Latex mattresses sleeping too hot..... or whatever!
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I will try to keep this short, as I have not finished my experimentation. I have been experimenting with mattress topper's. I have a FloBeds all natural latex mattress. It sleeps wonderfully for me. I originally put on as a topper, or cover if you prefer, my old left over from my waterbed days very thin cotton protective cover. I had no problems with it sleeping hot. But I decided since it was wearing out to try out a new thicker all cotton cover. I made the mistake of not washing this new cotton cover and then stretching it too tightly over the mattress. This was uncomfortable. It firmed up the sleeping experience to a much greater degree than I thought possible. So I decided to try sleeping right on top of the mattress with only a sheet between me and the mattress cover. This felt great at first as it was a softer experience. Then one night when it was quite cold I turned up the heat on our furnace. I normally sleep in a bedroom that is 69 to 71°F. This night the temperature got up to 74°. I woke up in the middle of the night with the bed feeling quite hot. I turned the temperature back down and this corrected the problem. But I decided to put back on the old mattress cover, or protective topper if you prefer to call it that. This put everything back the way it was originally.... quite comfortable. I was going to wait and make this report after I once again tried the new mattress topper that is 100% cotton, since I have washed it and we'll put it back on without stretching it tightly over the mattress. I'm hoping this will work. But if not I will go shopping to replace my old wore out cover with something as similar as I can find. The point to all this rhetoric is the fact that a lot of folks are having some kind of difficulty finding a comfortable configuration vis-à-vis beds sleeping too hot or being too soft,or being too hard. What I'm finding is that the cover we sleep on, what it's made out of, how thick it is, and how tightly it is stretch over the mattress can make a great deal of difference in the way the bed feels to us. It's a very interesting conundrum. The beat goes on!  This message was modified Feb 7, 2010 by eagle2
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Re: Latex mattresses sleeping too hot..... or whatever!
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jimsocal wrote: In the past I have found that using my wool pad tended to throw off my support level. But now I am using my wool mattress pad and it does seem to make me sleep cooler AND it feels fine on my back. I am using one of the ones from this company. I don't know which one it is as I bought it a long time ago but it's about 2" thick but when you squeeze it it goes down to about 1/2": http://www.woolenmill.com/sections/Wool_Mattress_Pads.php Says they have a 30 day trial but I'm not sure how that works since you can't legally re-sell mattress pads I don't think. Budgy? [By the way, when I use the LINK icon above to create a clickable link, I have to first do it, then go back and re-edit my post and do it again, then it works the 2nd time. This is a very old and clunky forum! No "subscriptions" or "notifications" etc. and clunky ways of doing things. But hey, it works! And I'm glad it's here.] really depends on where you are. I know in NJ you cannot even legally re-sell a mattress so there is no comfort exchange type of policies there at all. technically I am allowed to re-sell a used topper so long as I make someone aware that it has been used, but our policy is no returns on these types of items once they have been taken out of their packaging. |