Penticton Home Show

We were down at the Penticton Spring Home Show this past weekend and had a very good time. The show was surprisingly well attended. definitely better than what we had thought it would be, which is always a nice surprise. particularly if you consider our last show was the Spring show at Prospera Place in Kelowna and coincided with the last weekend of the Olympics. Not very good planning on our part.

One common theme I kept hearing at both shows, was the number of people who have purchased a mattress in the past several years and perhaps invested a significant amount into the mattress, and are now very unhappy with the quality of sleep the mattress is delivering. We too have experienced this. A number of years ago we attended a wedding in Winnipeg and loved the mattress we slept on at the Fort Garry Hotel. Later that year we purchased a double-sided, pillow top mattress from a national chain, the mattress was heavenly. For about a year and a half. And then we noticed, that despite flipping the thing monthly and spinning it 180 degrees, that there were body impressions where we slept and the mattress was no longer comfortable at all. I remember waking in the middle of the night, going to the biffy and then it was a deliberate motion to lie down on my side that didn’t hurt. The pressure points I was experiencing were unbelievable.

Now, I can assure you this will not happen on an intelliBED but it sure is difficult to convey that to people because they have heard it before and look at what the are stuck with today. My personal experience is that after 2 years on our current intelliBED mattress, there is no sign that it has even been slept in never mind body impressions. I was recently back in Calgary and there is an 8 yr old mattress there at Head Office that the only way you can tell it is an experienced mattress is that the top stretch nit is looser than a new one. Other wise it still looks and feels terrific.

The only thing that interrupts my sleep nowadays is my 2-year-old. But he’s just so darn cute I think I’ll put up with the occasional kick or punch to the head from him.