Mattress Forum

This is a husband and wife king bed.  Both sides were Firm, Med and Soft.  And the foam is the higher end Organic Talalay. 

Shipping to Canada was via the post and didn't cost that much nor take that long.  It was great to have USPS/Canada Post as an option, avoiding the usual UPS/Fedex broker fees.  The price I paid including shipping was a much better deal compared to another options of equivalent mattresses buying direct from a retailer in Canada.  I highly recommend buying from online stores out of the US.

The boxes arrived in good shape.  Even after one of them was opened and resealed by Canada Customs.  There were no instructions included and I wasn't sure which box has the mattress cover.  I didn't want to open all of them because I read its better to open them up in sequence and on top of the bed to avoid awkward lifting of latex chunks. But a quick call to the SleepEz toll free line got the answers I needed.  The cover is in the softest foam box because it fits better with the foam that has the most air.

There was a strong odour to the foam but once the cover was zipped up the odour was non existent to me.

Foundation was my previous Sealy box spring but the springs are close together so I felt comfortable this would be close to a slotted non sprung foundation.  We did put a couple of pieces of thin plywood on top of the foundation to reduce what minimal spring there was.

Now to the impressions of the mattress itself.

It does have a bit of a bulging convex shape to it.  I think its partly because of the nature of the foam and it being compressed on the outsides as its zippered up.  I hope that convex shape becomes less obvious, maybe as it settles.  The sides are very soft and have a lot of give and you really notice a huge dip or sinking feeling when I sit on the side of the bed.

The feel is excellent.  It feels creamy smooth.  You do not feel springs nor does it feel like there is anything in the mattress.  It feels smooth on top and smoothly contiguous throughout from top to bottom.  When I think of how latex feels, I think of creamy.  And the second most significant adjective that comes to mind is bottomless.  It feels like there is infinite depth to the mattress, as if there isn't a bottom.  I do not feel like there is a bottom down below me.  When I put these two adjectives to my wife, she said that describes the feel perfectly.

I still woke up twice during the first night.  I'm not surprised as I'm older and have to do a bio break in the middle of the night.  And I am on a medication which does have mild insomnia side effects.  But my sleep was MUCH deeper than before.  And I'm not just saying that.  Three things happened with my sleep that are indicative of how deep it was.  First of all I dreamt more and the dreams were more intense and memorable when I woke up.  Secondly, I slept in and missed a 7 AM conference call.  I don't set an alarm because I'm usually up pretty early and I didn't set an alarm and slept in 30 mins past the conference call.  And finally, I felt much more rested in the morning compared to usual.

I should mention that our previous mattress was a 15 year old Sealy coil and foam that could have been beaten by any new mattress I suppose.  While that may be true, a lot of what I like about this mattress has more to do with a rubber based latex foam mattress and its characteristics which are different than the coil mattress.  So far, I'm liking latex better.

Bryan