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Hi - newbie here whose been following these boards for a few months during a painful mattress hunting saga. I'm writing with a question about flobeds. We purchased one (4 layer, blended talalay) and are having ridiculous motion transfer issues. I can literally feel my partner sniff. We started out with M/F/XF on both sides as per Dewey's recommendation. but it was way too soft (or too something, very uncomfortable). So we flipped it around to XF/F/M (that is, M on the bottom) while we wait for Superfirms to swap out the mediums. Dewey says he thinks swapping the M for a SF on the bottom will take care of the motion transfer issues, but I'm not yet convinced and am looking for radical solutions. Since memory foam seems to do especially well at soaking up motion (in our limited - painful - experience with a tempur-pedic deluxe), I was thinking of 1) getting flobeds to split the convoluted topper, and 2) taking a 2 inch thick piece of 5lb memory foam and sticking it in the *seam* between the two split sides inside the mattress. In other words, running a 11.25wide X 80 long x 2 inch piece of memory foam down the middle. Has anyone done anything like this? Do you think it would help, or is latex already good at reducing motion transfer and I'm looking in the wrong place for a problem fix? Is this nuts? Thoughts much appreciated. Thanks for all the interesting posts! |
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I've seen a few comments about the "thicker" latex beds being "jiggly". Some ideas that may affect this and might be worth testing (beside the floor problem that is) All of this of course is assuming that the platform on the bed is very solid (and it looks like it is) and not contributing to the problem. How much the platform is playing a role in this in combination with the creaky floor can be tested by sleeping with the mattress on the floor and seeing if there is any change (assuming you find a solid part of the floor lol). Second thing that could be causing or contributing to this is a softer (more jiggly) layer of latex on the bottom of the bed. This is the direction Dewey seems to be going and should be easily testable. My last idea is that the layers may not be enclosed tightly enough in the cover or that the cover has stretched a bit and that is allowing for slightly more movement in a mattress this thick. The guy who made my mattress specially reinforced the cover and made a tighter re-inforced up and down corded seam on the top and bottom because I told him that I would be putting it on an adjustable bed and he wanted to make sure that the layers stayed tight inside the ticking. You may be able to test this by seeing if you could put either a thin piece of foam or a mattress cover inside the enclosure to make it tighter and see if that helps. This could also compress the softer layer on the bottom and make it less "jiggly". Latex is typically very good at reducing motion transfer (close to memory foam) but if there is movement in softer bottom layers this could be magnified in a thicker bed leading to a "jiggle" kind of feeling rather than a "through the top layers" type of feeling. Phoenix This message was modified Oct 17, 2010 by Phoenix
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