Sleep trials and warranties are essential parts of your mattress shopping experience. Sleep trials let you try out your mattress risk-free for a certain number of nights. Warranties cover any manufacturer mistakes like premature aging or defects.
Normally, a reasonable minimum for a sleep trial is 100 nights, and a good minimum for a warranty is 10 years. A 100-night sleep trial and 10-year warranty let you know the manufacturer stands behind their product and has made it to last.
As always, you need to read the fine print. Make sure your warranty doesn’t have any loopholes that let the manufacturer get out of it. And ensure your sleep trial really is risk-free. That means you can return the mattress undamaged for any reason and get a full refund.