Welcome to the Adjustable Bed Mart blog. The purpose of this blog is educate the consumer about the benefits of adjustable beds and keep you all informed about the latest in sleep technologies.
Let me start by telling you something about ourselves and our store.
My name is Jeff Alley. My wife, Malka, and I own and operate Adjustable Bed Mart.
Malka opened Adjustable Bed Mart in 1990. She had been working at several local furniture and bedding stores and was upset about the low quality of customer service. She took her savings and opened Adjustable Bed Mart in a 600 square foot store on Sunny Dunes Road in Palm Springs. She carried Adjust-A-Bed, the original adjustable bed manufacturer and Spring Air. At that time, an adjustable beds started at $ 699. Latex adjustable bed sold for $ 999.
I joined her in the latter part of 1990. I started out delivering her beds for her but couldn’t help but fall in love with her. We married in 1991 and I began working full time at the store.
After several years at our original location we decided to expand our inventory and start making our own line of mattresses, so we moved several doors down the street to a larger location. This is where we first started carrying our private line of adjustable bed mattresses.
As the population started to grow down valley, we decided to open a second store in Palm Desert on Larkspur Lane. Malka ran that store by herself.
In 1999, our lease at the Sunny Dunes store ran out and was not available for renewal. We moved to Cathedral City and became one of the anchor stores in the Canyon Plaza South shopping center. With this larger, more central location, we no longer needed the store in palm Desert and closed it after seven years.
We moved into our present location on El Paseo in March of 2009. It is our most beautiful store yet.
We are proud of our reputation as the “Adjustable Bed Specialist”! Adjustable bed sales and service are what we do. Other stores may carry one or two, we have fifteen. In addition to all of the standard sizes, we can make most any custom size. While we carry both inner spring mattresses and latex mattresses, the latex ones are our best sellers.
We only carry bases from Leggett and Platt, an American manufacturer. No Chinese bases in our store. Leggett and Platt has the widest variety of adjustable bed bases in the world and we carry all of them, form the Pro-Motion to the state of the art element®, the bed that watches you and automatically adjust to your position.
We also carry linens made just for adjustable beds in all sizes. We have two companies making sheets, dust ruffles and other bedding for us. We carry permanent press sheets, 100% cotton sheets, organic cotton and bamboo/cotton blend sheets. My favorite is the organic cotton. It is super soft and super cozy.
Most of our service is on older adjustable beds. An adjustable bed can last for 25 to 30 years. There are not many mechanical things that can make that claim in these days of planned obsolescence. Because you are only moving the bed for a few seconds at a time when you first go to bed and then again in the morning when you put the bed flat, you might only put two or three actual hours of use on the components.
The other reason that adjustable beds last so long is the small number of parts that actually make up an adjustable bed. Older beds had an average of 6 parts: the hand control, the two lift motors, the frame and sometimes two massage motors. The really old beds had rubber drive belts. These belts have to be changed on a regular basis, just like the fan belt in your car. (Sidenote: As far as I can tell, Adjustable Bed Mart is the only source for these belts. When the original source quit making them in 2008, we had to go to Japan to have them custom made) New beds can have as little as just three parts: The hand control, the motor assembly and the frame.
I think this is enough information for this posting. My future post will cover the benefits of adjustable beds, specific information about different types of adjustable bed bases and mattresses and general information to help you get a good night’s rest.
Good night, sleep tight and may all of your dreams be sweet!
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