Australian Made & Owned
Technical Information
BedGuard Waterproof Mattress Technical Data
Quality Assurance and Standards
Australian-made mattress supplier BedGuard takes your health and safety seriously. We think it’s important to deliver and maintain the highest standards in mattress protection, to keep Australian kids and families healthy and safe.
Our Fully Integrated Bonded Waterproof Technology as part of construction. Protecting you and your family against spills and nasties that can happen from day to day living.
On-Site Australian Production
BedGuard mattresses are made entirely on site in Australia allowing us to use the highest quality fabrics and materials available plus the benefit of direct control over our strict quality benchmarks and standards. Skillfully constructed and rigorously tested, our mattresses not only fully comply with both the highest UK and Australian standards.
Highest Grade Damask Fabric
BedGuard mattresses’ damask fabric is loomed in Victoria by us and is of the highest standard available. Using warp and weft threads, our woven damask is dense, extremely durable and long-lasting, creating the ideal fabric for the longest wearing, lowest maintenance mattresses in Australia.
Superior Protection is Quality Assured
With BedGuard’s exclusive 2-treatment process, our mattresses’ unique superior protection is quality assured through every stage of development.
Our Dual Treatment Process
Designed, developed and implemented by BedGuard specifically for Australian conditions, this process is unique to BedGuard mattresses and incorporates our exclusively patented treatments: HealthGuard™ and BedGuard™.
The HealthGuard™ Treatment
Applied to the woven damask fabric. HealthGuard™ is an anti-dustmite and anti-bacterial treatment.
Requirement Status
Flame Retardant Compliant
UK Retardant Standards
- BS7717
- EN597.1
- EN597.2
Australian Testing Method
- AS2001.2.13-1987
This first treatment is then cured by heat bonding to the fabric, sealing the treatment in.
Stitching and Quilting
After the 1st treatment, fabric is despatched to our quilting facility. Stitched to 24mm comfort density Dunlop foam layer in a tight small/large pattern. This exceeds industry standards by double.
Industry Standard
- 12mm foam layer
- wide needle pattern
BedGuard Standard
- 24mm Dunlop Foam
- tight small/large pattern
- small needle setting
The BedGuard™ Treatment
After quilting, the fabric is despatched to our application facility. BedGuard™ is an inert polymer that once cured to our HealthGuard™ treatment becomes a isotactic bond which is completely stable with no off-gassing.
Applied and cured in our oven by heating to 100 plus Celsius, the treatment bonds and encapsulates the quilting including the needle point entry making our mattresses impenetrable to liquids, solids and odours.
The BedGuard™ isotactic bond is cured to the fabric. The heat in the curing process causes the fabric yarns’ molecules to sacrifice themselves to the BedGuard™ molecules; creating a tighter “weave” and impervious surface.
Industry Standard
Polymer
Natural or synthetic compound that consists of large molecules made of many chemically bonded smaller identical molecules.
Compound
A thing that is composed of two or more separate elements.
Isotactic
Having or relating to a stereochemical regularity of structure in the repeating units of a polymer.
Inner Springs
Includes 4mm heavy duty edge wire and edge clips inserted to resist collapse of the border of the mattress.
Precision Coil Integration
The finished quilting is transferred to our inner spring facility where high-tensile springs are inserted. Our construction ensures lateral stability and edge-to-edge support for long-term durability.
- Reinforced structural border
CSIRO Rates BedGuard Waterproof Mattresses As “Excellent”
The BedGuard Treatment has been rated as having “Excellent resistance to water penetration of surface”. Using the AATCC TM 118-2007 Water Repellency testing method, CSIRO confirmed it’s ability to support Water Solution No 6 (60% Water / 40% Isopropanol).