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Available Bed Guide

Easy Stepts to understand how to choose your new bed

A Practical Points

Every year you will spend 3000 hours in your bed which is over 120 days! This is why we at Available Beds want you to be as happy and as comfortable in this environment as possible and feel like you are getting the most of it.

B Size

Your bed should be at least 10-15cm longer than the tallest person sleeping in the bed.
Our mattresses are the UK standard in the industry

 
Imperial
Metric
Single
3 ft x 6ft3
90 x 190cm
Double
4ft6 x 6ft3
135 x 190cm
King
5ft x 6ft6
150 x 200cm
Super King
6ft x 6ft6
180 x 200cm

C Bed Posture

Too soft-body slouches; spine out of alignment

Too hard-body not relaxed; tension and pressure points

Just right! - support and give follow body's profile, keeping spine aligned

D Advice

Try this test to check for correct support:
While lying on your back can you slide the flat of your hand into the hollow of your back?

E Type of Mattress

Covers

Known in the industry as ticking there are a vast variety available here are just a few:

Quilting or Tufting
Knitted Stretch Fabric as our Temptations Visco Range

Micro Quilted surface typically

Tufted Mattresses used on our Majestic Pocket Sprung Range

Deep Fill Tufting on more expensive mattresses

Springs and Support

  • Open Coil and most widely used also better known as Bonnell Spring
  • Used on our Gold Crest and Monte Carlo
  • These come in different wire gauges
  • Pocket Sprung which is your higher end mattress
Fillings & Comfort

Quality Fillings get used across our range from Polyester, Cotton, insulation layers of fibre as well as visco – elastic memory foam

F Types of Bases

END DRAWER
2 DRAWERS WITH
2 CONTINENTAL DRAWERS

END DRAWER WITH
2 CONTINENTAL DRAWERS
3 DRAWERS

2 DRAWERS
4 DRAWERS

SINGLE SIDE DRAWER
SINGLE 2 DRAWERS

G Care of your bed

  • Do not fold
  • Do not over
  • Do not use chemicals or detergents
  • Turn the mattresses regularly, for the first few months turn it over twice a month there after it should be turned once a month, unless it’s the visco Temptations which does not need any turning

H Useful Contacts

The Sleep Council
High Corn Mill
Chapel Hill
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD23 1NL
Tel: 01756 791089
Fax: 01756 798789
www.sleepcouncil.com
Email: info@sleepcouncil.com
Allergy UK
Deepdene House
30 Bellegrove Road
Welling, Kent
DA16 3PY
Allergy Helpline: 020 8303 8583
(from 9am to 9pm weekdays)
Chemical Sensitivity Helpline:
020 8303 8525
(from 9am to 5pm weekdays)
www.allergyuk.org
Email: info@allergyuk.org

National bed federation
Victoria House
Victoria Street
Taunton
Somerset TA1 3FA
01823 368008
www.bedfed.org.uk
Email: info@bedfed.org.uk
Back Care
The Charity for Healthier Backs
16 Elmtree Road
Teddington
Middlesex, TW11 8ST
Helpline 0870 950 0295
www.backcare.org.uk

Osteopathic Information Service
General Osteopathic Council
Osteopathy House
176 Tower Bridge Road
London SE1 3LU
020 7357 6655
www.osteopathy.org.uk
Email: info@osteopathy.org.uk