About to spend £1,200 on a bed - help me - am I buying the right kind of bed?

[scoobysnax]

I have had a bad back since pregnancy and have decided that a new bed would probably help.

I am thinking of spending around £1,200 (a very large sum for me), to buy a bed that is 6ft wide,with pocket springs on a divan base, probably from John Lewis. I don't like the look of divan bases much but understand that the comfort is better than for a slatted base.

Does anyone have any advice on buying beds for me, has anyone spent a lot then regretted it, or wish they had chosen a different type of bed?

I am really trying to get this decision right, because I am not rich (just desperate with backache) and this is a lot of money to find on my budget - I don't want to get it wrong!!

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Ooh, scooby, you want alibubbles, she is the queen of beds.

Meanwhile I'll do some googling for you (I love a good project!)

Ok get a sprung base and cioled sprung matress with individual coils so you cant feel dh moving.

when you lie on it you shouldnt beable to fit your hand under the small of your back at all.

Hard is NOT good for bad backs
we spent 1000 3 years ago so your budget seems good.

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should make you fart too?

Advice from:
The Guardian
Homemaker magazine
The Sleep Council

Hm - that was about all I could find - the sites kept veering off into gardening and B & B after that!

HTH anyway.

coddy, you mean the hippo-and-duck jobby?

the anti roll thing? I dont know

will go and look at what ours is. IS fantastic.
had a crappy pine one before.

One thing I would say, is only go for orthopedic ect if you actually sleep on your back most of the time.

A few years ago I shelled out and bought a really good Silent Night orthopedic bed, but I ended up throwing it out last year as it was hurting my hips (I sleep on my side). It was just too hard for me to sleep on night after night.

We bought a 6ft, pocket sprung, divan bed 18 months ago and it was the best £850 we spent (House of Fraser Sale, Relyon bed). The Relyon website is a good source of info. We got the medium matress and both love it.

It is not the bed, it is the mattress. Invest in a good orthopedic mattress, the larger the better.

If you can go and lie on one before, all the better.

Hope you get a good night's sleep.

I would recommend a tempur mattress,We got one a few years ago and it is brilliant.It cost around 1100 but you get to try it out for 30 days and they'll refund if you don't like it.

Its a huge amount to spend but worth every penny.I got hte pillow aswell as I used to always get sore necks.I haven't had pain since.

Just google "tempur",sorry can't do links

DO NOT waste your money. You can get something equally as good and a third of the price elsewhere. As others have said anyway, it's the mattress, not the bed. Don't bother with the box spring as it's a waste of money and bounces when your partner moves. I fancy myself a bit of a bed expert and bought our mattress from Dreams for £3-400 (don't remember exactly). It's their own make and relatively firm. (tried out every mattress in the store) The italian "foam" mattresses are supposed to be very good for your back too, though I find them a little too firm for me (put one in our guest room for my parents).
Then put the mattress on the floor or on a futon platform. Or if you are handy with a hammer, buy two pieces of good quality plywood and connect them together and put them on four supports and bingo, you've got a support for your mattress.

Pocket springs are great, but we got one half price from Allied Carpets (?) for about 400 6 years ago. It's been very good value. One word of warning is don't sit on the side of the bed to tie your shoe laces etc. because the springs get warped.

No bed expert but we have a Sealy mattress on a pine bedframe and it has been very comfortable and the mattress wasn't extortionate.

From India Knight-the shops- (I know,I know!):
Vi-spring (pocket sprung) from £1000-£4000
Relyon (pocket sprung)from £1300 -£2000
Hypnos (pocket sprung)from £500-£2300

Personally we have 6ft (for nocturnal visitations of 3 small beings ) pocket sprung mattress on wrought iron slatty type frame. I dont have a "bad back" at home but nearly always wake up in the night ,in a strange bed, with stiff back etc so pocket sprung seems to be the business!
Agree with Bobthebaby-I have done this on my side-luckily only a small bit near the edge though!