How long has your bed lasted?

I have a divan with memory foam mattress which we bought 8 years ago. The mattress is absolutely fine but the divan base is creaky and the bottoms of the two drawers keep collapsing. It was about £700 in total when new. We have been looking around just for a bed frame and I saw a couple I liked in JL for about £400 so will be doing that.

We have an 'old fashioned' iron bedstead with slats which we bought 15 years ago (ish) which cost about £500 and we have a Tempur mattress bought at around the same time which cost around £1,000. I think they should see us out!

I've had my present (small double) bed for 15 years. My old one (with its second mattress) is in the spare room which isn't used very frequently. I should get a new mattress for my bed as it's sagging a bit in the middle though I do have a good memory foam mattress topper which is more than comfortable.

We bought the sleigh bed I'd long coveted 7 yrs ago from Dreams we bought the best mattress we could afford to go with it. I think the total was £1000. It could have been cheaper with a different mattress but it was worth it, it's still as good as new.

We bought a Feather and Black bed ( wood frame with drawers ) 3 years ago, the slats snapped after a year and the main strut underneath collapsed. The total price was about £1450 and the mattress stuffing moved around leaving indentations so that I had to add a topper to be comfortable. The answer to the OP is not long enough and price is no indication of longevity. I do have two Hulsta beds bought fifteen years ago that are as new and extremely comfortable too, the only problem is sourcing them now, when we got a new mattress for one of them we had to order it online and have it transported.

We bought ours from Dreams its a divan base with drawers and pocket sprung mattress we've had it nearly 10 yrs it cost about £900. To me its still perfect the matress is turned regularly and isn't lumpy or saggy even at the edges or middle. Trouble is they keep telling you that you need to change your bed every 8/9/10 yrs(take your pick) and now OH keeps moaning we need to change the bed because!!
If its comfortable and showing no signs of wear do we still need to change the darn thing? I'm still very happy with our choice.

We bought a double Warren Evans bed ( ads in Sunday Times mags ) for DS room about 15 years ago. Beautifully made in wood with strong slats. They deliver it and construct it in the room. (Or did then ). It has moved around with him and is now back with us and still perfect.

DH has always had to replace slats on 'cheaper' beds.

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Far too long. We have a 3 storey house and our bedroom is the top floor, our bed was made in several pieces to go up our stair case. We recently bought a mattress topper thingy which does a splendid job. I'd like a new bed, but the stairs cause the delivery men problems, we had trouble with the delivery of a sofa for our first floor lounge. Should we move, we are thinking about it, we will definitely get a new bed, I fancy a 6ft one, next time, plenty of room for a hot post menopausal woman to thrash about in

Mine is lasting surprisingly well. Considering how long I spend in it. We did splash out on a good quality mattress a couple of years back. It's one of those beds with storage drawers which means the mattress is on a firm hardboard platform. So we didn't bother to change that bit. It lovely and comfy. Dreamy in fact. #Iheartmybeddie

We change ours about every ten years.When you think about how long you spend in bed.......

I do also. My present bed has a memory foam mattress which I love + a memory foam topper because I did not want to get rid of it!

A friend was thinking of buying a memory foam mattress so I lent her the topper and she perspired so much that she had to remove it.

I am a cold morsel but even I wake up during the night dripping with perspiration. It certainly keeps me warm.

We have a really sturdy divan bed, built in two sections, one at the top and one at the bottom, so that it can be moved easily. It cost just under £1000 over twenty years ago, and I really sometimes wish it would die as I would love one with storage underneath. All we have done is bought a new mattress ten years ago, so I suppose we should be buying a new one around now.

Yes, you are in bed a long time, but I was always brought up to use my old duvet on top of my mattress every time a new one has been bought, and that works very well, as I can wash it every year.

We bought Millbrook pocket-spring linked twins about 15 years ago. They are still in really good condition so no plans to change.

I think if one feels comfortable with one's bed why change it?

Ours is a Millbrook too - at least 12 years old. We too live in a 3 storey house, and being lucky enough to have a huge bedroom on the top floor were able to get a 6 ft one TerriBull and it is two 3' ones that clip together and the mattresses zip together. Made it much easier to get up the stairs!
I wouldn't change it until it was uncomfortable!

We bought a huge divan with a memory foam mattress about 8-9 years ago but replaced the mattress for a more traditional sprung mattress earlier this year. Such a relief. I know many people love the memory foam mattress but we disliked it and were so glad to see it go. We paid a lot and so hung on, hung on until I just couldn't bear to sleep on it one more night. Since the change I've slept better - a good night's sleep is priceless.

My mum and dad have just ordered a new bed because the current one is falling apart. They've only had it sixty years, so perhaps they should complain to the shop that sold it to them!

My bed and mattress came from Remploy 22 years ago. They were cheap then but are fine and will have to see me out, I'd sleep on the floor before paying the small fortune required for a new one.

I sleep in a 6' bed which is actually 2 extra deep singles zipped together. It is 15 years old and like sleeping on a cloud. Since DH died it only gets half the use so I sleep one week on one side and the next on the other so I only have to change the sheets 2x a month and the mattresses get even wear
Recently I had to sleep on the blow up mattress which I cart around with me in the car. It gets very cold, so I invested in an amazing 'Teddy Bear' mattress cover from Dunelm which I would heartily recommend. It snuggles all round your body.... Once home, I am going to buy some more for my other beds and see if they do an Extra King size for mine [snugglyemoticon]

I can`t remember when we bought our bed, but it was at least 10 years ago, bed, mattress and headboard were £399 altogether, and it`s still in great shape, it came from our local branch of United Carpets and Beds. I hope we never need another, because now we have the stairlift it would be practically impossible to get furniture up and downstairs.

We bought ours from this company six years ago. When we moved from the guest house, we bought this bed, but we had to sleep on a futon for a few weeks until we had decided which we wanted and it was delivered.

www.greenwoodsfurniture.co.uk/index.php/Home-1/?18

For years my husband used to build platform beds, so whenever we moved we had to buy a new bed. The mattress was usually okay.

We were given a very expensive (at the time) bed as a wedding present in 1975. It was a pocket-sprung mattress and sprung-edge base made by Relyon. It lasted us 31 years and we replaced it when we had our bedroom re-fitted in 2006. The replacement did not fare as well, and although the base is still ok, the mattress was sagging so we bought a new one a couple of months ago. The new mattress is memory-foam over springs from Silentnight and cost £540 (which is about twice what I expected to have to pay).

I bought a new oak (?) bed from Ercol a couple of years ago and a tempur mattress . I think it cost about £2,500. This is a lot, But the bed was made to order in the UK, not just shipped in from China, and they came and out it all together for me, plus it looks lovely.and I love it. I don't like divan beds as they look so bulky and I like the air circulating under a " proper" bed, plus you can put stuff in storage boxes underneath. The tempur mattress is lovely too. It's worth investing in a good bed and mattress.

We have a John Lewis divan which was an ex-display model. Have had it approx. 8 years. It has different sides, hubby's is firmer than mine and it has a Summer and Winter side. I prefer a divan as hubby is well built and when we have slept in slat beds, they never feel as solid. We paid £1800 in the sale. Lovely and comfortable, but always feel you need a trial period to see if a new bed is comfortable, unfortunately not many suppliers do this, understandably for hygiene reasons suppose.