Fair Go has stepped into the middle of a bedroom battle – between mattresses and sheets.
Making a bed with fitted sheets can be a struggle. Christchurch’s Kath Thomas says she’s given up after being forced to “cut the elastic and the corners eventually to be able to get some use out of them”.
She sleeps on a king single and bought king single-sized sheets to match.
A king single mattress is typically 107cm across and 203cm in length. But many fitted sheets also have those exact measurements so there isn’t a lot of wriggle room.
The difference is all in the depth, with both mattress and sheets sizes varying up to 10cm. So if you’ve got a deep mattress, or lots of extras like woollen toppers and electric blankets on the bed – that can cause real problems.
The Linen Store’s Abby Knudson agrees that mattresses are getting deeper and more people are using toppers.
She advises consumers to always double check their bed measurements before heading instore, and then check them against the measurements on the sheet packaging.
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