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Olympic Queen Size Latex Mattress Toppers.

Alice & Ron write:

Hi Pete,

We are interested in your latex mattress toppers, but need an "Olympic" Queen size, which is 66" x 80".  

Can you help us?

Thanks so much.

Alice & Ron 

 

Hi Alice & Ron,

The Olympic queen was introduced about 20 some years ago. 

At the time, I wondered if it would catch on. But, like any new product, it needed to be promoted and Simmons never did a good enough job of that.

That size came and went  faster than I expected.

 

I can, in fact, order a latex topper in that Olympic Queen size. At this point, it would be considered custom made.

So, you would take the price of the next size up...king...and add 25% to that for cutting it down to the size you want.

This would be completely finished and ready to go.

Another option is to get the unfinished, raw latex...in king size...and cutting it yourself, saving the 25% up-charge. 

You can choose to go either way with any of the latex toppers shown on this page.

https://themattressexpert.com/talalay-dunlop-latextoppers/

100% All Natural Talalay and Dunlop Latex Mattress Toppers ... themattressexpert.com Soften the surface of a too firm mattress. Insulate yourself from the memory foam in your mattress to Sleep Cool. Extend the comfort life of your mattress.

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Protect your mattress from perspiration and other stains that will void the warranty of your new mattress.

Danican Waterproof Mattress Protectors Sleep Cool and Won't Shrink washed in hot water...fits up to 18"

http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-protectors/

 

Thanks, Pete

 

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Mattress Warranty Info: How to Clean Stains from a Mattress.

Hello Everyone, 

These days, it's difficult to prevail in a mattress warranty claim. The deck is stacked against the consumer, when it comes to this.

Stains on the mattress, of any kind, will automatically void the warranty.

We would prefer that you use a waterproof mattress protector to start with, so that you don't have stains to deal with.

We carry the best we've ever come across and use it at home. Made by Danican, it sleeps cool, won't shrink, and fits easily to any mattress up to 18" thick.

Shown Here:

http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-protectors/

 

However, we have information for you on how to clean those stains, so that they won't stop you from having your mattress exchanged.

We have not tested these, at home, but we were told that they work, it will help level the playing field between you and the manufacturer.

Here is that link:

http://mattresstest.com/how-to-remove-common-stains--from-your-mattress-infographic/archives

How To Remove Common Stains From Your Mattress [Infographic] mattresstest.com Text Version: Blood Stains: Apply a small amount of hydrogen peroxide onto the stain and leave it on for several minutes, then blot it with a piece of dry and clean cloth. Tip: If the blood …

Delivery is Free and there's NO SALES TAX

 

Protect your mattress from perspiration and other stains that will void the warranty of your new mattress.

Danican Waterproof Mattress Protectors Sleep Cool and Won't Shrink washed in hot water...fits up to 18"

http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-protectors/

 

Thanks, Pete

 

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In Appreciation for your detailed mattress blog.

Appreciating the persistence you put into your site and detailed information you offer. 

It’s awesome to come across a blog every once in a while that isn’t the same unwanted rehashed information. 

Fantastic read!
I’ve bookmarked your site and I’m adding your RSS feeds to my Google account.

Moisture from perspiration causes premature wear.

Protect your investment with high quality, Waterproof Mattress and Pillow Protectors that sleep cool and don't shrink.

http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-protectors/

 

 

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Gotcha Covered Sheets Pure Collection - DISCOVER FINE BEDDING THAT FITS and AS NATURE INTENDED!

 

 

 

CHEMICAL FREE

As nature intended. 
The Gotcha Covered employee favorite!

It's hard to resist the super soft "buttery" hand feel of the sheets or the organic cotton jersey protectors that feel like your favorite t-shirt. GOTS certification ensures it's authenticity starting with the cotton gin all the way down the manufacturing line. Keeping with the collection's integrity, all products are undyed and only available in natural cotton and packaged in 100% bio-degradable bags. All mattress and pillow protectors are proudly sewn and packaged in the USA. 

 

AS NATURE INTENDED. BUTTERY SOFT.

GOTS certified sheeting is free from harsh dyes and chemicals with a buttery soft hand feel. Our protectors begin with GOTS certified organic jersey knit fabric that is laminated creating 100% washable waterproof functionality. 

100% Organic Cotton Sateen | 300 Thread Count
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THE ULTIMATE IN LUXURY

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Spoiled in the best way. Proudly made in America.

Our luxurious sateen is woven with extra long staple yarns which adds a gorgeous luster and supremely soft hand feel.  This collection is great for colder temperatures or for those who prefer a heavier fabric. Our tailoring has encased elastic around the entire fitted sheet with french seamed corner pockets to hide the overlocking stitches. Our extra attention to these details provides exquisite european style while extending sheet life.  

 

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Fixing a bad Kingsdown mattress with a Latex Foam Topper.

Tressa writes:

My husband and I built a new house a yr ago, we wanted a new mattress

For our room. We went to a furniture store going out of business we bought

The 700 series kingsdown  its the worse mattress we have ever owned. We both have back injures an this bed makes it worse. What if anything can we do about this purchase. 

Jerry and I prefer to sleep with a firm  surface with just enough softness to keep from older bones hurting.

Thank you In advance for your help. Sincerely Tressa 

 

Hi Tressa,

If you're asking how to go about salvaging what you bought, the best way is to flip it over and get a latex topper for it.

First, flip it over and dress the mattress. Sleep on it that way tonight.

Tomorrow, let me know as to the degree of comfort you need to sleep comfortably....(a little softer or a lot softer, etc.).

I'll also need to know your heights, weights and any physical ailments that need to be addressed.

This "trick" has extended the life of many bad mattresses. The average is 5 more years.

However, there are factors, like heavy body weight, that will shorten that.

Rotating a mattress like that one will make it more comfortable, but only of a short time.

Flipping it over and adding a latex topper will provide better support and comfort on a much longer term basis.

Considering what you describe as comfortable, the 2" Dunlop latex foam topper should be all you'll need.

Shown here:

 

http://themattressexpert.com/talalay-dunlop-latextoppers/

 

Latex Foam Mattress Topper

Thanks, Pete

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Mattress Delivery, Set-Up and Removal of the Old Set‏

Anne writes:

 

Hello-
Do you pickup the old mattress, once you deliver the new mattress? If not, what do you recommend?
Thank you, Anne

 

Hi Anne,

Yes....depending on what you're buying. 

Here are links to the items we sell that include White Glove Delivery Service, which includes set-up of the new mattress set and removal of the old set, anywhere in the Continental US.

http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-brands/simmons/beautyrest-recharge-classic/
http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-brands/simmons/beautyrest-recharge-world-class/

 

http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-brands/all-natural-latex/pure-latexbliss/

These next links include delivery and set-up, but not removal of the old set, anywhere in the Continental US.

http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-brands/simmons/beautyrest-black/

http://themattressexpert.com/mattress-brands/therapedic-international/therapedic-two-sided-flippable-mattresses/

These two above links include removal for those living along the surrounding NYC area/DC Beltway Corridor....including all of NJ & DE...Eastern PA, most of MD and Northern VA.

Everything else on our website is delivered UPS to the front door.

 

Most towns have a Bulk Item pickup day, where you can put your mattress out for pick up.

If your mattress is still usable, I suggest donating it to those less fortunate. Vietnam Vets of America, Volunteers of America, and other such groups will come to your home to pick up mattresses. Donating your old mattress will provide you a charitable tax deduction.

Thanks, Pete

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Walking on a mattress

Dear Mr. Cancelli,
Thank you for all the information you provide about mattresses. My question is as follows: we shouldn't hear a sound or noise if we walk on a new mattress, should we? You may ask yourself why on earth someone would want to walk on a mattress before buying it (let alone the fact that the salesperson probably wouldn't allow the buyer to do so!). Could you kindly tell me what you think about my weird way of testing a new mattress?

Dear Carmen Miranda,
(Yes, folks. That's how this question was signed)
The straight answer? A mattress is made to hold a human body in a prone position for the purpose of sleeping. Walking on a mattress as a way to try it in a showroom, should tell you nothing of any value.
I don't really have a funny answer, except to point out that the email address this question came from was a .gov....evidence that everyone currently holding office in the Senate and House of Representatives needs to be replaced next election.
To answer your final question, I think you're a nut, of which there are far too many in Washington doing nutty things with our money.
One more thing. You wouldn't be permitted to do that in my showroom. It damages the mattresses.


Thanks, Pete
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You do not have to be a victim when you shop for a mattress. Read. Learn.

 

Hello... Welcome to my Mattress Blog.

Here, we are committed to providing you the truth about the mattress industry and the products made available by our industry.

 

Mattress advertisements are bound by law to be truthful in their statements....and indeed, they are.

What they are not is, fully truthful. That is to say, via our society's conventional wisdom, many of today's ads, including most of the ones you hear from my industry, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. "Accentuate the Positive and Eliminate the Negative"...Isn't that something we've taught to our children for as long as I've been alive at the age of 61?...maybe longer.

 

This blog is committed to telling you both...the positive and the negative.

 

For too long, there has been a cheapening in the cost of making a mattress. Manufacturers cite the increases in the price of steel and in the cost of moving materials, thanks to the price of oil.

In and of itself, that's ok. It is what it is. The problem lies in the truths that are avoided in selling a product of continually diminishing quality. 

 

Over the last couple of years, the manufacturers have seen fit to lengthen the warranties on many of the more profitable items. In lieu of making them better, they've opted to promote to you the illusion of quality. So you see, the problem you face in terms of getting accurate information, is a problem created by the top down. Some of you believe that if you call the factory that made your mattress, you'll be given accurate information. Give them a call. Ask them what you will. You will find that you will be left in the same state of confusion you had before calling.

 

There are retailers who spend a tremendous amount of money on advertising. I think that many of you never stop to consider how much advertising costs. It is quite expensive. If you took a moment to contemplate the millions of dollars spent on continual mass media marketing...TV, Radio, Print Ads...you would have to wonder where all that money is coming from. It only takes a moments thought to realize that it is you who is footing that bill.

Through this constant bombardment of advertising, it has been learned that you will visit that store first. A good salesperson can sell you the first time in. He and his boss know that if you do not buy the first time in, you are not likely to return once you see that they have the highest price...with the exception of their lost leader come-ons...which the salesperson will do his level best to keep you from buying.

 

You have a reasonable expectation that the salespeople are well informed and wouldn't mis-lead you.

After all, what kind of way is that to do business. Surely they know, that sort of behavior will cause you to never buy there again. Not only that, but you'll warn everyone you know.

Large mega chain stores....the ones doing all the advertising that tells you they have the lowest price...don't care about you or your return business or what you might say about them. That Mass Media Marketing is what drives the business...herding people through the door. Believe me, their Mass Media brain-washing means much much more than you do.

 

There is one of these chains back east, that is spreading like an infestation to other parts of the country that actually has a rap sheet with their original state's Attorney General's office...as well as, an "F" rating with the Better Business Bureau. Their ex-customers are very boisterous when it comes to their displeasure....not the sort of people you handle badly and get away with. There are websites committed to exposing the terrible underside of this chain. 

I've traveled all over the country and there are none anywhere near this bad.

 

There are many large chains, nationwide, that use continual mass media advertising to drive customer's.

And while they all end up being the most expensive, I hear no complaints about being abused, as does that previous chain of stores.

Here, out west, we have a more comical approach. One, in particular, I find amusing. I also find him dangerous. He has an ad that tells you to replace any mattress that is 8 years old. And while he doesn't say it, the inference is that it needs to be replace if it is 8 years old or older.

An 8 year old mattress may, very well, need replacing. The cheapening of mattresses made today, began about 11 years ago. If you have a mattress that is 10 years old or older, check with me about it before you automatically replace it...and most certainly if you're only consideration for replacing it, is that it's time. Often, it can be made better than ever for only a couple/few hundred dollars with another 10 years to be had from it.

I went to visit this store. Their ads proclaim that they will beat anyone's advertised price or your mattress is free. Really. 

If you are one who may believe that you stand a chance of getting a free mattress, I'm not sure I can help you.

Anyway, I was waited on by an older gentleman...very nice...the kind of man that is easy to like and trust. He told me all about his mattress. He spouted of facts about them as if he truly knew he stuff.

If you didn't know the truth, you would never know that he was incorrect about a great many of those facts. He sounded sincere...and probably was, which what makes him such a powerful tool in closing a sale the first time in. He is fed information that he believes to be true. When he relates his facts to you, he does so with the utmost sincerity. 

 

The misleading information that you're being fed, for the sole purpose of "Making the Sale"...any sale, start with the manufacturers and then down through the retailers, until it is white washed and fed to the salespeople. Then again, not all salespeople are simply naive. Some are smooth talking S.O.B.s.

Both will trade you your hard earned money for a mattress that becomes less comfortable within months and needs replacing in a couple of years.

 

Again, Welcome to my mattress blog.

You will find categories with thousands of questions and answers. Most of the more common questions have been answered umpteen times. If, after doing some reading here, you might check out my other blogs....and/or, ask your own question.

 

My name is Peter. I've been in this business for 30 + years. It's never been as bad as it is today. Not too long ago, it was a truly legitimate industry. But, like the banking industry and the oil industry and the drug industry and the food industry which spawn the diet industry, The mattress industry is absorbed by greed. 

 

You do not have to be a victim. Read. Learn.   

 

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Mattress Advertisements - A MUST READ!

Most mattress ads have some degree of misleading information. That is to say that

 they highlight the positive aspects of the mattress and omit any negative 

information. Tempurpedic ads are classic in doing this. To listen to them tell

 it, you'd think memory foam was the best thing since sliced bread. The ads

 conveniently omit all of the negative information, of which there is plenty.
What they don't tell you is that it's comprised of 61 different chemicals, some 

of which, are toxic. They left out that it sleeps hot. They never mention the 

difficulty of getting out of the deep body impression it creates or the difficult of 

changing position. They totally left out the horrible smell it has when new and that

 smell is the dangerous off-gassing of the toxic chemicals they use.
And while Tempurpedic is one of the worst at producing forthright ads, I was 

prompted to write this because of the ads that infest the airwaves of Southern 

California, where I live.

There is a large mattress chain store in the L.A. area, hosted by a little troll of a

 man who ends his TV commercials with promising to beat anyone's advertised 

price or your mattress is FREEEEEEEE!
It's insulting enough that he believes that there are people out there that might 

come in to his stores for the chance at a free mattress, but lately, he's been 

trying to drum up business by coercing everyone into replacing their mattress if 

it's 8 years old.
He does this with disgusting ploys...sprinkling on a sponge what it supposed to be

 dead skin cells, which look like soap flakes, since skin cells are microscopic. He also

 pours dirty water on that sponge, representing the 25 gallons of perspiration we 

produce on a yearly basis....according to him. This fear factor coercion to having you

 buy a new mattress is topped off when he slices open a mattress to reveal a dust 

mite the size of 3 coils...which is, in fact, a microscopic creature. 
Just to be clear, the only way that amount of dead skin and perspiration makes it to 

the mattress, is if you use the mattress without covering it. The great majority of that

 stuff is absorbed by your linens and mattress pad...finding its way to the laundry and 

not into the mattress. 
Even college students who have been known to sleep on a bare mattress, have the sense

 to do so fully clothed...as I recall.
Dust mites are everywhere in your home. They collect on the surface of your mattress and

 dine on those skin cells. Where they are not, is inside your mattress. Dust mites used to 

breed in mattresses that were filled with natural fibers, like cotton. The synthetic materials

 used in most of today's mattresses is a hostile environment for dust mites. If you are 

sensitive to dust mites, vacuum the surface of the mattress when you strip your mattress. 

This will keep their numbers to a minimum. 
If your mattress is 8 years old, you may very well need a new one. The quality of 

mattresses has declined sharply over the last 10 years. However, if your mattress is 

older than 10 years, you might want to hang on to it. If all you need is extra comfort,

 add a couple of inches of soft, all-natural latex. Latex is the highest quality product 

available and does a great job, and will extend the life of your mattress.
My angst is with these snake oil salesman who have learned that they can sell you 

anything by telling you over and over again that you need it...that you want it.
It's called mass media marketing. But when the message is unrelenting, it's called 

brain washing.
Mark Twain said, " It's easier to fool a person than convince them they've been fooled".
The thieves and pirates of the mattress industry do the former. I spend my days doing 

the later.

Thanks, Pete

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