How To Care for Your New Mattress

A 2019 study revealed that Americans spend roughly 36 years in bed throughout their lifetimes between sleeping, reading, or playing on their phones. Yet, despite this, almost half of U.S. adults admit to not loving their beds.

Do you fall into this category? If so, consider investing in a custom mattress through Slumber Ease Mattress Factory. You will fall in love with your bed from the second you have your personalized mattress delivered and set up in your bedroom.

Learn how to care for your new mattress so you can remain head over heels in love with it. By taking the right approach to maintaining it, you will get a lot more life out of it and ensure it stays clean and comfortable for many years to come.

Check out our guide to caring for a mattress below, and begin using our tips today! If you have any additional questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to our team.

Protecting Your New Mattress From the Start

Dust mites and other allergens land on your surfaces constantly. An Ohio State University study discovered that the average mattress can have up to 10 million dust mites on and in it. If you don’t protect yours, it will be under attack from the second you welcome it into your home.

To prevent this, place a mattress protector on it from day one. This should stop most dust mites and allergens from reaching it and setting up shop.

After this, put a fresh set of sheets on your new mattress. Top it off with pillowcases and blankets to provide all the protection it needs.

Additionally, it should rest on top of a sturdy box spring or bed frame to deliver the necessary support. Learning how to care for your new mattress will stop it from sagging and enable it to maintain its shape while extending more than enough comfort and support.

Clean & Care for Your New Mattress Regularly

Covering a hand-crafted custom mattress with a mattress protector should provide more than enough protection from dust mites, allergens, and more. However, you will still need to get into the habit of taking the protector off to make vacuuming and spot-cleaning your mattress possible. Address any spills that occur right away to stop stains from setting in permanently.

Better yet, avoid eating and drinking in bed at all costs and shy away from doing anything else — painting your nails, putting on makeup, etc. — that could cause mattress staining to occur. You won’t have to worry about spending as much time cleaning it when you aren’t always exposing it to things that could stain it.

Rotating It and Allowing It To Air Out Occasionally

You don’t need to rotate your mattress every week, every month, or even every couple of months, but you should make it your mission to perform a mattress rotation at least once every three to six months. Rotating it will provide the following benefits:

• It helps distribute wear and tear more evenly
• It stops it from sagging
• It makes it more comfortable and supportive

Be careful when rotating your mattress, ensuring you don’t fold it and do more harm than good. Since it weighs an average of 50 to 150 pounds, call on at least one other person to assist you.

While you have the help, this will also provide the perfect opportunity to remove your bed linens and protector so you can allow your mattress to air out. Open the windows to improve the ventilation in your room and remove moisture and odors from it within just a few hours.

Knowing How To Care for Your New Mattress Will Help It Last Longer

With a custom option from Slumber Ease Mattress Factory, you will sleep better than you have in a long time, confident in knowing it is delivering support in all the right places.

However, to continue to enjoy its benefits, you must take the time to figure out how to care for your new mattress. Use everything you have learned here to maintain it to the best of your ability.

Reach out to us at (425) 321-0117 if you have additional questions about customizing a mattress and caring for it moving forward.