Mattresses
Balmoral Luxury Pocket Sprung Mattresses
This mattress is designed specifically for use with our RelaxomaticTM adjustable beds and is manufactured to include the best industry standard features:
- 1.8 mm gauge individually pocketed springs (to give an idea, a 3'0" (95 cm) wide mattress of regular length contains 14 rows of 33 springs - giving an interior total of 462 springs) all of which are specially configured to enable easy flexing of the mattress;
- springs are held together with metal hog clips and encased in double pockets to provide added strength, long-life and comfort as well as to ensure that the springs do not entwine together when the mattress is being flexed;
- springs are sandwiched between double thicknesses of rich compressed wool sheeting and an additional luxury Kashmir wool outer layer, the whole construction being finished in a superior quality damask woven outer surface fabric.
To ensure even wear and the longest life for our pocket sprung mattresses we recommend that our mattresses are turned, that is either inverted and/or laterally rotated 180°, at regular intervals - we suggest every four months - just like conventional mattresses.
Although opinions on firmness are necessarily subjective, most people agree that our Balmoral Luxury Pocket Sprung Mattresses can fairly be described as 'medium firm'.
Reflex ® Foam Mattresses
This mattress is produced exclusively for use with our RelaxomaticTM adjustable beds. The foam filling is 100% Reflex ® Foam, manufactured by VITAFOAM, one of the leading British suppliers of foam to the UK bedding industry. Reflex ® foam consists of specially formulated and medically approved high quality foam-content, which is non-fibrous and hypo-allergenic - hence its popularity with nursing homes and hospitals.
Reflex ® Foam Mattresses are particularly renowned for:
- high restitution, a property of the foam which returns the mattress to its starting shape after compression giving excellent long-life shape retention qualities with very little change over very long periods of heavy usage; and
- exceptionally high resistance to deterioration through moisture.
To ensure even wear and the longest life for our Reflex ® foam mattresses we recommend that our mattresses are turned, that is either inverted and/or laterally rotated 180°, at regular intervals - we suggest every four months - just like conventional mattresses.
Our Reflex ® Foam mattresses are somewhat firmer than our pocket sprung mattresses (which we treat as the 'medium-firm' benchmark).
Reflex ® Foam mattresses can also be produced for heavier users (different grades up to 30 stone) if required.
Reflex ® Foam Mattresses with Built-in Massage Units
Another mattress unique to Motion Technology.
Our massage mattress is based on the Reflex ® Foam Mattress as detailed above, featuring also five low-voltage (12 V) Relaxor massage pad units which are set half-way into the mattress thickness and located at intervals along the length of the centre-line of the mattress surface. The massage feature is very flexible in meeting a user's needs or preferences. Massage pads can be individually selected or de-selected, allowing the user to direct massage effects to specific body areas as required; the user can also select a 'wave' setting which will activate the selected massage pads in a repeating consecutive sequence, or similarly a 'pulse' setting, where the selected massage pads will operate together, repeatedly all coming on momentarily then switching off. Speed and intensity of massage can both be adjusted to suit an individual's requirements whichever massage setting is selected.
The massage unit also features a snooze facility: when the massage system is turned on initially, a green light will come on at the power button which means the system is set to automatically switch off after 15 minutes of uninterrupted operation; the massage units can then be reactivated in the setting that was operative at the point when the snooze feature switched off, simply by pressing the start button on the massage control handset. If when turning on the system, the power button is held down, the green light will turn into an orange light, which means that the system is set to automatically switch off after 30 minutes of uninterrupted operation. The regular 15 minute snooze switch off is automatically restored by manually switching the handset power button off and then on again.
Perfolatex ® 99.9% Pure Natural Latex Mattresses
A "top of the range" mattress of superlative quality - exclusive to Motion Technology!
Perfolatex is another leading mattress-filling manufactured by VITAFOAM, under a special technical process which converts 99.9% purely natural latex into a unique "best performance" intercommunicating cell structure (0.1% is synthetic latex which is combined with the natural product to ensure an optimal mass-hardness ratio). Our mattresses combine the supremely beneficial characteristics of Perfolatex into an adjustable bed application.
Perfolatex meets the very highest standards applicable to the mattress industry, with every single block manufactured being tested to international standards verifying tensile strength, resistance to degradation through wear and tear and the effects of temperature, light and humidity. VITAFOAM state, by reference to detailed published test results (concerning specifically mechanical deterioration, ageing, ventilation capability and durability) that Perfolatex quite simply outperforms all other fillings - including all other types of latex!
The difference between Reflex Foam and Perfolatex? - Whilst Reflex Foam is a truly excellent product in its own right, Perfolatex is superior above all in its ability to shape itself perfectly to the body contours of the individual positioned on top of it. It is the ultimate in compliant comfort and support for the human body and is therefore perfectly in tune with present-day medical opinions on the very best solutions for flexible back care support.