How do old people (i.e. me and DH) turn their mattresses?!?!?!

[WitchesofPainswick]

We bought a new mattress that needs turning every week. FUCK ME. It's SO heavy and nearly breaks our backs every time. But if we don't turn it, it DOES get lumpy and uncomfortable.

Wish I'd stuck to my Ikea shitty mattress.

How do other people/old people manage this?!!!

The only turning you need to do to that mattress, OP, REturning it.

Every time I changed the sheets I turned the mattresses over.
On our bed and dc’s when they were young.
It prolongs the life of the mattress.
However mattress manufacturers cottoned on to this and in recent years most mattresses can only be rotated and not flipped over thus halving the life of the mattress and meaning you’ll have to buy a new mattress twice as often.
When buying a new 6ft zip and link mattress in recent years, I wasn’t told that it couldn’t be flipped.
Because of my height the mattress gets saggy in the same place even if I rotate it.
DH is a couple of stone heavier.
Now we swap the 2 mattresses each time I change the sheets and rotate them to try and get rid of the sagginess.
We both love a firm mattress.
it’s just so annoying

Hypnos state to turn it weekly for the first 3 months and then seasonally. You can get no turn mattresses but they dont last as long.

I'm getting a no-turn one next time!!

My husband and I are gardeners and sometimes help out our elderly customers with this. It’s a think now that new mattresses need turning often for the first few months apparently. They are heavy!

Yes, that would be rather ironic, wouldn't it?!

Yes, I feel your pain. We have a super king. I'm 60, my DH is 70, it's a struggle. We do it every couple of months, I dread it.

We spent ££££ on a super king wool mattress from Dreams last year. You can't turn it which I don't like but it had to be rotated weekly for first few months. Now I rotate about every 3 months. DH and I are also old (67+75)and it's a struggle. We developed a technique though!

And if Bensons For Beds’ website told you to jump off a cliff, you’d do that too would you?

It can affect any guarantee you have. That's why people do it!

My mattress from M&S instructs me not to turn it. Just as well as I’m single unlike the mattress. I’m not sure I could turn it at all by myself.

So that might be an option for the future.

No, the company that sold me the mattress told me to turn it weekly.

As several posters had said this was nonsense, I was just illustrating that it is quite common advice on the 'big' bed companies' websites.

Jeeze. I live alone and I'm 69 with a slightly dodgy back. I'm in need of a new mattress, and memory foam doesn't work for me. What on earth am I supposed to do?!

Flipping a new sprung mattress weekly is normal for the first few months, then moves to monthly.

I do ours alone, its a heavy wool mattress king size. I clear the bedside cabinets, use the handles of the mattress to drag it off almost off the bed, then prop it up on its long edge as its stiff enough to balance. Then I gradually walk it down onto its other side. Every other month, I pull it down to the bottom of the bed and just rotate it head to foot.

DP and I do it for his parents, first both of them and now his mum. His dad fell over the last time we all did it together and it might have been one of the signs he was on the way out.

xH bought a mattress that has labels on it saying when to turn it: every 3 months. It's a KS bed & while I can do it myself, I appreciate any help.

Just how old are you, OP?

DH and I are in our 50s and 60s! I do have a bad back which doesn't help. Our bedroom light fitting is also quite low (and the bed high) so we can't 'flip' the mattress easily at all as it won't fit upright! It's INCREDIBLY heavy.

Jeez, I thought you said old!

No, I said how DO old people manage it? We barely can!

Mine gets turned when I move the bed. There is a lot of swearing.
My mattress is very comfy, there is a dent in the middle. I bet all the back experts will say that it will mess my back up, but it’s very comfortable, that dent. Back is fine so far.

Although, tbf, we feel pretty old. One with a hernia and one with a bad back. We'll be fucked in ten years!

We bought a no turn mattress. One half is deliberately firmer than the other. How clever we thought it was. Except my side is a bit saggy (DH is a bit heavier than me), but DH’s is too firm for me to sleep on. It was bloody expensive too but I can’t justify replacing it yet. So we bought a mattress topper instead which has helped.

i’d never be able to turn it myself though.

Lift one side and shove something like bolster under the edge as far in as you can.

Pause.

pull the mattress hard so it is off the edge of the bed and slithers to the floor and standing on the floor leaning on the bed edge

Pause

put a chair on its side next to the mattress and push it over onto it

Pause (the mattress should now be upside down on a chair on its side so it’s about bed height)

Pull the mattress onto the bed base

Pause

make the bed and have a large cuppa and cake

I used to be able to rotate my previous mattress okay, but the new one is heavier. There isn't any way of knowing how heavy it is until you actually have to do it! I have a footboard on the bed so I have to lift the mattress over that, I can't just slide it off the end. (I'm nearly 70.)

That's ridiculous! I've never heard of turning or rotating that often. I'd send it back and get an ikea one. Perfectly comfortable and no risk of injury from having to do that.