Wednesday, May 5, 2010

How to Store a Mattress

Planning to move to a new house? Moving house is never an easy task, especially when you have heavy bulky items like a mattress to shift. It's important for you to plan properly where and how to store your mattress as a replacement can be both costly and time consuming.

Here a few tips you may find useful on how to store a mattress when you are moving to your new residence.

Molds

Due to particles, dust allergens and risk of molds breeding, mattress is best stored in a cool, dry environment. Imagine sleeping on a mattress that is full of minute particles and molds, it easy to get sick and the most certain way to get skin allergies.

Store flat

Make sure you keep the mattress flat when you store them away, instead of pulling up on its end. This is to prevent any unintended effects of the mattress springs. Beside, by storing in such an inappropriate way, the weight can cause undue stress to the side of the mattress, reducing the product lifespan significantly.

Keep it even

Besides storing the mattress flat, you should avoid any weights on the mattress. It could be the case when you are moving house, that you will place boxes of items on top of mattress due to space constraints. Avoid this practice as you may end up with lumpy spots and over a period of time, the spring will be uneven at different spots of the mattress.

Use the mattress

The final tip that you should remember is not to place the mattress in storage mode for too long and to quickly use them for sleeping instead. Trust us; you may be surprised to know that this will certainly minimize potential damage to the mattress.

The importance of storing a mattress properly is often underestimated by many. If you want to avoid ruining your beloved mattress, then you ought to learn how to take better care of them. Knowing how to store a mattress in the right way can save you much agony and provide you a more peaceful sleep at night.

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