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Hi all,
After a short 5 years, our Simmons Beautyrest Black Exquisite mattress has large sag spots where my wife & I sleep. We've looked at new Latex Bliss mattresses and like them alot, then I came across the posts on Mattress Surgery and became curious. The bed is basically a 12" mattress with about a 4.5" firm pillow top sewn on. It's a real problem trying to find deep pocket sheets to fit! After cutting a couple of inspection holes, it looks like the mattress is (from the bottom up), 7.5" of mattress springs, 2" of foam, 1" of foam, 1/2" of some cloth/mesh material. The topper is foam with some latex in it. We really like the feel of the Latex Bliss Entice (3.0 Hybrid) & Beautiful (Natural) mattresses and would be shooting for a similar feel. So our questions are: 1) Just keeping the mattress springs, what would be some suggested latex layers & ILDs ? 2) How do you keep everything in place (zipper enclosure)?? 3) Does anyone make a Topper similar to the Entice's gel cover? We would like to bring the height of the mattress down, so any kind of latex/foam layers in the 4 - 6" range would be fine. Thanks for everyone's input! Once we get everything decided and ordered, I would be happy to post pics of the surgery for others. This message was modified Oct 12, 2012 by plasma411
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Well, I finally had time to take the pillowtop apart. There was a 1" foam piece, but the surprise was under it. A 3" Latex International 40 ILD Talalay topper! What was more surprising was to see the indentations of our bodies in the Latex. I was under the impression that Latex rebounded to its original shape. The Latex is about 5 years old, but that seems rather quick to deteriorate. I'm revisiting if I want to rebuild the mattress with Latex again. I may switch to memory foam. Any thoughts ? |
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plasma411 wrote: Well, I finally had time to take the pillowtop apart. There was a 1" foam piece, but the surprise was under it. A 3" Latex International 40 ILD Talalay topper! What was more surprising was to see the indentations of our bodies in the Latex. I was under the impression that Latex rebounded to its original shape. The Latex is about 5 years old, but that seems rather quick to deteriorate. I'm revisiting if I want to rebuild the mattress with Latex again. I may switch to memory foam. Any thoughts ? Some thoughts:
It's a mystery or just some bad Latex. GK |