I made my own "Hybrid" mattress. Has anyone else done the same? What works for you?
| I say hybrid because I artfully combined 4 different materials with VERY different properties. Traditional poly foam, egg-crate poly foam, memory foam and wool. After months of trial and error, I found my dream mattress.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set DIRECTLY on the floor (for extra stability), I made an extra long twin mattress composed of the following: 12" thick poly foam with an IFD of 50 (very firm), topped by 4" of poly foam with an IFD of 35 (moderately firm) covered with 2" of 5.3lb/ft3 Sensus foam with an IFD of 15 (soft) topped off with 2" of egg-crate poly foam with an IFD of 35 (I found that by putting the traditional poly egg-crate OVER the memory foam undid that "squishy" feeling and and gave the mattress a nicely balanced responsiveness. I covered all that with a HEAVY weight (I think it weighs 60 lbs!) wool comforter (which gave it even more textural evenness), sealed it up with a clothed-vinyl mattress cover, added a fitted cotton mattress pad over THAT, added sheets and AHHHHHHHH. My perfect mattress. |
Re: I made my own "Hybrid" mattress. Has anyone else done the same? What works for you?
| Pete, do you have any mattress / mattress component industry affiliations at all? If so, you probalby should disclose it. Other posters say all the time where they purchase things, but you don't seem to want to. Are we all breaking the Forum rules? |
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I get it now; no SELF-promotion. I'd misunderstood - no promotion of any site at all! lol FYI, I have no affiliation with any mattress company et cetera. I'm a Pharmacist This message was modified Feb 5, 2010 by Pete
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Layer one. I bought a 6" thick full sheet of Lux-HQ from foamdistributing.com I cut in half the long way and stacked them w/o glue. This made a 12 inch base for a extra long twin bed. This message was modified Feb 5, 2010 by Pete
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Re: I made my own "Hybrid" mattress. Has anyone else done the same? What works for you?
| Layer 2: from foamdistributing.com a full sheet of HD36-HQ 2" I sliced it the long way and applied a VERY thin layer of spray glue to make a 4" thick extra long twin piece. |
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| Layer 3 was 2" of Sensus from foamsource.com. I trimmed the excess length from the poly foam layers using an electric carving knife. Then (no glue!) I carefully aligned the sensus foam with the other layers |
Re: I made my own "Hybrid" mattress. Has anyone else done the same? What works for you?
| Thanks Pete. Frankly, I never even looked at the forum rules before. I think it okay to state where one purchased things or where someone could purchase things. If not, this site would not be that useful. Of course, any affiliations or conflicts should be disclosed. |
Re: I made my own "Hybrid" mattress. Has anyone else done the same? What works for you?
| Layer 4 was 2.5 inch HD36-regular eggcrate foam from foamdistributing.com I had to order a full sheet so I just cut it to fit. Lay it on top, no glue |
Re: I made my own "Hybrid" mattress. Has anyone else done the same? What works for you?
| Layer 5 was given to me by my grandmother. It was made in the 1950's and is a wool comforter that is king sized. It weighs 60 pounds! I wouldn't know how much one like that would cost today or even where to get one! I folded it in half the long way (after sending it to the cleaner's lol) and placed it on top of the eggcrate foam. This had the most wonderful effect of binding everything together! The mattress before had been just a bunch of separate layers but this heavyweight comforter seemed to make the mattress more than the sum of its parts! It was the missing link. |
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| Layers 6 and 7 were simply to seal the mattress from the elements. Layer 6 was a cloth covered vinyl mattress cover. Layer 7 is an easy-wash cotton mattress pad. I love this bed and it frankly puts the BEST Tempurpedic to shame. All for around $700. |
Re: I made my own "Hybrid" mattress. Has anyone else done the same? What works for you?
| Another nice thing is, if one layer wears out I only have to replace that one layer, instead of buying a whole mattress!!! For example, after about 4 years, I found there were the beginnings of some hammocking, it was the eggcrate layer in need of replacement, after that everything's great! |