How to know when you require a change of your mattress
Using a good quality mattress is obviously a great choice and wonderful feeling. It has lot many advantages. But as good days are limited, the service life of a mattress is also limited and almost gets over by 8-10 years after purchase and regular use. The mattresses not in condition may harm spine and body muscles, as a bad quality mattress often do for its users. Therefore it is important to know the signals and silent warnings of a sagging and worn-out mat so that you can feel and plan when you are supposed to change your existing mat with a new one. After all we spend one third of our life in sleep and hardly there is any other furniture, other than a mattress, which can contribute to sound sleep and ultimate health related well-being in the long run.
The general service life of a mattress is 8-10 years after it is purchased. Therefore if the mat is in regular use, and on the invoice date after that time, it needs to be changed irrespective of its outer condition. In general condition, an old bed-mat very often develops annoying lumps, peaks and certain valleys etc. which may not look very damaging but obviously will create hindrance for sound sleep and will effect adverse on the users.
There are some obvious signs which are to be taken as red alert from mattresses. These signals may appear in lesser or higher quantity, individually or with two or three together.
1. Development of a valley on the mat specially where it is regularly used and stressed
2. A sagging tendency of the mat at the middle third of the mat or along the sides where the users roll while lying on the bed
3. If the mattress starts making cranky noise
4. If the edges of the mat on use become soft and somehow non-supportive, these are obvious signs for edge breakdown and it is not recommended to use sagging mattresses because it might prove injurious to health
5. The users of the mat is suffering from back pain or neck stiffness almost at regular basis
6. The users are suffering from usual interruption at sleep whereas in some other bed they are enjoying sound sleep
7. If the users of the said mat starts suffering from regular sleep distortion without any medical discrepancy it results in poor sleeping condition; poor sleeping condition is one of the prominent signs for the requirement of a new mattress.
It is always good to check the mattresses, which is one regular use thoroughly once in a year. It will surely help to detect the problem area of mat in its initial state which will prove helpful in detecting the tentative date of replacement of the same.
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