Buying a mattress used to mean walking through a showroom, testing bed after bed under fluorescent lights, and hoping you made the right choice. Today, there’s a smarter way: order your mattress online and have it delivered to your door - neatly compressed into a box. The 100 night trial allows you to comfortably test the mattress in your own home.
This is the bed-in-a-box revolution, and Sloom is proud to bring it to South Africa.
What Is Mattress Compression?
Through advanced compression technology, a full-size mattress can be reduced to just a quarter of its original volume, a space-saving reduction of up to 75%. At Sloom, this means we can ship our mattresses more cost-effectively across the country, while ensuring they arrive in perfect condition.
Here’s how it works:
- The mattress is sealed in an airtight bag.
- Industrial presses remove all the air, folding the mattress flat.
- It’s rolled tightly and placed into a compact cylinder, boxed, ready for delivery.
When you open the box at home, your mattress expands back to its full size within minutes.
Does Compression Damage the Mattress?
This is one of the most common questions we get and the answer is no.
The integrity of the foam and the mattress cover is fully preserved. Once unboxed, the mattress recovers to its original shape and performance. But there’s a catch: only high-quality foams can handle compression.
- Low-density or filler foams won’t bounce back.
- Rebonded foams (made from recycled scraps) can’t be compressed at all.
That’s why Sloom only uses High-Density Pure Foam with no fillers. It’s built to withstand compression, recover fully, and deliver the long-lasting comfort you expect.
Why Local Compression Matters
Even the best foams can’t stay compressed forever. After about two months, a mattress kept in a compressed state may start to lose some firmness.
That’s why it’s important to buy from a local brand. With imported mattresses, you have no way of knowing how long they’ve been compressed. By choosing Sloom, you get a mattress that’s proudly manufactured in South Africa, compressed locally, and shipped directly to your door.
What About the Base?
A mattress is only as good as the base it rests on. While bases can’t be compressed, they can be flat-packed for easy shipping.
At Sloom, we developed a flat-pack base that’s sturdy, modern, and easy to assemble at home. Unlike imported flat-pack options (often flimsy and unstable), ours is designed to support the same weight as the mattress and built to last.
Why Sloom Chose This Path
Creating a bed-in-a-box in South Africa wasn’t simple. Local manufacturers were hesitant to innovate, and minimum order requirements made it difficult to get started. Importing would have been easier but we wanted to build something proudly South African, designed for our market, on par with global innovation.
Today, the result is a mattress that combines local craftsmanship with world-class technology - compressed, delivered, and ready to change the way you sleep.
Final Thoughts
The bed-in-a-box is more than just clever packaging - it’s a smarter way to buy, ship, and enjoy a mattress. By compressing our mattresses, we make delivery easier, faster, and more affordable, without compromising on quality.
At Sloom, we use only high-density, pure foams that recover perfectly, paired with a locally made flat-pack base. The result? A modern, sustainable sleep solution that gives you comfort from the very first night.
Because when you rest better, you live better.