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It is “used virtually every night” and “I turn and flip it monthly and still get a good night’s sleep”.

“The edges are still straight and support me sitting on the side of the bed,” he provides.

Reader Sandy has had the identical Tempur mattress for round 23 years, costing just below £2,000. “It never needs flipping or turning. It has an outer cover, which you zip off and wash and apart from that, it’s maintenance free.”

Following again remedy in 2013, which left her with elevated nerve ache and sensitivity in her decrease backbone, it has been the one mattress she might sleep on. Therefore when happening vacation, she makes use of a 5cm reminiscence foam mattress topper: “It travels everywhere with me and it’s brilliant for sleeping on the plane too.”

“Memory foam is an amazing and hard wearing product. I applaud Tempur. The original mattress is still in my view the best,” she says.

Extend your mattress life

The secret to extending the lifetime of a mattress lies in a mixture of upkeep and safety, in response to these readers.

Alan Lucas, 71, from Surrey, has had his Vispring mattress for 18 years and places its longevity right down to turning it “end to end regularly with an occasional flip over at the start of its life” and placing “a mattress cover on the frame underneath so it doesn’t rub on the slat”.

The high quality of the mattress can also be an element for Alan and regardless of choosing the lower cost vary of the model at round £600, “it still feels comfortable,” he says.

“I think Vispring expects its mattresses to last longer than the average. Our mattress was a Vispring exclusive to John Lewis, as I recall it was traditionally made with what would now be considered old-fashioned materials, including animal hair,” he provides.

Reader Heather Erridge additionally swears by Vispring, who agrees that the important thing to having one is popping the mattress frequently. “It re-settles the mattress and stops the materials from settling into one place,” she says, guaranteeing “a great night’s sleep every night”.