What is the Proper Way to Turn a Mattress?
Turning a mattress is like rotating the tires on your car: You need to do it regularly to ensure even wear over time. If you don't turn your mattress, you risk wearing out the springs in the places where you tend to sleep. Also, body-shaped indentations will form, which can lead to discomfort and even back pain. To avoid that, turn your mattress every season. Does this Spark an idea?
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Enlist Help
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Mattresses are heavy and unwieldy. Get someone to help to prevent injuries and reduce the risk of an out-of-control mattress knocking something over in your room.
Clear the Area
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Remove items from your bedside tables and any other furniture immediately around your bed. Both you and your mattress will be moving around the bed, and you may bump into these objects, knocking them over and possibly breaking them.
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Remove Bedding
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Strip the bed down to just the mattress. Remove pillows, sheets and anything else that may be on the bed. This is a good time to inspect the mattress for damage, holes, signs of uneven wear as well as bedbugs and other pests.
The First Turn
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With one person on each side of the bed, turn the mattress counterclockwise 1/4 turn. The mattress should now rest flat on top of your bed perpendicular to the box spring.
Flip
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Grasping each end, lift the mattress up onto its side and then ease it back down so that what was the top of the mattress is now on the bottom.
Complete the Turn
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The mattress should still be perpendicular to the box spring, only now with the opposite side facing up. Turn the mattress in a counterclockwise direction again until it is even with the box spring beneath it.
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