Mattress Genie

by I.O. on 09/19/2015

This is a heavy duty river raft type material, it's tough. This lift is far superior than a mattress wedge. I took into account that I wasn't getting a $2,000.00 lift bed,so the performace is good but it isn't the same as a lift mattress. The air pressure holds 100% for months at a time. The only neative thing I've noticed is the air pump sounds like a vacum cleaner,loud! The lift has no warranty and once you buy it and it works without any problem you own it.

10 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful?     

by N.H. on 09/05/2015

We ended up returning ours. To get the head up about 6 inches for reflux sufferers, it will "bend" the mattress. You cannot create a diagonal surface if you need to go 5-6" high, and we think a diagonal surface is better for stomach sleepers. You can definitely be comfortable with this as a back sleeper and perhaps as a side sleeper. It is more like the feel you'd get from sleeping with a bed wedge instead of the feel you get from putting the head posts up on blocks. Another other big issue was that, for the king size version of this at least, it creates a "waterbed" like feel. When one person gets in bed, we found it tended to roll the other person around a little. Again, this is when it was inflated to bring the mattress up about 6". It may be that if you're inflating it much higher than that you won't feel it because the unit is more full and less squishy. It does seem like a sturdy piece. We are going to look for frame inserts that allow for a straight...

7 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful?