It was pretty much what I was expecting. A bit like a duvet, with straps on the corners. It felt soft and fluffy, smelt wonderfully of the lavender that was included with it. The craftswomanship is evident.These sumptuous wool mattress toppers are the best in helping achive a great nights sleep as they add approximately 4cm of added comfort to your bed and many people find this very comfortable. Whilst our wool mattress toppers cannot take the place of a good mattress, they will certainly give an added softness to a firm mattress and relieve pressure points.
These wool mattress toppers have also shown to be succesful in dispersing the heat that some mattresses can radiate back up to the body as the topper spreads the heat before it penetrates a heat reflecting mattress.
Each topper is individually handcrafted by our seamstresses in England using natural materials to create a high quality product.
The wool mattress topper is filled with our sustainable, platinum British wool (approx 1000gsm) and encased in 100% soft cotton. This cotton casing is woven especially for Devon Duvets to support the breathability of the dense wool and is brushed on both sides to create a soft feel and a higher resistance to sliding on the mattress.
Broad elastic straps are fastened to each corner of the wool mattress topper, providing a flexibility for differing depths of mattress.
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We looked at it, and tried to work out exactly how to do this. Should we take off the superking cover that held the mattresses together? Probably not. How would the mattresses stay together if we did that?
OK, so we put it on top of the mattress cover. And then put a fitted sheet on top. There had been a promo code for half price bedding with the purchase of the cover, and I'd bought a 400 count Egyptian Cotton sheet. We put that on.
To me, it looked horribly untitdy. It looked like my worst nightmare of what a mattress topper would be like. It looked like we had some crappy mattress with a bit of padding stuffed under the sheet. To be fair, I suppose that's what it is.
I suspect that it's a homely look that many would find comforting and charming. I don't. I think it reminds me of a particularly horrible old bed I had as a child, and that might be why I have such a strong anti reaction to it.
DH usually hates it if the fitted sheet gets wrinkled and isn't taut, so I could see this was going to be a disaster.
We went to bed.
DH loves it. In fact, he's slept really well since we put it on, and he's commented a few times on just how comfortable it is.
It was comfortable to sleep on and, more importantly, I couldn't hear the mattress crinkling. At all. Bliss!
I've slept reasonably well, but I'm aching a little bit. I don't know if that I'm not getting the 'benefit' of sleeping on the gel now, or maybe its just coincidence and I've been a bit squished up using my tablet while sitting on the sofa.
The topper has stayed in place. The the new sheet has moulded itself to to the contours of the lengthwise quilting lines on the topper. Without the duvet on, the bed looks like a really badly made sandwich.
It may be that it'll work better with my not-so-expensive John Lewis fitted sheet, and I'll try that in a couple of days and see. f that fails, I expect I can run something under the mattess to pull he middle of the sheet more taut.
I am wondering if I should have got the extra wide topper. I didn't get that because I could not imagine how the corner straps would work in that case.
I might email them and ask them. Just out of interest.
