Joiners, sparks, plumbers, brickies, roofers
Your back does the work all day. Give it the night off.
Kneeling on floors, hauling boards up stairs, a van seat that was never built for a body. The job takes it out of your back and your knees, and the wrong mattress just holds them in the same shape until the alarm goes.
Your day
On the tools at six
Lifting is the job. Recovering is what lets you keep doing it.
Up in the dark, on site before most people have had a coffee, and the last thing you want at the end of it is a soft bed that lets your back sag. You want to lie down and feel it straighten out.
A firmer pocket-sprung mattress keeps the spine level while the Zero Gravity layer takes the weight off the hips and shoulders. The difference is waking up able to bend before the first job of the day, not after it.
Why it matters
What better sleep does for the trade
The first hour
A back that has been held straight all night is loose by the time you are on your knees. One that has been curled up in a sag needs an hour to get going.
Fewer mistakes
Tired hands measure wrong and cut twice. Rested ones do it once. On price work that is money.
The years
Every tradesperson knows someone whose back finished them at fifty. The night is where you slow that down.
The Zero Gravity range
Built for deep sleep, not just hours
Our own Signature Beds range, made in Britain. Four mattresses that share one idea: take the pressure off, keep you cool, keep you level, so you stay in the deep stages of sleep where recovery actually happens.
The Zero Gravity layer spreads your weight across the whole surface instead of loading the hips and shoulders, so you shift less and stay in deep sleep longer.
Zero Tex and gel-infused tops are built not to hold heat. Core temperature has to drop for the body to go into deep sleep; a hot mattress fights that all night.
Pocket springs move independently under you. Whatever you did to your back today, it is not being held in a bend for eight hours.
Made to order in around two weeks. Every one is on the showroom floor in Clydebank to lie on for as long as it takes to be sure.
Our pick for you
Two to start with
Both on the floor in Clydebank. Prices are for a single; doubles and kings are on each product page. Every mattress in the range is made to order in around two weeks.
Garscadden 3400
Medium to firm, 3400 springs, hand side-stitched so the edge does not give when you sit to pull your boots on. The one for a body that lifts for a living.
- 3400 pocket springs, hand side-stitched
- 2nd generation Zero Gravity layer
- 27cm deep, hand tufted
- No-turn, flag-stitch handles
Ted 1000
If firm is too much, the Ted is medium with a strong encapsulated edge and the same Zero Gravity layer, at a lower price.
- 1000 pocket springs, encapsulated edge
- Zero Gravity plus recyclable comfort layer
- Micro-quilted finish
- 5-year guarantee
Try before you buy
Ten minutes on it beats any review
Lie on each one, in the position you sleep in, for as long as you like. Family-run showroom above the Co-op in Clydebank, Monday to Saturday 9 to 5. 0% finance over up to 12 months.
Come in on a Saturday morning in your work gear and lie on both. Nobody minds the boots.