TERRIBLE MOTION TRANSFER AT 12"; BAD AT 9" TOO. 6" PERFECT
Submitted by Savage the Brad -
4/30/2025
Ever wanted to sleep on a bed ON STILTS? Well now you can!
The base is basically perfect (see what I did there? ;) ;) ;) ;). Just one MAJOR flaw: When trying to raise the bed from 6" to 9", all of a sudden, you can feel a lot more motion transfer from your partner. When raising to 12", it feels like an earthquake any time one of you gets out of bed.
We got the bed and slept great the first few nights, then raised it to 12" (using all available risers), and it was so disruptive any time I got up in the middle of the night (or rolled around), that it would wake up my wife! She was getting terrible sleep for a couple months, until we finally considered the possibility that it was caused by the extra 6" of lift. We thought it was like that the whole time since we bought the king size bed/base because we raised it soon after getting it.
Then today we spent like 2 hours testing every single option: 1) we removed the base entirely and plopped the mattress on the carpet, 2) then tested the mattress on the base, but with no lifters at all (base just lying flat on the floor), 3) then just the first 3" lifter, 4) 6" lift total, 5) 9", 6) we had already experienced the horror of the 12" so we didn't have to do that again.
With our testing we figured out that options 1-4 felt pretty much the exact same. No noticeable difference. When my wife rolled around in bed, or got up out of bed, or back in, I sometimes couldn't even tell that she had moved.
Option 5 was noticeably worse. I could feel a rickety-ness that would be enough to wake a light sleeper.
Option 6 was just horrendous. Absolutely unfathomable to me that this design made it to production! Did they not even test this base at all with 2 PEOPLE sleeping in the same bed?
Everything else is great about the base but Tempur-pedic should be ashamed of this oversight and whoever is responsible should be sacked.
We do like the lumbar support, the underbed lighting, the zero-G and snore functions (which are both really just customizable presets with a default factory setting they think you'll like), and of course the "default" preset is nice.
The vibration could have used a few more settings, and I would have liked to see an additional preset or two.
So, if you want more than 6" clearance, better go with a different product (and different company). Unless you are single. But even then, the bed just feels better getting into when it's stable. And there are tons of options out there to choose from with similar price points! Just do yourself a favor and pass on this one.
Note: We bought the King size Luxe-Breeze Firm mattress about 2 months ago (February 2025) and the Tempur-Ergo Power Base (the 2nd cheapest one at the time).
Originally posted on TempurPedic.com
No, I do not recommend this product
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