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Hi everyone! First post here. My wife and I are seriously in need of a new mattress and after researching and locally investigating sleep number, inner spring, and latex... we have decided to give latex a try. We will be ordering a King size in the next 2 weeks from an online store, probably SleepEZ, Flobeds or Habitat. Though I like the idea of the "stacker" style mattress, my wife is concerned that this will make it more complex & confusing (too many options) to figure out what we are most happy with. Basically that we will be constantly tweaking and second guessing the layer combinations instead of just enjoying and letting ourselves adjust. For this reason I am at least looking into a couple of ready to go "solid" mattresses before deciding which to buy. Habitat appears to make a nice mattress in this style, but they seem overpriced for the thickness of latex and the cover that you get for the money. I guess you are paying for the "organic" factor with them. SleepEZ makes a "factory special" 1 piece 8" mattress that seems to directly compete with the Habitat 8" mattress for $804.00 less in King size. Both appear to be constructed of a combination of organic "Sri-Lankan" Dunlop and Talalay. The SleepEZ has an even more minimalistic cover, but that certainly doesn't justify the huge price difference, right? I mean, I can put a super nice wool cover on it for way less than that. Any experience or thoughts on these mattresses or why the Habitat is worth 800 bucks more? Here are URLs for each product in question. |
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All good points. The Sleepez is a fine quality mattress, and my daughter is happy with hers. I would suggest if you go that route, seeing as you are over 200 lbs, that you order your layers (at least on your side) on the firmer size. Even a very firm latex mattress has some resiliance to provide cushioning against pressure points. My Flobed is three layers of 36 ILD latex (+ the topper). My husband, who weighs ~ 180lbs, has two layers of 36 ILD and one layer of 32 ILD. Also, an important point to be aware of is that Sleepez and Flobeds seem to define "soft," "medium," and "firm" differently. Be sure to look on both websites and note the ILD ranges for the s-m-f designations. What is firm on Flobeds' website is medium on Sleepez, for example (or it might be the other way around). One more anecdote I will share. My first latex bed purchase was actually a premade latex mattress from a local mattress store. I didn't realize what firmness I needed, I was told the floor model was 32 ILD, it was comfortable, and I ordered it. When the mattress came, I was bottoming out. I called them and the mattress they sent was only 28 ILD - waaay too soft for my heavy body. This company offered 30 days of "comfort exchanges," and they wanted to take it back and put a firmer layer inside. However, how was I to know whether the next try would be firm enough? Maybe yes, maybe no. It was going to take them a week to pick the mattress up, change it, and send it back to me. With only a 30 day comfort exchange policy, I would at most have been able to do a few exchanges, and it might never have been right . . .and then $2k wasted, flushed down the toilet. I got them to agree to take the mattress back, turned around and called Flobeds, and have had nothing but exceptional service and a mattress that is exactly the right firmness for my needs. Like I said before, I never did an exchange with Sleepez, but you are correct, I don't think I've heard any complaints about their customer service either. |
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KimberlyH wrote: 1) The Sleepez cover is not nearly as nice as the Flobeds cover. Flobeds = soft knit cotton quilted to wool on all sides of the mattress. Sleepez = woven cotton with wool quilted to only the top. It's servicable and looks like a mattress cover, it's just not as luxurious as the Flobeds cover. The reason I ask is that I've had an opportunity to try out several makes and models of finished latex mattresses (many of them side by side), and the one that felt best was the Royal Pedic with its wonderful, thick quilted cotton/wool cover with a large weave pattern. It may seem like a small detail in the grand scheme of things but none of the other talalay mattresses felt as luxurious despite some otherwise-similar firmness levels. The Royal Pedic seemed nice overall but is very expensive with no comfort guarantees etc, so I'm wondering if any of the stacker brands come with quilted covers that can compare as I think this is an important point for us.
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