Mattress Forum

The boxes were sort of beat up when they arrived but there was no damage inside.  I DO NOT recommend taking the boxes into the house/bedroom.  They were pretty dirty and left some black marks on the carpet.

Here's what was inside the 3 boxes.  All the components for the mattress.  In the 7 bags on the left are the 6 cores and the convolute pad that goes on top.  All of the latex components are double bagged.  The inner bag is vacuum sealed to compress the latex.  The bag to the right is the mattress material - top and bottom.  Each bag has a tag to indicate what is inside.

Here I've placed the bottom part of the mattress enclosure on top of the box spring and folded down the sides in preparation for the latex cores.

Taking a latex core out of the first bag.  As I mentioned earlier, there is a second bag that is vacuum sealed.  If you look closely, you can see the wrinkled plastic from the second bag.

Showing the second bag open and the latex core folded up inside.  The latex doesn't expand all that much but vacuum sealing it certainly makes it less bulky for shipping.

The latex core is a bit longer than the mattress enclosure seam on both ends.  However, this will not be a problem when zipping up the enclosure.

Each core is labeled on one end to indicate size, firmness, etc.  The labeled end should be at the foot of the bed.

Here's an end view after all the cores have been laid in place.  They were not difficult at all to place.  It is fairly easy to move them and adjust as necessary.  Next comes the convolute pad that goes on top.

Here's the convolute pad.  OOPS!  Houston, we have a problem.  They sent a 7th core instead of the pad.  I contacted Flobeds and I had a new convolute pad in 2 days.  On to the RIGHT photo...

Here's the bed with the convolute pad on top.  One side is flat and one side is like an egg carton.  Place the egg carton side up.  Now you are ready to zip it all up.

As you can kind of see from this photo, the mattress enclosure material seems to fairly heavy duty and of nice quality.  The zipper attaches at the foot of the bed in the middle.  The photo shows the begining of the zipping process.

I assembled the bed the first time without the convolute pad and used it that way for 2 nights.  After adding the pad, I realized the mattress top has sort of a flap on it.  Flip this down so it surrounds the latex as you zip.  The convolute sort of sticks out and flipping down this material definitely makes it easier to zip.

Here it is all neatly zipped up.  I think it looks pretty good in general.

I found the bed to be pretty cold compared to the previous mattress.  I think it's a combination of latex being different than memory foam and the fact that it is winter here in Minnesota.  So, because I didn't want to feel cold all night long for a 3rd night, I picked up a fiber bed at Kohl's.  I personally think this fiber bed is a little too thick.  Someone on the forum had mentioned the SnugFleece Original mattress topper.  I will look into getting something like that if this doesn't work out..  For now, I think I will be moving the cores around to make things a little firmer on the side I sleep on.  The bed seemed very  good in terms of firmness until I added the fiber bed.

Here is the current set-up for the cores:

• Side A top to bottom  (where I sleep):  Firm, XFirm, Firm
• Side B:  Medium, Firm, XFirm

I ordered it this way to give me more options for moving things around after the bed arrived.  I suspect I will be doing some core exchanges before the 90 days are up.  I don't think I need the medium.

Today I plan to pull the XFirm from side B and place it on top on side A and see if that takes out some of the extra softeness due to the fiber bed.  I will also remove the actual mattress pad as it is pretty thick and I'm sure it adds to the softness.  That will leave a moisture cover on the bed and then the fiber bed.

The latex is pretty springy.  With the memory foam bed, even when it was brand new, there were seemingly permanent indentations in the bed after one night sleeping on it.  Not so with the Flobed.  It does sink in where your body curves out and then nicely supports the other parts of the body.  When you get off the bed, it immediately springs back into shape.

That's about all I can think of to say for now.  I can always add more photos if there is something specific you want to see.