Comments on: You Can Still Find a Good Two-Sided Mattress

By: Jim Bailey

Jim Bailey — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:29:41 +0000

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Type “double-sided mattresses” into your search engine and you’ll find out where to buy them.

By: Jim Bailey

Jim Bailey — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:26:26 +0000

DON”T EVER buy a one-sided mattress. No matter how often you rotate the sides they get deep dips in them. We’ve traded ours in twice at Sleep Train via their satisfaction warranty and manufacturer warranty and the new ones do the same thing in short order. We’re just going to chalk it up as “live & learn,” and buy a dual-sided mattress sinc we’ve NEVER had a problem with them for over 50 years. BTW, Sleep train sells only single-sided mattresses so you have no choice if you shop there.

By: Ron Rutkowski

Ron Rutkowski — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:53:38 +0000

Dear God help me find a two sided mattress. I grew up on Sealy. I was perfectly comfortable on a Sealy for 13 yrs during my first marriage. Which she is still using. 5 years ago I purchased a Sturns and Foster one sided which was supposed to be the greatest o e sided mattress for 2000.00 14 months of misery. Unloaded it for 4 hundred I was told no one manufactured 2 sided any longer. I was then talked into buying a very high end Sealy one side and told they had made major improvements. What a joke and a waste of another $1200. They both feel great for about 30 mins. Then u start slowly leaning to the center. No matter how angry you may be when you go to sleep. Your going to wake up in someones face because it is impossible for anyone to have ” my side of the bed ” and then you have to crawl out in the morning. I have not had a great nights sleep in years and wake often. And it’s common sense that the mattress companies are saving money. When will they listen to the consumer. I’d pay a small mint for a real mattress.
Sleepless in North Carolina.

By: Jose

Jose — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:35:48 +0000

One sided mattress….worst thing ever invented. this was a very bad idea. I don’t care if it cost more for them to make a two sided mattress fire proof or not, its about comfort. 3 years and $2500 later this mattress we have, is just crap. I will never make this mistake again. I’m in pain every morning and so is my wife. We both value our sleep like everyone else. This one sided thing, is one sided. Profitable for them and painful for us. some things that are old school, should stay that way, like Two sided mattresses. As soon as we are able to we will be searching to purchase and old school two sided mattress.

By: Judy

Judy — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:47:40 +0000

We bought a Stearns & Foster one sided mattress 3 years ago for 1250.00, with a 10 year warranty. Both sides of the bed have a valley from us sleeping there but the warranty says there has to be a 1 1/2 inch dent to activate the warranty. This is not possible because of the memory foam topper. The bed sags so much our back are hurting, but after we are out of bed for a short time, the bed looks flat—–thanks to memory foam. Stearns & Foster couldn’t care less. We’ll never deal with them again.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:10:16 +0000

I believe the one sided beds suck. I bought our first one a few years ago, and haven’t been satisfied. Basically, the surface never gets a rest (with two people), and thus has a permanent valley to it. Granted, this is a $600 queen mattress, but we have not been satisfied.
I understand some of the arguments, but the bottom line is that the mattress companies are trying to save money. Sure, it sounded good not to flip the mattress, but it just isn’t as good.
Obviously, the mattress companies have huge markups. I mean, what is the main difference between a $300 bottom of the line queen mattress, and a $1000 set? A few more coils and “nicer” fabric? They still have virtually the same manufacturing, shipping, and storing costs. So if all the difference is just fabric, then obviously creating a one-sided bed saves them huge amounts!
I’m trying to find 2 sided wherever I can. Particularly for beds for my small boys, because we all know there will be “accidents”, and having that second side will be valuable.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:55:39 +0000

^^Right you are Tina. Finally people are starting to get the picture. Only problem is they don’t make 2 siders anymore. Well, a few specialty manufacturers do, but they’re like 4 grand and/or are of similiar internal construction as the worthless one-siders. We’re all screwed. Seems the manufacturers cost-cutting put more money in their pockets than even they thought as we all buy crap mattress after crap mattress…

By: Tina North

Tina North — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:07:25 +0000

One-sided mattresses are the worst junk to ever be foisted on the public. We have had two different brands with boxsprings in the past 3.5 years, both at around $1,100 each. We have the appropriate number of slats and rotated the mattresses, all to no avail. Both brands seriously sagged within a year of purchase, to the point where the one we have now is almost useless. We will definitely be purchasing a two-sided mattress with boxspring within the next month. Whoever came up with the one-sided mattress concept should be in jail. In fact, we still own a two-sided mattress that is on our guest room bed that is 25 years old and still more comfortable then the junk one-sided ones. All we had to do for the old mattress was add a foam topper. That certainly didn’t work with the one-sided mattress.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:37:19 +0000

New, FIRM, 2 sided mattress, $500 out the door. New 2.5″ memory foam topper from Sams Club for $150. Put the two together and problem solved for only $650! Best of all i’m betting that the flipable mattress combined with the (replaceable) topper will last for years to come.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:30:21 +0000

Oh don’t worry Brian I am looking forward to the sagging. Its what I need . I don’t understand why everyone is whining that their one-sided springers have “sagged”. Huh? They are so stiff how could they? I want to sink in but can’t! And I don’t have any back ache/problems I just wanna be able to fall asleep and I couldnt on a one-sider. My Tempur is still very firm, but its the right kind of firm and I welcome the sagging thats gonna come! My favorite mattress was a Simmons “Maxipedic” Back Protector Elite from 1990. Even had a solid wood box and frame that tied the sides together not the cheap shit wire boxes and flimsy frames and wheels. I’m really tired of all this cost cutting. The manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves.