Straight answers about beds, from someone who isn’t selling you one.
We read the terms, the standards and the research so you don’t have to. Every figure comes from a first-party UK source, and every page records the date it was checked.
We don’t sell mattresses and we haven’t slept on the ones we write about. What we do instead is put eight companies’ small print side by side — which is exactly what no retailer has much reason to publish.
Three things shops are unlikely to mention
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What TEMPUR’s guarantee makes you pay toward a replacement if you claim in year eight — of today’s price, not what you paid.
What a guarantee really covers → -
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Standards governing how mattress spring counts are advertised. A higher number can mean less filling, not more quality.
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A slat gap that satisfies one major brand’s guarantee and voids two others. A base is rarely raised at the point of sale.
Beds and bases →
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What a mattress guarantee actually covers
Ten years rarely means ten years. The pro-rata scales, the sag depth you have to reach, and the exclusions that end a claim on day one.
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UK bed and mattress facts
Sizes, guarantee terms, sagging thresholds, slat gaps, trial periods and your rights under the Consumer Rights Act. Eleven sections, each dated.
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Twelve mistakes people make buying a mattress
Several of them void the guarantee before the bed is even made up. All of them cost money.
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Most mattress review sites have never slept on a mattress
How the affiliate model works, why the customer reviews are the shop’s own recycled, and why exclusive models leave nothing to compare.
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Does magnesium help you sleep?
No UK product may lawfully advertise magnesium for sleep. Here is why, and what the four trials actually found.
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The UK’s biggest mattress retailers
Dreams, Bensons, Emma, Simba, Silentnight and Nectar — compared on the terms rather than the prices.
Why this site exists
Almost everything written about mattresses in Britain is written by someone with a mattress to sell. That is not a scandal — it is how the category is funded. But it means a set of perfectly checkable facts go largely unreported, because no brand has any reason to report them.
None of what we publish requires insider access. It requires reading eight sets of terms and writing down what they say — then saying plainly when a confidently stated figure turns out to rest on nothing at all.
First-party sources only for anything factual. If a figure cannot be traced to the brand’s own UK page or to the regulation itself, we say so rather than repeating it. There are several examples of exactly that across the site.
Dates on everything. Terms change with promotions. Each page records when it was last checked, so you can judge for yourself whether to re-verify before relying on it.
We say when the evidence is thin. For a great deal of what this industry asserts, we could not find a study or a published standard behind it. Spring counts, firmness scales, replacement intervals, “orthopaedic” support — we say what we looked for and what we found, and we correct entries when someone points us to a source.
No invented testing. We haven’t slept on these mattresses and won’t pretend otherwise. What we offer is comparison and documentation, not a verdict we haven’t earned. More about how this works →