Mattress Forum

At one time I had a latex mattress from foam-by-mail in the bed, but contrary to what someone at sleep like a bear told me, it did not work in a murphy bed because it would tend to slide and bunch when the bed was raised. I eventually cut that mattress down and moved it to one of my kid beds.

During online search I came across Original Mattress Factory which I was familiar with from advertising. They had a nice website and several locations around me. I wanted to take the mattress home with me so I called the nearest store. The guy was very friendly on the phone and absolutely not pushy. He said they had limited stock so he directed me to another store where I would be able to pick up the mattress. He also said I would save 2% in sales tax at that location. I called that store and again the guy was very friendly - he pointed out that there were other stores closer to me that would likely have the mattress in stock. He offered to call the stores and call me back.

The store I went to was in an industrial area and the building was showing it's age but It was well lit and clean inside. The salesman was helpful and attentive, but he seemed pretty new and couldn't really answer some of my more technical questions when it went off his standard sales pitch. He didn't really try to bluff the answers.

They make flippable mattresses, but the best part was they had cut away samples of all the mattresses so you could see exactly the construction inside. They also had sample cutaways of competitor products. It looked like the pillow top mattresses had layers of foam that would break down over time, but at least you could tell what to avoid and it would be easy to pick a mattress with minimal padding and plan to add your own latex topper if needed. Apparently they also sell a good latex mattress but I wasn't in the market for one of them.