Introduction
Key Learnings
🔍 What you’ll learn:
✓ Why these pre-determined zones can’t possibly match your unique body
✓ The customer whose hip pain vanished days after ditching their expensive “7-zone technology” mattress
✓ Why spring quality and proper tension for YOUR weight actually matter
✓ The fact that premium brands like Hästens (yes, the million-dollar mattresses) don’t bother with zones
✓ How custom fitting beats marketing features every time
Transcript
[0:00] Introduction: Before dropping cash on a new mattress, consider that the real culprit may be what’s underneath.
[0:10] Real Customer Story of Bed Base Problem: We recently had a lady from Maroubra call us up, telling me her mattress was sagging. I told her to push the slats down to see if there was any flex in them, and then to take a video of that. I saw what we see all the time: cheap slats. They’re usually engineered wood, and they were bowing upwards.
[0:29] How to Identify Bad Bed Slats: I told her to push the slats in the centre of the bed base, where the centre column is, so she could tell me how it felt comparatively. She told me that it was a lot softer not in the centre compared to the centre – the centre was very firm. So then I asked her when she rolls into the centre of the bed, does she feel it’s firmer in the centre? And she said, “Yeah. There’s like a hump in the centre.”
This is a thing we see so often: it’s just flexible bed slats where they’re laying, and then they’re rolling up into that centre column. They’re thinking it’s something wrong with the mattress, but it’s actually the foundation.
What to Look for in a Proper Bed Base
- [1:22] Material: Look for bed bases that are made with **pine slats**. This means they have a natural wood grain and knots.
- Layering: They shouldn’t have any artificial layers (like engineered wood composites).
[1:38] The House Foundation Analogy: If you have a house and you build it on mud, and the house starts falling into the ground and cracking, if you knock that house down and build a new house on the same mud, then the same thing is going to happen. Similarly, if you have a mattress and you put it on a crappy base with flexible slats, you’re going to have the hump in the middle. You’re going to fall into it; it’s going to dip, it’s going to sag. If you get another mattress and put it on the same thing, the same thing’s going to happen. **Fix your foundation first!**
[2:13] How to Test if Your Mattress or Base is the Problem: To rule out if your mattress is the problem or not, put the mattress on the floor where it’s completely flat, and sleep on it tonight. You’ll know by tomorrow if it’s the mattress or the base.
For more insights, check out our comprehensive Mattress Guide.