I say prayers over it. Call on warranty today. Also start the pillow thing, ours appears the center higher. Neither of us is heavy. I had a horrible auto accident yrs ago and Surg. Husband had horrific cancer Surg past July. This is awful. Thank you all for sharing your stories. I now see a light at the end of this terrible tunnel I have been walking through for 2 years. My pillow top mattress I bought 4 years ago was the most expensive bed I have ever purchased.
I am plagued with a bad back and knees. Six weeks ago I had a total knee replacement and have been in hell trying to get comfortable on my sagging mattress. It has slowed down my recovery and I was getting seriously depressed. To solve this problem I thought, I bought a 4inch Memory Foam mattress topper. It was so conforming and I had no pain anywhere, well that only lasted one night. The dip in the mattress is "tricking" the Memory foam into just helping the sag suck me in more.
Although my neck and back feel better from the topper, my legs are in terrible pain. I do recommend the Memory Foam, but the your sag will still need to be addressed. It is not the problem solver.
I am trying the pillows under the middle of the mattress tonight. I will let you know. Thank you guys again. It's a miracle!
Thank you guys a million times! The problem isn't only with larger mattresses or pillowtops. I purposely bought a twin mattress for a platform bed that was extra firm with no pillowtop as my chiropractor suggested he's really back-to-basics. This was after I slept on a queen memory foam for about a year. For me, the memory foam started contouring into my body shape sagging! Horrible back aches! With the twin extra firm, I started to feel the sagging within the first month. I thought I was the only one "sensitive" to the sagging, but my daughter slept in my bed one night and couldn't believe how much it sagged.
I flipped it over and discovered that mattresses these days aren't meant to be rotated. When did that start? It was rock hard so I threw a comforter on it and had the best sleep ever! I slept on it like that for about 4 days and then felt silly, so I flipped it back over. The sagging was gone and it felt like new, but that only lasted for about 2 days. I considered flipping it over every other morning, but that would hurt my back even more than the sagging! I had been thinking about getting an expensive queen mattress to replace my twin, but now after reading all of these horror stories, I don't think I want to buy another mattress ever again.
The floor is starting to sound awfully good to me, although I did see online where someone made their own mattress by rolling and braiding rags together tightly.
Maybe I'll try that. It's simply amazing how many people are going through the same nightmare as we are. We bought a Serta iComfort mattress in king size complete with boxspring for a final cost of about 4, It sagged almost immediately within 10 days of purchase and hilled-up in the center. We were rolling off the sides nearly when we both slept in the bed. It was horrendous. I put up enough of a fuss with Mattress Depot so that the manager came out and lay on our bed himself I made sure to lie in the bed for an hour before he arrived so he would experience what WE felt when he lay down.
He was shocked that the mattress was so saggy and felt completely different than the floor model felt. We exchanged for a Simmons Something or Other notice my indifference now which was terrific at first, but within a month we noticed the same thing happening. I sleep with a pillow stuck under my hip. Its horrid. As bad as our experiences are, I have noticed something Our Recommendation We recommend this mattress for the following sleeper types:.
Back Sleeping Ideal for lightweight , average weight , and heavyweight back sleepers. Side Sleeping Ideal for lightweight and average weight side sleepers. Stomach Sleeping Ideal for lightweight stomach sleepers. Financing Options Financing options are available for this mattress. Visit Helix. Clarity Score 3. Visit DreamCloud. Material Foam. Visit GhostBed. Shipping Method Free white glove delivery. Hot Sleepers If you often overheat while you sleep, this mattress should help you stay cool.
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