Jay-Be mattress and folding bed FAQs
Can you sleep on a Jay-Be folding bed every night?
Sleeping on one every night will wear out the mattress long before the frame. Jay-Be engineers its folding mechanisms for repeated opening and closing, and regular guest duty is exactly what they are built to take. The mattress is different: it has to stay slim enough for the bed to fold away, and a slim mattress isn’t designed to be a permanent main bed. Used for visitors a few nights a month, a Jay-Be folding bed will keep going for years. If you need something to sleep on seven nights a week, buy a standard mattress and keep the folding bed for guests.
What is e-Fibre?
e-Fibre is the material Jay-Be produces from recycled plastic bottles, processed at the company’s own recycling facilities rather than bought in from an outside supplier. Bottles that would have gone to waste become mattress fibre, and the fibre is itself recyclable once the mattress reaches the end of its life, so the material loops back round instead of heading to landfill. Owning the recycling operation puts more substance behind the eco claim than the usual green labelling manages.
What makes Jay-Be’s children’s mattresses different?
Mostly that they are designed as children’s mattresses from the start, with sizes and firmness chosen for lighter, growing bodies rather than an adult build scaled down to fit. The CoreKids range picked up the Independent’s Indy Best Buy award as Best Overall Children’s Mattress. The Simply Kids line is colour-coded so parents can match the mattress to the child without wading through spec sheets, and most of the children’s range arrives rolled, which takes the pain out of carrying one upstairs.
Does Jay-Be make standard adult mattresses as well as folding beds?
It does. The adult range is built around pocket spring and hybrid constructions at value-tier pricing, with models such as the Benchmark S5 Hybrid Eco-Friendly, the 1000 e-Pocket TRUECORE Eco-Friendly and the Bio Cool Hybrid 2000 e-Pocket. We rate them as competent, not outstanding: nothing here embarrasses the brand, but folding guest beds and children’s mattresses are where Jay-Be leads, and its adult models compete in a far more crowded field. They hold their own against similarly priced rivals; the specialist brands that beat them charge a fair bit more.
Where can you buy a Jay-Be mattress, and can you return it?
The retailers do most of the selling here. Jay-Be keeps its own direct channel small, and the range mostly reaches buyers via Argos, John Lewis, Amazon and the other big names in home retail. Returns work the same way: whichever store you bought from sets the terms, because Jay-Be has no trial scheme of its own covering every purchase. A mattress ordered from Argos falls under Argos’s returns policy, while the identical model from John Lewis follows John Lewis’s. It pays to read those terms at checkout rather than after delivery.
How old is the Jay-Be brand?
Jay-Be goes back to 1901, when the company was founded in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. More than a century of trading through wars, recessions and the bed-in-a-box upheaval is not something many bed brands can point to, and it is one of the few credentials a shopper can check in thirty seconds. It won’t tell you which Jay-Be to buy, but it does suggest a company that has been getting enough beds right, for enough people, for a very long time.
