What To Do When Your Mattress Is Too Soft

If you find yourself sinking into or feeling stuck within your mattress then there's a good chance you need to firm up your mattress. Believe it or not, a mattress too soft can be just as detrimental to your health as a mattress too solid.

So your mattress is too soft, how do we fix that? Of course just buying a new mattress is an easy fix to the problem but that’s costly and ineffective when you could do the following instead.

• Using a plywood board can offer enhanced support, particularly near the bottom of a mattress. It creates the sensation of firmness along the mattress, strengthening the entire bed.
• Your mattress could be absorbing moisture from the air around it, softening it over time, or if you’re within a more humid environment the bed could also be retaining water. A simple way to fix it is to leave it out to dry, firming it up.
• Getting a firmer mattress topper is highly recommended, a mattress topper can extend your mattresses lifespan and enhance your sleeping experience.

• Box springs wear out with time. If you have an old box spring, that may be the reason behind your bed feeling too soft. A worn-out box spring cannot provide sufficient support required for your mattress, making it feel softer than usual.

Firmness as a concept is relative. What you as an individual find comfortable won’t be the same for someone else so there’s a level of trial and error to the aforementioned strategies, some may work and some will not.