Due to my daughter having asthma I won’t open the second mattress and will have to get legal advised. A new comforter? I want to be part of this law suit …sue them and get us money for all this trouble and health issue …, I never took my cover off and I washed the sheets and I laid a black shirt on the mattress and I noticed sparkles on the shirt…I read about this…anyway I do not know what made this mattress leak ..but I shined a flashlight in there, no one sleeps in there..its a guest room..I do not see anymore…I had laid books on the mattress so I checked them with a flashlight in a dark room but seen nothing ..I have put plastic over it and I am incasing it and throwing it away but something needs to be done…hopefully, …I keep looking with a flashlight…the company said they would replace it…I do not want another poison mattress they should pay me …. We checked the tag and it said it the inner cover contains 62% Glass Fiber, 30% Modacrylic and 8% Cotton. We even had to have a professional company come to the house to remove the glass strands from the vents, duct work, tile, and every nook and cranny in that side of the house. It had a whole zipper outlining it and never had a label. here i thought it was supposed to be this way till i saw this. I’m planning to examine the health impacts of this and seek compensation. My boyfriend has been having skin problems since shortly after we got the mattress. Absolute nightmare with shards of glass fibers all over the place. Virtue71@hotmail.com Zinus caused us multiple issues: skin & eye irritations, had to throw away most of our bedroom contents, etc. Welcome Guide. I bought two Zinus mattresses for my kids a couple years ago!!! We need to be refunded and compensated appropriately. I have photographic evidence of the shedding of the fiberglass and am in the process of getting a professional to come and test my home for the spread of the material and discuss a plan to perform a clean up of the whole house. Please add me to the list as well! But at the same time, I'd like to think that the manufacturers wouldn't be stupid enough to sell something that dangerous under regular use, and most of the complaints are from user-error, people who either didn't notice the label or weren't sufficiently warned about removing the cover first. High-quality, foam-based products are now available for way less money than before and with “green” and eco-friendly … I couldn’t figure out where they were coming from. I purchased one last year. 11 December, 2018 . I did remove it 2-3 times this year. It offers the most comfort during the sleeping process, and it also provides great support. We’ve been dealing with the same issue. Then I realized something. How do you sign up for the lawsuit? is_redirect && ! The fiberglass is everywhere. Along with the mattress and frame of bed which is also. If it contains any percentage of "glass fiber," then it's safer to just find a different brand. We purchased this mattress in January of 2018. We purchased a Zinus and have been suffering from it living in an RV while we try and clean it out of the house. I’m not sure where go from here and how to clean this up. Please add me. Upon taking it off, fibers have spread across my daughters whole room and a bit around the house. I purchased this mattress in January 2017 from Amazon. My husband and i have Been itching for two months with dermatologist saying its contact dermatitis. Yes I have a zinus mattress and both my self and my dog are dealing with extremely bad itching due to small slivers of fiberglass I’ve been having problems with my breathing and coughing a lot I just found this out tonight and have no clue what to do with covid going on i don’t have the money to get a new mattress and even if I did all the stores are closed its freezing outside so can’t sleep in my vehicle my entire room is covered in fibers I’m losing my mind. Here are some that have been reported to use fiberglass. This is scary. I have read that this fibers can be harmful to lungs and skin if exposed for long period. We have what was dubbed ‘essential’ jobs and have been essentially lucky thus far not to have any exposure…. Because of mandatory flammability standards for mattresses, some companies are putting fiberglass in the mattresses to meet the guidelines, while others are adding chemicals. Now when I checked the tag it says it does have 50% fiberglass. I purchased a Zinus mattress in 2017 and today I removed the cover to wash it since it was stained. There needs to be something done about this! Itching from the fiberglass that has somehow leaked through the mattress within five days of owning it. Now that I am finding out about how it impacts us on a health level, my concern is heightened and am curious about how to go forward from this. The “fiberglass” content in the label shows 58% of the inner FR mattresses cover. I removed the zippered cover to give the cover a thourough cleaning and I was stunned to observe the glass particles on top of the foam ( and now floating about the room.) I have noticed that it’s now on my couches. Sure enough afterwards we noticed small particles everywhere and quick google search led me here. The tag gave cleaning care instructions but also states the inner cover is 100% glass fiber! When fiberglass is trimmed, sanded, or sawed, construction workers may touch or inhale the resulting dust. The tightest weaves are found in surfboards, hockey sticks and racing car bodies. We started to notice little white shiney hair like particles everywhere on just about everything we owned inside our home. I don’t recall seeing a label mentioning non-removal of the cover. I slept without the cover for over a mo th not knowing and I am left with devastating lung problems periodically I have terrible bronchitis so bad I cannot talk because I have a terrible urge to cough every 5 seconds. Decided to try and clean it today. This has been traumatizing honestly. This is very unsettling and frustrating due to me purchasing this zinus mattress 3 years plus ago and I am now just finding out I have glass fibers everywhere. We are hoping action is being taking because of this issue, we will be having or PCP order us chest xrays and lab work to test for fiberglass. One more … 2020, Chandler says she removed the outer cover of her mattress in order to clean it in her washing machine. Never been completely satisfied with the product to begin with. Fiberglass Exposure. Especially, since the materials used in making memory foam mattresses are artificially made. I got all my bedding all my cloths and the took the mattress cover off to wash everything. I just realized that a mattress i purchased from Modway Caroline in 2018 has been leaking fiberglass as well. Sure enough, our bed was wrapped in a glass blanket. We have two of these and are now just learning and seeing this problem. It's therefore surprising that mattress companies would use fiberglass, even if it keeps their costs lower. Unknowingly, I thought it was the sheet set, and I threw it away and bought another. My entire house and everything inside was covered in tiny shards of glass. Who would knowingly purchase a bed with glass shards?! Why in the world would Zinus make the cover with a zipper if it should not be unzipped, even if you have a notice on the tag? Zinus Sleep Master Ultima Comfort Memory Foam, Charles P Rogers Powercore Estate 5000 Mattress, Casper Element (Formerly Casper Essential) Mattress Review, Dreamfoam Ultimate Dreams Eurotop Latex Mattress. I noticed it today 11/21/20. I began itching everywhere and got in the shower (did nothing). We have been breathing this in for well over 6months apparently. Its EVERYWHERE! So, I just put a flat sheet over the bed and slept on it as is with my comforter, for the night. You’ve seen in the above article just a few a the ways that mattress companies attempt to fool you into thinking their mattress is safe, when nothing could be further from the truth. It's therefore surprising that mattress companies would use fiberglass, even if it keeps their costs lower.