FDW Inch Gel Medium Firm CertiPUR US Reviews Summary

Comfort

Pros:

• "It is the softest bed ever. At the beginning its kind of hard, but your body adjusts to it."
• "I honestly was just trying to replace my sons twin bed with a queen! And I totally wasn’t expecting it to be wayyyyy more comfortable than my 1500$ mattress."
• "This mattress it awesome! No more back pain, more comfortable and better sleep."
• "This bed is AMAZING!! For less than $300?! STEAL!!"
• "This mattress is so comfortable and good quality."
• "It's very comfortable in a stiff odd sinking way."
• "The mattress itself is firm but the cushioning while you rest is perfect, at least for myself and husband."

Cons:

• "This mattress is very uncomfortable. I wake up with back and neck pain every morning."
• "However, it is so firm that it feels like it's beating us up each night."
• "Every night I sleep in this bed I wake up in pain and discomfort in the middle of the night."
• "We bought this because my daughter needed a new mattress and it’s been absolutely horrible. It’s way too hard, almost like sleeping on the ground."
• "The mattress is so firm I wake up sore every morning."
• "Unless you like sleeping on a rock, don’t do it."
• "But to me and my husband it was like sleeping on a board."

Size & Expansion

Pros:

• "I ordered 2 of the 8 inch for a day bed plus trundle and they are FABULOUS - soft, comfortable, you just melt into the bed!"
• "It inflated to full size within 24hours."
• "It expanded quickly to its full 10 inches."
• "Got full 10 inches in 1 hour."
• "As soon as I got the vacuum sealed bag off it fluffed up to full size almost immediately."
• "When I unwrapped it, it fluffed up within minutes, within an hour completely."
• "This mattress is priced great, it’s very comfortable and fluffed up from the box within a couple of hours."

Cons:

• "I ordered the 8 inch for my daughter’s new bed and it only expanded to 7 inches."
• "Aside from it never reaching it's advertised size the smell is unbearable."
• "The mattress came up to 5 inches I ordered a 6 inch full size. Only got as big as 5 and the smell is still there after a few weeks."
• "Unfortunately it did not reach the 8” that I ordered. It fluffed to about 7” after leaving it out for a week."
• "Well, after 96 hours, with no one being on it and it sitting in the open, it is still a full inch and half short."
• "I gave this mattress a full 24 hours before sleeping on it. It never expanded to 8”."
• "When it did get delivered it never 'inflated' to it's advertised thickness."

Odor

Pros:

• "Straight out of the box, this mattress did not have a strong odor, and after sitting and airing, it had no smell at all."
• "No weird chemical smell, like you can get from other new mattresses."
• "Also it fluffed up very fast and didn’t have a smell."
• "I didn’t notice any offensive smell after unpacking and they expanded very quickly."
• "There was no smell and we started using it almost immediately."
• "It did have like the new mattress package smell but that went away after an hour or so of being aired out."
• "First time using a mattress in a box, and I was very pleased in less than 72 hours it rose to full size and there was no odor."

Cons:

• "They had a pretty strong chemical smell (similar to the smell of a permanent marker) and it took a few weeks for that to go away."
• "Only negative was it smelled VERY strongly of paint for a week before the smell finally went away."
• "IT SMELLS so bad."
• "The odor was also very strong and it took about 5 days to dissipate."
• "However mine did in fact have a smell when I first opened it and it was not a pleasant one."
• "Unfortunately, the very strong chemical smell has not gone away yet."
• "I really wanted to keep this mattress as it is perfect in every other way but the smell is so strong you can pick up on it as soon as you enter the room. What a shame!"