The spring frame of a bed should correspond to a mattress to provide correct support. In certain cases, the spring frame inappropriate to a mattress, can lead to guarantee cancellation, to mattress damage, unsatisfactory characteristics and reduces a mattress life.

Use protective linings.

The high quality, an erased lining of a mattress (and one more for a spring frame if you wish) - will keep your bed fresh, dry and free from stains. A water-proof lining - good idea if there are children or pets in the house.

Let mattress breathe.

If you feel a smell of “a new product”, leave a mattress and a spring box opened and well aired. This new aroma of a product will pass in due course under the influence of fresh air At a mattress there should be a good support. Use a strong frame of a bed. If you has the full or royal size, will make sure that your frame has adequate support of the centre which will prevent a deflection or breakage.

Do not dry-clean a mattress.

Chemicals in dry clearing means or spot removers can be harmful to a fabric or the basic materials. Cleaning by a vacuum cleaner - a unique recommended method of cleaning. But if you have decided that cleaning is necessary, use liquid soap with cold water in a small amount. Never impregnate a spring box or a mattress.

Do not remove a label.

Contrary to popular opinion, it is not forbidden to delete a label, but the information on a label will serve as means of identification of a guarantee for a mattress.

Do not bend, do not put, do not stretch and do not throw a mattress.

If the mattress or a spring box are not made completely of a soft material (foam or a clap), or specially are not intended for turning, it, possibly, has a wire frame inside which as it is supposed, should not be bent. Therefore, do not bend your mattress or corners at the reference with a mattress, for example, passage of doors, etc.

Do not jump and do not go on a mattress.

Your bed is intended to sleep on it. Jumps or walking on your mattress or a spring box can damage internal elements and is possible cause a damage to you directly and another.

An air mattress can be inflated quickly for that extra sleeping space that you need. Convenient and compact, the air mattress has eliminated the need for traditional cots that used to take up corners of the spare bedroom, game room or garage. Deflate it, fold it up and stash it in a closet or under your bed. is also handy when it comes to camping.

Rather than putting your sleeping bag on the hard, damp ground, a self-inflating air mattress will deliver comfort like you’ve never known when sleeping under the stars!

An air mattress can be purchased in sporting goods stores, department stores, discount super stores, and from any number of online merchants.

Durable, handy and comfy, the air mattress will make a great gift for a wedding, birthday, graduation or holiday.

Sure, refrigerators and stoves are convenient, but you could do without. There’s always take-out! But your bed mattress provides a service that even your air conditioner can’t compete with.

Your mattress is largely responsible for your getting a good night’s sleep. Not only is it important for your bed mattress to help you sleep well, but it can also help you to feel better when you get out of bed in the morning.

If you’re not losing sleep because you’re tossing, turning and trying to get comfortable, than you’re sure to wake up feeling rested and free of aches and pains. That they make will help you achieve the goal of pain-free mornings better than others.

Whether you choose foam, inner spring, coil or air, choosing the right bed mattress is of major importance.

Don’t take it lying down!

A Latex Mattress offers extraordinary orthopedic support and it is naturally therapeutic. Known as the ‘do-not-disturb’ mattress, because it contours to the natural shape of your body and provides unbelievable support! Maybe your back pain is simply a result of sleeping on the wrong mattress night after night.

Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up one morning ? With a Latex Mattress, that has now become a possibility. You owe it to yourself to check out a Latex Mattress before another sleepless, pain-filled night goes by.

Not only is the Latex Mattress good for your back, it’s also hypo-allergenic and it is three times more able to resist dust mites than other mattresses. Plus, a Latex Mattress is environmentally friendly! This is a material that biodegrades naturally and contains no harmful chemicals.

Feeling better is just a good night’s sleep away

When shopping for a firm mattress (Mattress Firm), make sure that you take the time to test the mattresses. Lie down on different ones and see how they feel.

As awkward as this may seem, it is vital that you do this. After all, you wouldn’t buy a car without a test drive. Since your mattress is where you’ll spend 1/3 of your life, you better make sure that the one that you buy will adequately serve its purpose. Studies have shown that not getting enough sleep dramatically affects people and one of the keys is having a comfortable mattress that suits your specific needs.

Lie down, take a test drive and make sure that you don’t buy a mattress until you know that it’s the one for you.

A Mattress can be firm, medium, soft, pillow top, memory foam, with springs, without springs - the list goes on and on. First you need to decide what size Mattress you want, and then decide what firmness is best for you. Shop around. Buying a should not be a quick decision.

You spend way too much time in bed to take buying a Mattress lightly.

They don’t see why one should spend money on something you hardly ever see. What a mistake!

Mattresses are an integral part of your life and should not be ignored. They are undoubtedly one of the most important purchases you can make.

After all, you do spend anywhere from six to nine hours on them a day. Nothing impacts how well you sleep more than the quality of your mattress. Buying a mattress isn’t just a matter of comfort. Quite a few factors come into play.

The quality of the springs, foam and outer covering are all things that cannot be ignored. Most people try to spend as little money on Mattresses as possible and this leads to problems.

They are never really able to figure out why they feel tired during the day and simply chalk it up to daily stressors. It’s a sad fact, and one that can be easily prevented.

Sleepy’s offers consumers a customized comfort profile that shows which mattress will give them the best night’s sleep. And all they have to do to get their own personal report is to make a quick stop at a local Sleepy’s showroom (see list of locations) or book an appointment through the Sleepy’s website, http://sleepys.com/widgets/profile.php.

This advanced diagnostic technology, along with Sleepy’s highly trained professionals and its unmatched selection of mattresses, makes mattress shopping smart and simple.
And between now and September 2nd, consumers will receive two free latex pillows-a $260 value-with the purchase of any mattress priced at $799 and up.

Sleepy’s in-store diagnostic program utilizes scientific sleep research and a customer’s individual comfort profile to create a customized report of their ideal mattress. In just two minutes, this diagnostic system uses over 17,000 different calculations and 18 statistical measurements to match customers with their ideal mattress.

“Many of us don’t realize how critical choosing the right mattress is to getting a good night’s sleep,” said Mike Bookbinder, executive vice president at Sleepy’s. “Buying a mattress is vital to our overall health and comfort, and can make a huge difference in our customers’ lives.”
For a complete list of locations and addresses, please visit the Sleepy’s website at www.sleepys.com.

About Sleepy’s
Since their inception in 1957, Sleepy’s, the Mattress Professionals has believed in the overwhelming importance of sleep to our overall health. For 50 years, we’ve been using personal attention and expert knowledge of our product to provide each individual who walks into our stores with the perfect tool for a great night’s sleep. Now, having grown to be the largest mattress company in America with nearly 700 stores from Vermont to Virginia, Sleepy’s is more than just a mattress company — Sleepy’s is a name that America has come to trust with their comfort and well-being.
Keeping up-to-date on all the newest innovations in sleep technology, Sleepy’s boasts the country’s largest selection of name brands — including Sealy, Serta, Beautyrest, and Tempur-pedic mattresses — to fit any price range or comfort level. Sleepy’s even takes the guesswork out of buying a mattress with their BodyDiagnostics system — in just two minutes, this state-of-the-art computer system calculates your individual comfort profile to determine the perfect mattress for you. For more information, contact Sleepy’s corporate offices in Bethpage, New York at 1-800-SLEEPYS, or visit www.sleepys.com.

Sleepy’s stores offering a free diagnostic assessment are located in cities across the Northeast: Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and North Virginia.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a warning urging parents and caregivers to stop using the bassinets. That warning came eight hours after an exclusive ConsumerAffairs.com report about the dangers of the Simplicity bassinets, sold largely at Wal-Mart.

Although the agency acted swiftly after our story, critics say the agency has known about the dangers of these bassinets for months and could have prevented the recent death of six-month-old Kennedy Brotherton.

Below is a listing of Simplicity 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 Convertible “Close-Sleeper” model bassinets that are included in the recall. The model number can be found on a label on the underside of the bassinet.

RECALLED Model Numbers
3000CL 3112DOH6 3011WHE 9250A 3016LAU 3046GTM
3010BIJ 3112DOH7 3011WHK 3012SOM 3016MIR 3046HAN
3010HAV 3122BAN 3012BIJ 5750SAR 3017NCB 3047MON
3010NGS 3122TGC 3012OXF 3012TGT 3020SFB 3050LIL
3010TGT 3010BIJC 3012SFD 3013PRO 3025BER 3050SAR
3010WHE 343-8363 3040SAR 9250B 3025C 3060GFS
3040LAU 343-8399 3040SPR 3014LOL 3026CRT 3060TFS
TD2500 3045FEL 3050SWT 3014NGS 3027MIS 8393
3040WDS 3111DPC 3060BTL 3015GFR 3030SAR 3040SPRC
3045DRM 3012LLTC 3112BDY 3070MAN 3040CLA 3040LAC
3111ZOL 3050SWTC 3045OXFC 3112DOH 5730FKB 3045DRMC

An apparently faulty frame on the Winnie the Pooh 4-in-1 Simplicity Bassinet crushed and suffocated two babies according to family members and a police report. The Simplicity 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible bassinets had a removable flap of cloth that separated a side railing and the bed. Babies could slip through the space between the mattress and the railing.

The most recent death occurred last week on Thursday when Kennedy Brotherton slipped between the mattress and the side railing after the mattress came loose from the frame, her aunt, Melissa Brotherton, told ConsumerAffairs.com in a phone interview.

Kennedy’s body slipped through a space between the mattress and the railing until she dangled by her head on the lower bar of the railing and choked, according to Capt. Ron Copeland of the Shawnee Police Department in Kansas.

“She was laughing and smiling when her parents put her to bed,” Brotherton said. “They checked on her three times within an hour period. They were in the living room less than 10 feet away. She never cried.”

The first death occurred last fall when Katelynn Simon suffered a similar fate in the same bassinet. “The rail design allowed her to slip her legs through and as she kept inching out she slipped lower,” Simon’s grandmother, Lori Crammond, wrote in a complaint to ConsumerAffairs.com. “Finally, her lungs were unable to expand.”

The product appears to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and on Wal-Mart’s Web site. As of yesterday, ConsumerAffairs.com found the product at two Washington, D.C.-area Wal-Marts we visited. The bassinet comes in two different Winnie the Pooh fabrics with the product identifications 3123DOH8 and 3112DOH7 and sells for between $100 and $110.

Crammond wrote that she warned Wal-Mart of the dangerous bassinet last fall. “Wal-Mart is very aware of what happened but continues to sell it with a five star rating,” she wrote.

Wal-Mart has not returned two requests for comment made yesterday morning and this morning. Wal-Mart spokesperson Tara Raddohl said in an email sent to ConsumerAffairs.com Tuesday that they are “investigating.”

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is simply issuing a warning rather than a recall because SFCA, the company that owns the defunct Simplicity, Inc. and the products it manufactured, refused to cooperate.

“SFCA maintains that it is not responsible for products previously manufactured by Simplicity Inc.,” according to a CPSC press release. Simplicity’s lawyer, Rick Locker, has not responded to multiple requests for comment.

A phone call to the company’s headquarters was met with a prerecorded message stating “Simplicity, Inc. is no longer in business and we no longer service Simplicity, Inc. products.”

Using authority recently granted to the agency under a new law, the two standing commissioners were able to vote to release the warning. Further action may be taken against SFCA, Inc. to force it to recall the products.

An attorney for the Simons notified the CPSC a few days after Katelynn’s death about the dangers of the Simplicity bassinet, but never heard back from the agency, he told the Chicago Tribune.

Agency spokeswoman Julie Vallese told the paper they are still investigating the death of Simon because “there are still questions surrounding the circumstances of that baby’s death.”

But McDonald County, Mo. coroner B.J. Goodwin III told the Tribune there was no doubt the death was an accident. “It was clear-cut,” he said. “We all felt it was the crib that caused the passing.”

Both the Brotherton and Simon families said their goal is to warn as many consumers as possible.”Our main concern is to get the product recalled,” Brotherton said.

More than a million Simplicity cribs were recalled for the same reason from May 2005 to September 2007 in four separate recalls, after four children died and countless others were injured when they were trapped between the mattress and the railing.

The product also is under the Baby Disney product line since the bassinet is adorned in Disney’s Winnie the Pooh characters. Disney responded last night but has not returned a subsequent phone call.

Well, I have spent many years around both sales and service staff in a variety of firms in many industries. It always amazes me that so few salespeople ask enough questions to even know what they should present to the prospective buyer. I have walked away from many sales reps simply because they wanted to talk, usually, I believe, just to hear their own voice. But I don’t want to talk about bad sales reps today, but rather draw a comparison with two individuals that I recently encountered.

My wife and I had been considering buying a new mattress and box springs for a few months. We decided late one afternoon to go “shopping” for one. Now, please understand, we were not going to purchase, just shop. We needed to get data before we invested the money in a major purchase. After all, a person spends at least one-third of their life in a bed.

As we entered the first store, the clerk said, “Hi,” but quickly looked at his watch. Turns out we were there about 30 minutes before closing time. I told him we were just looking, and he smiled.

He asked us one question and started to expound on the merits of his products. After about 10 minutes of rapid disbursement of information, I told him thanks and we left the store.

Initially, we were concerned that it was too late to visit another store but determined we could at least try.

As we entered the second store, the sales rep greeted us very enthusiastically. I apologized that we were there so close to his closing time. He assured us he would be happy to stay as long as we needed him to do so. He began to ask us a variety of questions, most of which we had not even considered to be important in the process.

He invited us to actually test a few of the products that were in the store. We immediately selected a product that seemed to be what we wanted. I was sold and ready to buy. However, he continued to ask questions about our sleeping habits. I was impressed that although I was sending him buying signals, he still was working to properly identify my real needs. He genuinely wanted to solve my problem, not just sell me a product.

With the additional information we now had it was apparent we were pursuing the wrong product. He then offered a different solution and presented the reasons why this product was better. Remember, we were not going to buy that day. However, because this sales rep took the time to learn about us and our expectations for the product, not only did we buy, but we bought some new pillows as well.