Has it really been a month already? Time flies when you’re sleeping well.
I don’t know about the Best Mattress Ever, but I do know it’s the best mattress I’ve ever owned or slept on. From the first night to 30 days of sleeping on it later I have zero complaints about the quality, comfort or support level of the medium King my wife and I purchased.
I ordered it direct from the factory the Friday before Labor Day after 4:oopm. It arrived the following Wednesday. So basically really, really, really, fast. That alone was a nice perk.
Some initial impressions where, holy crap this box is small. Holy crap, this box is heavy. Holy crap, am I an idiot for ordering a mattress online?
Since the mattress came earlier than I anticipated I hadn’t put the bed platform I built together yet. Or taken the queen size we where currently sleeping on apart yet. So I did both those as fast as I could. It was a race against time. The time being 5:30. The time my wife gets home. I thought it would be rad to have the bed in place with sheets on by then. It was 4:07 when I began the race against the clock.
By 5:05 the old bed and platform where removed to the spare bedroom and the new foundation was in place. I flipped the box end over end from the front door to the bedroom, Got the box open and managed to wrestle the shrink wrapped mattress onto the new platform. Then came the cool part. Cutting it open and watching it grow. Within a few minutes it actually looked like a king size bed. I few minutes later the sheets where on(which I’d eventually get asked if I’d washed first. You have to wash new sheets?. Who knew. lol). 5:24. I had done it.
By 5:30 the bed had actually almost fully expanded to the correct king size dimensions. I’m never one to listen to directions(ask my wife) so I laid down. Not bad. Not bad at all. The wife came home and was pleasantly surprised by the new bed. She got in it and just smiled. A full contented smile. That’s always a good sign. We both tossed and turned and tried to see how much motion transfer there was. There wasn’t much. Not zero, but not much. We sat on the edges and they held up just fine. So we left the bed to fully inflate itself.
A few hours later(after I washed the sheets) we had the should we sleep on it discussion. Even though it was only 5 hours since set up there was no way I wasn’t sleeping on that bed. So we did. The next morning I woke up a little more refreshed than normal. The day after that and the day after that where pretty much the same. Just all around a better sleep than I had on our old inner spring mattress. It hasn’t cured my aches and pains but they have lessened a bit.
In the 27 days since the day after that, I’ve slept just as good if not better than those first few nights. I haven’t really noticed any break in if the mattress. It’s slightly softer but not by much. Being worried that the medium would be to soft for my wife I’m happy to report that she finds it perfect. For the record I’m 145lbs and she ways less than me, so where not large people. YMMV with the firmness levels.
So, apparently, I’m not an idiot for ordering a mattress online. Part of the reason is this site and this very thread. With out the knowledge presented here I would have been much more hesitant to purchase from a factory. Not saying I wouldn’t have done it but instead of being 90% sure I would have been 50% at best. The other part of the reason is truly trusting Brooklyn Beddings customer service. I never once felt like I was being fed a sales pitch. The had all the right answers and no hesitation when questioned.
So thank you Phoenix and Mario. Also thanks to all the people who posted here to help with aiding my decision, If anyone has any questions I would be happy to help answer them. I will check the thread from time to time.
