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I agree with Catherine.  I think you are just as well served with a world class with the heavy gauge coil.  A friend just got one awhile back and he loves it.  I love the feel of BR nxg.  I asked our local dealer about the BR black bed (because Sleep Country was really pushing me on them), and she says them and Macys have exclusives on them.  They also have very high exclusive prices on them, I noticed.  Assuming since their world class beds were $700 more than the local dealer.  I wouldn't get to caught up in all the fancy lingo and exotic materials they describe.  Last I checked the world class was about $1499 in the store.  BR black was more than twice that.  No thanks. Theres way better beds out there at that price point.  Stearns & Foster estate line might be more similar to the...

Yesterday I finally got to visit my friends who had said they wanted to sell an old but barely used innerspring mattress. We had a lovely visit, but I didn't get a good look at the mattress; and for various reasons, they seem not to be ready to part with it after all. So that's out, and I'm back to square one.

Did some mattress shopping on Saturday, but nothing knocked my socks off.   Tried various memory-foam mattresses; hated them.   Found the continuous-coil Sertas to be quite uncomfortable (hard on the shoulders).   Didn't find anything really comfortable at Jamestown Mattress.   Nor at City Mattress -- although I didn't spend much time on any given mattress there, and had a salesman talking at me the whole time I was there.  He seemed a bit sad about the decline of Stearns & Foster (after it got bought...

We did mattress surgery and bought latex foam from FBM. While I think the quality is fine, there are many folks here that say the 20 is more like a 28 ILD. I haven't personally tried any other latex so I can't compare, but I can attest to the fact that the 2" of 32 and the 1" of 20 (supposedly) is VERY firm on top of our Stearns and Foster coils. We just ordered a 2" 22 ILD natural latex topper from Arizona mattress. The price was good and I was told by someone at Arizona that their natural latex is from Latex International. Hopefully that will help us soften up our bed enough to get a better nights sleep.

For the previous poster who said the memory foam was comfortable but too hot, I've heard lots of positive reviews about a wool mattress pad -- it...

I'm sorry if I didn't provide enough details. Let me know if this clears things up more :) My mattress surgery story is here with pics. Our Stearns and Foster is an innerspring mattress. We had probelms with body impressions and lack of support over time (on an originally firm and wonderful mattress)  so we ripped out the foam and were left with just the innersring. Once the foam was out, we looked carefully at the springs and box springs and didn't note any sagging problems that we could see or feel. We got the latex to go on top of the springs -- otherwise if we were just going all latex we would have had a firmer base to start with. I still don't suspect any isses with our foundation. We now just need to soften up what has become a ridiculously firm mattress for 2 side sleepers.

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Last fall (I think it was last fall) -- we got inspired by the folks here and cut open our 7 yr old Stearns and Foster E King mattress (posted pics here too). We pulled out all the crappy foam and put in 2" of 32 and 1" of 20 ILD latex from Foam by Mail. We have tried a Cuddlebed topper from Costco and I liked it at first -- but now -- meh-- so we took it off. We had a piece of 2" Overstock memory foam that we took out -- I just felt it was beginning to 'lose its memory'. Then we tried a different 2" MF topper from Costco -- I REALLY didn't like that -- my hips hurt! We tried both of the MF on top and under the FBM 20. So now we are sleeping on just the latex. I've read here that...

I selected a Stearns and Foster 'Heathstone' plush mattress from Sears last June and gave it a couple weeks before knowing I didn't want to spend the next 8+ years on it.  I have a damaged right shoulder.  Tore the joint up years ago doing a bench press not warmed up and frankly wish I had never messed around with any barbell weights.  I'm not on sports teams.  8 years later, finally found a specialist in San Francisco, a pioneer in shoulder surgery who did an acromioplasty to make room for the impinged rotator cuff.  It helped but will always hurt a bit every day.

 

So, I don't get to sleep on my right shoulder in any bed out there.  The Stearns and Foster didn't allow it.  It felt pretty plush in the store, but the reality was the construction was cheap batting in the...

I bought a S&F pillowtop last spring. At first it was simply heaven...LOVED it....then the middle started to sag. I couldn't believe that this expensive, top of the line bed could be sagging but it was. I found this forum while looking for an answer and found out that even on this costly mattress, the pillowtop was filled with cheap foam that quickly compressed and left me sleeping in a pit that made it hard to turn over or even get out of it. Luckily this was within the "comfort exchange " period, so I took the advice of people here, exchanged it for a firm mattress, then customized it with toppers to the perfect softness and support I need.

If you want an innerspring mattress, I might suggest you do the same. A firm S&F is, IMO, pretty good quality.

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I really hate you had a very difficult time shopping for a mattress, but I can add some advice for comparison shopping to make it a little more simple. If you decided you liked a model at one store then all you need to do is ask for a copy of the specs for that mattress and then go comparison shopping with the spec sheet. The other retailers should be able to show you the same mattress with a different name and different cover if they carry that model. If not they will have something very close or similar. Get Coil type (Pocketed, offset, bonnell, etc..), number of coils, gauge of wire and number of turns in the coil. The lower the number of the guage of wire the thicker the wire and the firmer the coil. The more turns or rotations in the coil the more durable the spring...

I would strongly suggest that you do a lot more research re: finding a decent mattress! (I also agree about avoiding the pillowtops - they get squishy quickly and you sink into the "valley"...it will really aggravate your back then).  I bought a firm Serta several years ago and w/in 2 months it was sagging.  I exchanged two times and each mattress began sagging very quickly.  I have since learned (via all of these forums) to avoid the "3 S's" (I guess that means Serta, Simmons and Sealy plus a lot of folks are not gung ho on Stearns and Foster).  My latest purchase was a sleep by numbers bed since our daugher & son-in-law have them and their guest room mattress was very comfortable.  Another mistake (and $1,200 down the drain).  I'm always having to pump air into it (if you want to pay $159 they'll send someone out...

WEll went back to my store with my I Comfort issues and if I want I can do a return, however there was not one single bed in the place I honestly can say I would replace it with.. I tried the Sterns & Foster with a pillow top, but I know I would just be buying the fancy pillow top been there done that and they don't last any time, then I laid on the one that didn't have the pillow top and it felt like a torture chamber.. and the Sealy Posterpedics were not even close to as good as the Stearns and from then it went completely down hill.  I feel like the woman above that sinking in feeling.. my pressure points now are about done in..one bad night after the other and my husband sleeps right on through and loves this bed.    I guess I will...