Rotating Your Mattress
The first thing to know about mattresses is that you should rotate them on a regular basis - much like rotating your tires on your car. During the first month of usage, it's recommended to do this on a weekly basis to provide even wear to all sides of the mattress. After that, monthly is recommended. Rotating means to make a 1/2 turn of the mattress while it lies flat on the bed.
Foundations

Foundations are made to work with your mattress to provide a comfortable sleep environment. When you need a new mattress (at least every 10 years) you need a new foundation. If you don't do that it would be like buying a new car body and putting it on the old car chassis.... you'd be in for a pretty bumpy ride.

Mattress Pads
Due to the fact that most of us (like it or not) shed our skin, sweat in our sleep, or bring to bed foreign objects (grains of sand) at times, it is also a good idea to protect your mattress with a mattress pad. This will prevent anything from working its way through your sheets and into your mattress, sometimes causing friction that will break down the mattress.

Mattress Protection Plans
We currently offer our Guardmaster mattress pad and mattress protection warranty plan to protect you in the event of any mishaps with your mattress. Please visit our Warranty and Protection Plan section for more information on this plan.

Comfort Levels
You will hear people talking about Comfort Levels. This refers to the firmness of your mattress. Please see below for a brief description of each level.

-FIRM: (Also includes Cushion Firm) Uses firmer padding, foam pads, and a tighter quilting pattern on the ticking to give a harder feel to the bedding, less conforming to the body, typically preferred by those people who sleep on their backs.

- PLUSH: Uses more cotton/polyester blown fibers, convoluted (egg crate)foams, cushy fabrics and looser quilting patterns to create a softer, more conforming-to-the-body feel to the bedding, typically preferred by those who sleep primarily on their sides.

- PILLOWTOP: Uses and extra layer of body-conforming padding, usually very soft feeling to the body (while still providing great support through the coil system on the inside).

- EURO PILLOWTOP: Differs from the Pillowtop by having the extra layer of comfort padding that is NOT pinched together on along its edges but is, rather, an extension of the mattress top. It creates a mattress with a lot of extra depth and extra comfort - right to the edge of the mattress top.However...this is sill in the "pillowtop" comfort level.