Our workforce of 9 mattress consultants has been doing this for years. We’ve examined and reviewed round 300 mattresses and dozens of sleep equipment, from bedding to toppers to headphones for sleep. Throughout that point, we’ve established a testing methodology that every mattress undergoes when it arrives at our Reno testing facility.
We take a holistic strategy to mattress testing, which suggests our workforce is concerned to make sure we’re representing all kinds of folks. Our workforce has a mixture of genders, physique sorts and sleeping positions.
CNET mattress knowledgeable Owen Poole checks movement isolation utilizing a glass of water.
Firmness
We charge and report two kinds of firmness: Subjective and goal. Once I check firmness, I lie on the mattress in each sleeping place and observe the way it feels towards my again, abdomen and hips. Our complete workforce takes half on this course of to make sure that the firmness ranking just isn’t based mostly on one physique kind.
The Mattress Smasher 9000 objectively measures the firmness ranges of mattresses.
The target firmness degree comes from our Mattress Smasher 9000. Not solely is it impressively orange, however it will probably scientifically charge the firmness of a mattress based mostly on the pressure of a 160-pound particular person. We at all times ensure to check a mattress ourselves earlier than the MS9K will get a flip to make sure our expertise is unbiased.
Movement isolation
Movement isolation is how nicely a mattress dampens motion throughout the floor. It won’t seem to be a giant deal, however if you happen to sleep with one other particular person or furry buddy, a mattress with poor movement isolation can preserve you up at evening.
To check movement isolation, we do two issues. First, I lie on a mattress and shut my eyes whereas a teammate strikes round on the mattress subsequent to me. I do that from each sleeping place and charge how a lot motion I really feel the entire time. Second, we carry out the water check, which entails setting a glass of water on the sting of a mattress and rolling towards it. The mattress receives a decrease movement isolation rating if the water sloshes round or topples.
Edge help
In case you’re like me and have a tendency to sleep on the sting of the mattress or have mobility limitations, then you understand how necessary edge help is. To check the energy of the mattress’s perimeter, we sit and lie on the sting and charge how a lot it caves. It does not have good edge help if it appears like we would roll off or the sting collapses below our weight.
A lot of our favourite beds, like Large Fig, have robust edge help, that means you’ve gotten entry to the whole floor space of the mattress to sleep.
Temperature
All the beds that come by our lab are examined in a temperature-controlled room. Many manufacturers declare their beds are cooling, however their efficiency does not again it up. We’re obsessed with ensuring a mattress backs up its claims. We study the mattress’s building and depend on our first-hand expertise with it to charge how cool it feels.
