Has any one had a bad experience,as we have with a Harrison Spinks mattress

Partner likes mattress flat and hard. I like mattress soft and a bit lumpy, like what a good fat bed topper does. He's cold when he sleeps, I'm hot. We both snore! Now in separate beds, in separate rooms. Both got the mattress we wanted but something is missing. As they say, you can't have it all, alas!

You might say we're biased, but we think if you have the right mattress for your body type, which not only contours to your shape and supports your body in all the right places, but provides the right comfort, you don't need a mattress topper! The best advice we can give is to go to a showroom and try them out for as long as it takes. Two things you can look out for are: - Ensuring your hips aren't being pushed up or are sinking too much into the mattress - Ensuring you have some support on the backs of your knees from the mattress - if you don't this could be a sign that the mattress is too firm for you Seeing as your spend a third of your life on a mattress, with good mattresses lasting up to 10 years, it's definitely worth investing in one that's right for you :)

Ordinarily, I flip mine ("flip" sounds so easy!) every three months without fail: end-to-end, side-to-side, end-to-end, side-to-side. Repeat, ad infinitum. It does extend the life of the mattress and help it wear more evenly. (Did I mention I once worked for a mattress company?) With new ones and plush "mattress toppers" built-in and memory foam layers on one side and not the other... You can't really flip it over. Both sides are not the same. In the UK our mattress is sort of foam-core / layer-filled. (I don't think it has springs. It's not like the US mattresses I'm used to.) The top is the top, and the bottom is the bottom, and one does not sleep on the bottom. Consequently, I flip it from side-to-side, but not over, every three months. (If I'm making sense here.) In the US we have a traditional coil-spring-with-layers-on-both-sides mattress: no memory foam, no combination "stuffing," no mattress topper. And I do the quarterly thing with it. ...and suddenly I feel like an old lady who grew up in the '50s and learned housekeeping from Mom and my aunts and my grandmothers. O.o