Your alarm goes off, but you're already awake.

You've tossed and turned, trying in vain to find a comfortable position and steal a little more sleep. You blame it on your age.

Yet you're neither ill nor ageing overnight: these aches and pressure points come from your bed! The mattress may simply be old, the base worn out, or perhaps the set is now too firm or too soft. Look closely: didn't you already have this bed back in your student days?

How to recognise worn-out bedding?

Is your bedding more than 10 years old?

A 10-year-old bed has been used about 3,650 nights. Given that we move an average of 40 times per night, the bed base and the mattress will have had to work approximately 150,000 times.