12" Inch Certified Independently & Individually Wrapped Pocketed Encased Coil Pocket Spring Contour Mattress - Full, White

My bedroom’s ordinary size & my old mattress is still on the floor beside my bed, so I’m not sure how well these pictures show. But a few things to say. I received this at 12:15-ish in the afternoon, this afternoon of writing. It’s now nearing 3pm by a few minutes. A close friend of mine, set it up alone in about an hour, having to rest for long minutes at a time in between. I think the worst part is that it’s a hugely heavy mattress. It sure is. Unmovable for anyone or ordinary or weak strength alone.It simply unraveled out of the over-outer plastic covering and then we cut off the inner layer plastic, all while it was on the steel platform bed. It began expanding as soon as it was out of the first outer plastic so we had to get it out immediately of the second binding to finish expanding.This full expansion was taken at just 1 hour & 20 minutes about but it basically had nearly full expansion after 3 minutes. Amazing! In an hour & 20 minutes though — I bought a 12” very firm queen — it got a lot tougher in quality of fullness over the top. It is presently growing just over 10” now. I have to double check though, I might have actually only bought the 10”. I’m not sure right now. It doesn’t matter, it seems a fine height to me.The instructions say to leave it alone for 48 hours. I might leave it alone longer. I’m looking forward to trying it during the coming week. It’s a Friday afternoon now.As for odor, I’ve finally had a chance to understand what possibly the awful stories are about in part. There are two medium sized desiccate packets born into the inner locked compression plastic binding the mattresses from unlocking. I had no odor throughout the unpacking, until we unlocked the final plastic and found the two desiccate packets. Then there was some typical odor like that — a chemical picking up the odors if whatever it’s wrapped in. My friend doing the work didn’t smell anything. I sprayed Febreze over it & it also made the Febreze smell like the desiccate, so that’s definitely part of what’s at work with all these odors. It’s a shame, because different mattresses are made with different cloth closing materials & desiccate will give any clothe a chemical odor.But it’s nothing really that needs to be noted except that I wanted to comment on what I’d learned. Right now, the light, lingering faintness of it isn’t going to last past my Febreze spray from an hour ago. Right at this moment anyone walking into my apartment would probably only notice Febreze.So I hope to update this next week after I’ve slept on it, to find how it’s comfort is — should turn out be an excellent firm it seems; very hard to find type besides. And also to relate what size I bought & how large it expanded after so many days of waiting.A year and a half later…. The mattress has been excellently firm over the past time and never really caved anywhere significantly. It’s still firm and very comfortable. This is with regular night to night use in that time. About now only I’m starting to notice that where I sit sometimes propped up with my electronic device working, it’s taking shape of a smaller less firm indent. Only slightly.

First and foremost, I find some of the negative reviews hilarious. No mattress under a thousand dollars will be expand, to the nearest eighth of an inch, exactly the advertised height advertised. This mattress, although advertised at 12 inch, in real life, will expand to about 10-11 inches. I am not sure what is people's obcession with the exact height of the mattress (I understand that it doesn't meet the advertised height, and that can be annoying). But I think those people are missing the whole freaking point of this mattress. Simply, It's a really affordable, well built and firm to very firm spring mattress, which is really good for heavyset people. I don't expect the springs or the mattress to develop the dreaded "pit" from me, 250lb guy, laying in the same spot every night anytime soon.I was actually looking at a bunch of those "hybrid" mattresses, which are basically a spring mattress and a memory foam topper all rolled into one. They were so expensive, and all seemed like they used such a soft spring mattress layer, that they wouldn't hold well for me. Enter the DIY version. Just get a nice and firm or very firm spring mattress of your own, like this one, and boy does this one work. Add a 2-3 inch thick memory foam mattress pad to it, and maybe a quilted mattress cover/pad to hold it all together, and for less than $500 (depending on pricing), you have a "hybrid" mattress that can rival just about anything up to $2k. You get a nice, reliable, and supportive firmness from this spring mattress, and with you memory foam, a soft, contouring layer, that's not so thick that you feel like you're laying on warm sticky honey.After 8 months of this combination, I can say that, for me and my SO (120lb girl), that it's the best sleep we've ever had, and likely one of the most comfortable beds ever (and I've slept on tempurpedics, which all seem to feel like you're sinking into hot sand). I am a back and sometimes side sleeper. She is a side and sometimes stomach sleeper. I think this combo accommodates all positions reasonably well, but especially for side sleepers, who need firm support, with some give.

Five years ago, I found myself needing a mattress urgently. I had moved out of an apartment with a built-in bed, so I had nothing to sleep on except for an old twin mattress made out of memory foam. It had a black hole in the middle that slowly leaked Hawking radiation.I had the Swiss Ortho delivered to my workplace, and I took it home in a 2003 Chevy Impala. I let the front seat down and slid the box in at an angle. A small part of it stuck out the passenger window.It opened up exactly as advertised. It was marketed as a mattress that you don't have to flip over, so I rotated it clockwise at regular intervals. It stayed firm and functional for some years.Last year, it was beginning to sink down in the middle, so I decided to finally flip it over before a bunch of astrophysicists showed up to study the gravitational collapse.Flipping it actually helped to make it more comfortable. The bottom of the mattress is of Completely Different material and texture, so it took a night or two to get used to.This approach probably won't work if you have a spouse sleeping next you, unless they're onboard with this attempt to keep the black hole's event horizon at bay for another year.The mattress discolors Very Easily, so I suggest you put a mattress pad between the mattress and your fitted sheet.It is recommended that you change your mattress every eight years anyway, so five good years out of this one has been just fine by me, especially for the price.