Well, maybe some do now. But my son and I are cleaning his room this morning, and getting his twin mattress out of the way was enough work that I’m catching my breath to ask the collective geniuses here - why was it such a pain? I seem to recall moving larger mattresses, when moving, without handles too.
Cheryl
My mattress has handles.
Every mattress I’ve ever owned has had handles.
IME, most do; some don’t. A lot of the time, I’ll find on older mattresses that they’ve broken off over the years, but you can clearly see the eyelets where they were attached. It seems to me that the smaller mattresses are more likely not to have them.
We’ve bought two new mattresses in the last year, one queen and one full sized, neither has handles. All our old decrepit ones did, though.
They do, it’s just that they are of next to no use. As a mind greater than mine once said, “It’s not the weight, it’s the awkwardity!”
You can move a mattress a number of ways, none of which is helped any by the handles.
I’m an expert mover, having done it dozens of times for myself and friends. Fridge? No problem. Washing machine? No problem? Even a freakin’ PIANO… No problem.
But mattresses suck righteously.
I’ve always heard you aren’t supposed to lift the mattress by those handles. Tip #15 from
here, a site on mattress care agrees with me.
This site on mattress care agrees, also.
That’s apparently because the handles aren’t usually designed for lifting the mattress, but rather for rotating it end-for-end:
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There should be a great explanation with diagrams in the tag attached to the mattress. What? Don’t tell me you removed the tag.
You mean you are not supposed to carry them by the TAG? :smack:
Mattress handles come in handy. 