Mattress Forum

I am thinking about getting simple PU base to put the latex on top of. Maybe some memory foam under the latex as well since it is at such a good price point at FBM. Little background. 5'10" , 155. I toss and turn all night. Always have so not sure it is the bed. Would love to wake up completely refreshed one morning. 

What is the absolute minimum amount of PU one should have as there base. How many inches before you bottom out so to speak. At first I was just going to get 3" of lux and 3" of hd36. The regular would be fine for me. I don't intent to get much more than 5 years out of this. I'm look at this as more of a cheap experiment. If i find the magic combination I could always buy the better materials when these go bad. A couple years ago people were just buying 5" of either LUX or HD36, then adding more to that. Has anyone laid on 2 or 3 inchs of LUX by itself? Does it bottom out? Is HD36 much softer. I read a post of a guy who put 1" of LUX above his springs and below of 3"s of MF and it made the bed much firmer. Makes me this this LUX is pretty firm, even 1 inch of it. 

I do know if I fold my latex over so that it is 4"s high on the floor it bottoms out. 

So what is the mnimum base one can go with bottoming out? Then from there I can add to my comfort layers to find the best fit. 

For example

5 or 6 " LUX

5 or 6" HD36

3" LUX + 3"HD36 

2"LUX +2"HD36

2" LUX + 2" HD36 +2 " supersoft PU

I understand that comfort is a hugely personal thing and what is comfortable to one is not to another. So if anyone has these PU bases if they could give me an idea of what they got and if they like them or if they would have change their order. 

Also what everyones opinion of 3 1" pieces vs 1 3" piece. Will they have the same compression and feel. I have had 3 1" pieces of latex in the past and always felt 1 3" piece would feel more solid. 

thanks in advance for any help/info

Jay