Sleep easy: Give your bed a makeover with a topper or mattress

Get set to hibernate with the best in toppers and mattresses. Here's how to do it, and we reveal our top picks

Toppers can add comfort but they cannot fix a failing bed with structural issues. File picture

Having helped my adult child shuffle 1,400 boxes into her shared rental accommodation, we were confronted (yet again) with a doddery, deflated, open-spring mattress. This one was reasonably clean, but the let-down of a jaded bed put some wah-wah-wah on the jollity of move-in day. 

Satisfied that there was no ridiculous topography of hills and valleys indicating actual collapse, we cleaned it and tenderly shrouded the elderly trampoline in two cheap mattress protectors and a 3cm topper.