12" Swiss Ortho Sleep Mattress with Independently Wrapped Pocketed Encased Coil Pocket Springs for Comfort and Support

Michael Harper: Five years ago, I found myself needing a mattress urgently. I had moved out of an apartment with a built-in bed, so I had nothing to sleep on except for an old twin mattress made out of memory foam. It had a black hole in the middle that slowly leaked Hawking radiation.

I had the Swiss Ortho delivered to my workplace, and I took it home in a 2003 Chevy Impala. I let the front seat down and slid the box in at an angle. A small part of it stuck out the passenger window.

It opened up exactly as advertised. It was marketed as a mattress that you don't have to flip over, so I rotated it clockwise at regular intervals. It stayed firm and functional for some years.

Last year, it was beginning to sink down in the middle, so I decided to finally flip it over before a bunch of astrophysicists showed up to study the gravitational collapse.

Flipping it actually helped to make it more comfortable. The bottom of the mattress is of Completely Different material and texture, so it took a night or two to get used to.

This approach probably won't work if you have a spouse sleeping next you, unless they're onboard with this attempt to keep the...

United States on Aug 31, 2023

Patricia Marie SpencerPatricia Marie Spencer: My bedroom’s ordinary size & my old mattress is still on the floor beside my bed, so I’m not sure how well these pictures show. But a few things to say. I received this at 12:15-ish in the afternoon, this afternoon of writing. It’s now nearing 3pm by a few minutes. A close friend of mine, set it up alone in about an hour, having to rest for long minutes at a time in between. I think the worst part is that it’s a hugely heavy mattress. It sure is. Unmovable for anyone or ordinary or weak strength alone.

It simply unraveled out of the over-outer plastic covering and then we cut off the inner layer plastic, all while it was on the steel platform bed. It began expanding as soon as it was out of the first outer plastic so we had to get it out immediately of the second binding to finish expanding.

This full expansion was taken at just 1 hour & 20 minutes about but it basically had nearly full expansion after 3 minutes. Amazing! In an hour & 20 minutes though — I bought a 12” very firm queen — it got a lot tougher in quality of fullness over the top. It is presently growing just over 10” now. I have to double check though, I...

United States on May 14, 2021

Ludo: First and foremost, I find some of the negative reviews hilarious. No mattress under a thousand dollars will be expand, to the nearest eighth of an inch, exactly the advertised height advertised. This mattress, although advertised at 12 inch, in real life, will expand to about 10-11 inches. I am not sure what is people's obcession with the exact height of the mattress (I understand that it doesn't meet the advertised height, and that can be annoying). But I think those people are missing the whole freaking point of this mattress. Simply, It's a really affordable, well built and firm to very firm spring mattress, which is really good for heavyset people. I don't expect the springs or the mattress to develop the dreaded "pit" from me, 250lb guy, laying in the same spot every night anytime soon.

I was actually looking at a bunch of those "hybrid" mattresses, which are basically a spring mattress and a memory foam topper all rolled into one. They were so expensive, and all seemed like they used such a soft spring mattress layer, that they wouldn't hold well for me. Enter the DIY version. Just get a nice and firm or very firm spring mattress of your own, like...

United States on Dec 21, 2020