how do you hate a sleep number...just curious
Well… I popped four air bladders during our 15 years… and for me my side was only comfortable if husband was ballast on his very soft side. It bolstered up the firmness on my side.
After he died… that bed was horrible. And trying to regain firmness, I popped another bladder.
The air mattresses inside the sleep number bed, are shaped much like pool mattresses. Except they’re much tougher. They use what they call I bar construction, where the the mattress/bladder is glued down into tubular chambers and technically speaking it’s not supposed to come apart.
But because I like it so firm, they did. it didn’t create a hole so the air went out, what it did was create a balloon effect. So the whole thing got puffed up. It was impossible for me to sleep on it. Because that big puff wouldn’t go down no matter how much air you took out of it — it was still puffy, and then it was way too soft and puffy. Also, once that I bar started to detach and fail, it was not unlike a Ziploc bag where it just let go. So it wasn’t puffy like at the top, which you could maybe work around or the bottom, within 48 hours it was the whole side of the mattress.
I went to my local mattress discounter and picked a mattress, and they delivered it in a week. I slept on the sofa for a week. I was never so glad to see something go out of my house.
So yes, it is possible to hate a sleep number bed. I have to say for my husband, he had degenerative disc disease in his back, lower back, and the flexibility of firming up the bed, or making it really soft worked very well for him. And, while he was alive I may have popped a bladder every three or four years. The bed was under warranty and I didn’t have to pay much to get it shipped to me. The warranty was a de-escalating one. Within five years it was 80 or 90% they covered 10 years it was 50% and I was very close to the we’re not covering it anymore For the last one. I think they only covered about $25 of it. I also didn’t buy a branded sleep number bed. They were making real sleep number beds, but they also made their own version which was a lot cheaper. It was also rather hard to find, which is probably how they got away with it.
But I understood completely why I was having failures when I bought the new mattress. I kept looking at medium firms and trying them out and not liking it and the guy there told me to stop looking at the tags just lay on beds and I laid on the bed and I relaxed right into it and as we were talking I almost fell asleep and I said I think I found my bed and he laughed and it was a luxury extra firm. And that bed is still comfortable five years later. So apparently I like firmer than what is possible for a sleep number to go.
) and later went back with spouse. That also allows one to verify over a couple of different days... we did our own pick up (had full size bed on truck).
