| I have a year old memory foam made by local bedding company. It is on top of a platform bed with drawers. The mattress felt fine in the store on the slat foundation, but I wake up aching every morning. Would the difference be between the solid wood and slats? They actually moved the display mattress onto an box spring and it felt much better, but I dould then feel movement on other side of the bed. Worst part is that I can go sleep on motel beds and feel fine in the morning. Help! |
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Do any motels use anything but innerspring mattresses? Slats do not provide much "give" unless they are flexible slats. They may flex a tiny bit, but that depends on what material they are made of, how thick they are, and how many of them there are. A slat foundation with slats spaced 1.5" to 2.5" as is typically recommended for foam mattresses is going to be pretty rigid even if the slats are made of garden variety 1x3 pine. I don't know what "more support than a foam mattress can give you" means. I weigh 240 lbs and my all-foam mattress is more than supportive, and it's not even the most firm latex that's available. I will say that it seems to be harder to get a foam mattress that is both supportive AND comfortable, given how many of us fuss and fight to achieve a happy balance. This message was modified Nov 14, 2007 by haysdb
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Some high-end hotels actually have latex mattresses. If you're talking Comfort Inn -- innersprings for sure... or maybe concrete. Slat foundations flex, so yeah, that qualifies as more "give." A platform foundation is just hard and unyielding. Kind of like the floor. I had a latex mattress, 32, 38, 44 ILD. Plenty of support. Just not the right kind of support. Foam, both latex and MF is conforming. One of the causes of back pain is lack of rigid support. Not all innerspring mattresses provide rigid support. Pocketed Coils for instance provide a level of support similar to latex. If Jacquie slept comfortably on a motel mattress she may need the rigid support of a Bonnel coil system. On the other hand she might just be bottoming out into a hard foundation. If her year-old MF mattress is not very high quality it may have softened to the point where she's hammocking into it. |