Suitable Support
Place the mattress on a rigid support that does not sink by more than 5 cm when subjected to body weight. Any mattress that is placed on an unsuitable base will be prone to early aging, due to poor operating conditions rather than constructional features. A suitable support therefore plays an important role in your mattress' natural life cycle and Is essential to obtaining good quality sleep.You should consequently avoid bedsprings made of metal or those that do not offer uniform surface support. We recommend supports consisting of wooden staves with rubber shock absorbers for latex mattresses, as they enhance performance. It is always best choose a support that enables the mattress to breathe.


Settling
After a certain period of use, a mattress should start to show signs of the person who has slept there. In fact, a good mattress ought to possess the necessary qualities to be able to mould itself to your body shape, lightly giving way under the loads applied. This is the only way to be certain that your mattress is good for your health and well-being. Slight signs of settling are a demonstration of these capacities. This settling does not occur in inflexible and incorrectly manufactured supports, which force the body to lie in unnatural and harmful positions.


Useful Accessories
Materassia always recommends using a bed base cover in order to prevent mattress wear due to contact with the support, and a mattress cover in order to prevent staining. Both these accessories also provide protection against dust. Accessories worked with Merino wool are extremely important because of their heat regulating properties. In fact, these accessories are able to create a sleep environment with the right microcilmate, with consequent positive effects on the quality of your sleep.

Optimal Duration
Scientific research and extreme laboratory tests have shown that ideal mattress duration is around 8 to 10 years max. Once this period of time has passed, all mattresses
start to progressively loose their hygienic features, their optimal load bearing capacity and their comfort.

Mattress evaluation standards  UNI dimensions and tolerance
Slight differences in size with respect to the nominal indications are normal given the entity of the product in question, which has been manufactured through the assembly of elastic materials that may be subject to settling. All Materassia products are manufactured in compliance with the size tolerance provisions in UNI standards
relative to the "mattress evaluation methods".

Materassia reserves the right to change the technical features of its products and/or fabric designs and colours shown in this catalogue without prior notice, following any technical/production revisions.