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Questions about beds and mattresses answered & stories told.

We've been selling FBG daybeds for around 20 years and I can count on only one or two sets of fingers the number of times one of their daybeds had a problem. They stopped making daybeds completely a f...

I’ve written before about how I’ve not slept through the night the same since the birth of our first child almost thirty years ago. I am sure this is normal because as parents we always keep one eye open...

Plush talalay latex pillows with organic cotton covers are now available in our showroom to try. They are antimicrobial, hypo allergenic and resist dust mites as well. Out most comfortable and long lasting p...

We had a customer this morning that came in looking for a futon. This doesn’t happen anywhere near as often as it did twenty years ago. They sat down on one of our eight inch futon mattresses and thought ou...

When I think back to what I had accomplished by my 30th birthday (he’ll reach that milestone in November) it pales in comparison. Has a Masters degree. (I lasted one term) Has a good paying job (related ...

No you shouldn’t. A customer asked this question yesterday and I looked them right in the eye and said “I wouldn’t walk into your doctor’s office and tell them how they should diagnose the...

Well boy do we have a new record. I received a phone call yesterday from a gentleman wanted a 9ft by 10ft mattress! Of course I asked why so big and he told me that he and his wife were very tall. It was more tha...

A couple came in to the store late yesterday afternoon looking for the smallest and thinnest mattress they could find. To show me one of them put a finger and thumb so close together they almost touched! I explai...

A nice couple fromNorth York purchased a california king supreme adjustable bed today even though neither was more than five foot ten tall. They just wanted the extra few inches in length and did not already have a ...

We had a visit from a customer who wanted just that yesterday. She had knee problems but wanted an adjustable bed because of the added features and the much wider choice in mattresses available for them. ...

Sadly this had happened half a dozen times over the 26 years I have been in the business. There is no requirement for the receiver to set aside money for future claims (there should be). If someone buys the comp...

Just before we closed on Saturday a lady called to ask whether we had a showroom and if we did whether the home hospital beds we showed on our website were on display? I answered yes to the first question telling...

I helped a nice ladyfrom Oakville today with this exact life experience. I showed her memory foam onpocket coil (no good, too much pushing back), then I showed her all memory foam (much better but to soft), and then...

3/4 for sure followed by all European mattress sizes and then short queen for Rvs. Three quarter mattresses are not all the same size which can complicate matters sometimes when a customer does not measur...

We have not for at least a decade. We did buy 200 units from a wholesaler so cheaply once that we could sell twin aero beds for $79 and king sizes for $119. I doubt a deallike that will come along again anyti...

Yes it is, and it happens all the time and worst of all you have no warranty because this is not the manufacturer’s problem it’s the chain store’s problem. Hopefully you made a note on your invo...

Yes they do and it happened again yesterday! A nice local family came in yesterday and after 30 minutes of happy bantering and testing had pretty much chosen a Gibraltar Extra Firm mattress. The husband wanted to...

I got asked this question earlier today (for the first time) by a couple who had just sold their home and are moving to a condo in Waterdown in August. The couple who bought their house also wanted to buy their ...

There is almost always a set or two on display in our West Mississauga showroom that’s on sale at a very attractive discount to sell quickly. We change every floor model a couple of times a year to keep the sh...

We couldn’t possibly stock all fifty models in every possible size and would never try because it would take a crazy big warehouse and we would have to charge way more per custom mattress than we do curren...