Review on 🛏️ Zinus Narrow Twin Mattress 6 Inch Foam and Spring / CertiPUR-US Certified Foams / Mattress-in-a-Box, Off White by Carrie Spencer

We recently changed our mattress to a double bed. We used to sleep on the COTON Simple Comfort mattress. It was a simple mattress on a Bonnel-type dependent spring block, we liked it, it was quite suitable in terms of rigidity and comfort. He served for many years, a layer of polyurethane foam sagged from old age, springs began to be felt, so it was time to change it. All the mattresses that we had before in the apartment and in the country were either on dependent springs or springless. I wanted to try a mattress with a block of independent springs. During the next trip to the IKEA store, we looked at the mattresses there, tried to lie down on several of them. IKEA has a good exposition of mattresses, there are demo samples in the context where you can see the internal structure of the mattress. And you can lie on mattresses. The thickness of the mattresses varied from 16 to 31 cm, and the price was from 6 thousand rubles to 47 thousand rubles. this is for our standard size 160x200 cm. After looking at the insides of the mattresses and trying to lie on them, I came to the conclusion that I didn’t need a mattress that was too thick. There, basically, the thickness is gained due to a thicker layer of foam rubber, and the springs are of the same height. Why do I need thick foam rubber, I don’t like the feeling of foam rubber in the mattress. As a result, the simplest of the mattresses on an independent spring block was chosen - the Hatlevik model. The price of an IKEA Hatlevik mattress after the recent massive price cuts in IKEA has become quite inexpensive. Previously, a size of 160x200 cm cost 8999 rubles, and now it is a thousand less - 7999 rubles, which, in my opinion, is cheap for a mattress with independent pocket-type springs. I have not seen mattresses of other brands with independent springs at such a price. The Ikea Hetlevik mattress is compactly packaged in a 30 cm diameter roll, with convenient carrying straps, so it is easy to transport. I brought it home in the trunk of an ordinary passenger car. He weighs, however, a lot - 25 kg. The package is opened with a knife, after which the roll is unfolded with the bottom side out. The underside of the Hetlevik mattress is gray hard, made of thin synthetic material, you cannot sleep on this side of the mattress. The instructions for the mattress say that after opening the package, the mattress should gradually straighten out and completely take on the correct shape and volume within 72 hours. The packaging says that the Ikea Hetlevik mattress is made in Russia, and there is a sticker with a four-digit production date code. "1705" means 2017, the fifth week - that is, the end of January. I bought it at the beginning of February. So I got a mattress quite fresh, just from production, one might say, bought almost "from wheels". Therefore, I didn’t even have to wait until it straightened out - immediately after unpacking, it took on an even shape. So keep in mind, you can choose a fresher mattress in the store :) The label also indicates the rigidity of this modification of the mattress - in this case, a tick is next to the symbol "three even stripes", which means that the mattress is hard. If there were three wavy strips - a mattress of medium hardness. It was better to unpack the mattress immediately in the bedroom on the bed. And I unfolded it on the floor in the living room, then I was tortured to carry it alone to another room - heavy, it bends in all directions. And it is not recommended to bend and break it according to the instructions, it can be damaged. The IKEA Hatlevik mattress cover is pleasant to the touch, natural, made of warm cotton fabric with a rough texture of thick threads. The cover has carrying handles and a zipper, so you can unzip and remove it if you wish. Here you can see the internal structure of the IKEA Hatlevik mattress - a layer of felt on the bottom, then an independent spring block with a density of 229 springs per square meter. m, then felt again, then a layer of polyurethane foam 25 mm with a density of 23 kg / cu. m., and a cover on top. The thickness of the Ikea Hetlevik mattress is 19 cm. Inside, there is a care label on the cover, it says that the cover can neither be washed, nor wrung out and dried, nor ironed, nor dry-cleaned. The question arises, why then remove it at all? ;) In order not to dirty the mattress cover, of course, we immediately bought a mattress cover in IKEA and laid it on top. The mattress cover can be washed at 60 degrees. Impressions from the operation The smell of foam rubber from the new mattress was not for long, a couple of days, and then it no longer bothered me. At first, the mattress seemed to me somehow too hard and not very comfortable. It was not that hard, but some kind of rubber-elastic. From below, the coccyx props up so much, as if under a layer of foam rubber there are not springs, but a hard board. He slept restlessly, tossing and turning. For some reason, when I tested a sample of the Hatlevik mattress in the IKEA store, it seemed to me much softer there, I was even worried that it would be too soft. It was written in the instructions for the mattress that at first the mattress may seem too hard, and then after a month you will get used to it;) And indeed, after a month, the mattress began to seem softer to me than it was originally. Sleep became more comfortable. As far as I know from the reviews of other people and from my own experience of sleeping on soft foam mattresses, it is still better to prefer a firmer option. On overly soft mattresses, my lower back hurt after sleeping. Now, after two months of use, my wife and I really like the mattress. I sleep well, my back does not hurt in the morning. I would not say that a mattress with independent springs is so strikingly different for the better from our previous mattress with a Bonnel spring block. Now, when my wife lies down next to me, the mattress still sways a little on my side. Unlike a bonnel, this mattress does not have a hard metal edging along the edge, so when you sit down on the mattress from the edge, you fall through. Well, in general, the mattress is like a mattress, I'm not sure that the next time I buy I will prefer an independent spring block to a bonnel. Ikea gives a 25-year guarantee on mattress springs, and even allows you to exchange a mattress for another within 90 days if the purchased one does not fit in hardness. Flaws The mattress is single sided, only one side is working. Ikea presents this as a virtue of not having to turn the mattress over. And it seems strange to me. Those mattresses that I have used before were double-sided, and moreover, according to the instructions, it was recommended to turn them over regularly in order to prolong their service life and ventilate. In general, while we like the Ikea Hatlevik mattress, we are not going to change it.