Tips for Sleeping on Memory Foam in Cold Temperature
As the fall season takes deeper hold on the country and overnight temperatures dip into colder territory, you might notice that your memory foam mattress or mattress topper feels a lot more stiff and rigid than it did in the summer. This is because memory foam is a temperature-sensitive material that responds to its environment in a way that ordinary coil spring or pocket spring mattresses do not. Memory foam mattresses are flexible and pliant when warm, but the opposite when cold.
But just because your memory foam mattress or memory foam mattress topper is behaving as expected in cold temperatures, that doesn’t mean you have to suffer through a breaking in period each night before you sleep. Here are some tips to help get memory foam sleep ready when the weather turns chilly.
Warm up the room
Since memory foam responds to ambient temperatures, one of the best ways to ensure your mattress or topper doesn’t feel too stiff is to warm up your bedroom approximately 30 minutes before you sleep. This will give the material enough time to warm and soften so you can rest comfortably.
Add extra blankets to the bed
If you don’t want to warm up the whole room, you can simply focus on warming up the bed. This is easily achieved by adding extra blankets (wool, fleece, or down work best) over your or topper, which will insulate the material against the cool air temperature. Note: Since memory foam retains body heat as you sleep, do not keep the extra blankets on after you turn in for the night.
Refrain from using hot water bottles or electric blankets/electric heating pads
Tempting as it may be to warm your memory foam mattress as quickly as possible with a hot water bottle or electric blanket/heating pad, we advise you not to do so. Such direct applications of heat can damage the memory foam material and not only compromise its performance but also shorten its overall lifespan.
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What if you have a mattress cover between foam and heating pad cover?
This should be OK. Make sure there is no frayed wiring, and the temperature doesn’t get above 150 degrees F.
I was thinking of buying a electric throw for my memoryfoam mattres. I’ll ready have a mattres cover. Is that OK lf I put it onto duvet.
Memory Foamhas not been tested for use with heated blankets or pads, so you would need to test for the application.
If I put a mattress cover over my foam mattress. Then place my heated mattress cover.would this pretect my foam?
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If you put a mattress pad on your memory foam bed, would you be able to use a heating mattress pad over that?
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Thank you for reaching out to Foam By Mail via our blog.
Based on your question, you can actually place the heating mattress pad right on top of the memory foam. As memory foam is affected by temperate and the warm pad will always keep the memory foam soft.
However, if that is not what you are interested in, than you can purchase a standard conventional foam to place on top with the heating mattress pad over that. This will not affect the memory foam on the mattress underneath.
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I have a memory foam mattress on the bed in my summer bedroom which is a screened in porch. Will the mattress be fine in spring after being out all winter?
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Per your question, as long as the memory foam does not get wet the foam should be just fine. However, please note memory foam is extremely affected by temperature. It will harden in winter, hold heat in summer and can potentially mold from condensation.
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I’m thinking of getting a phone mattress and I like my bed warm and my room cold to sleep in the winters. Right now on a traditional mattress I use a heating mattress pad but do not leave it on all night. Only to warm the bed. Would I be able to use the heated mattress pad only to heat the bed as to get into a warm bed? I never sleep with it on all night. I would have a thin mattress pad on the mattress already & put heated pad over that.
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Per your question, what foam type were you looking at for the mattress? As this will affect our answer if a heating pad will work or not.
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