Mattress Forum

Hi Iris,

I was just telling pimy I've got a plan to ease into / try out a euro slat bed base.  I will -

* buy an $80 Sultan Laxeby from Ikea.

* Put it straight onto my metal bed frame for testing out (will need to support foot of mattress with something else temporarily.

* If it goes well, I have the SleepEZ / KD found. wood foundation I can modify to place the euro slate base into.  Will need to mod a bit and add a few slats.

* if that goes well, good.  Option to upgrade to a high end euro slat base (Flobeds, Axel Bloom, Sleepworks, etc..) or an electrically adjustable euro slat base.  We'll see.

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I just know I want this latex the heck off the Serta foundation which like any other 'S' conventional foundation - Full of Leggett and Platt wire frame innards with pretty fabric cover.  They cannot be appopriate for all latex which is way soft underneath unlike much harder bottom foams on conventinal foam mattresses.  Plus, those foundations are non-adjustable and really have No give whatsoever.

What happened last week is the SleepEZ  wood foundation totally didn't work for me with the rigid pine slats.  Pine slats has almost no give and the shoulder area firmed up so much, my right shoulder was hurting a lot a couple days later.  

I know latex mattresses are demo'd on fixed slat bases.  

I hope I'm not finding out that talalay is not so good against fixed slats.  I believe Natural Mattress Store had their all latex on fixed slats, but they use a hefty Dunlop core.  I'm fishing around here a bit. 

European Sleep Works in Berkeley promotes the euro slat bases.  We're just finding out about these through Ikea and places like this.

I saw an ' American marketing' video for mattress sales people.  Guy kept plugging 'just sell steel '  ...... 'why?'  .... 'cause everyone knows steel is stronger than wood'  ..........

Yeah, and steel the way they use it in conventional foundations seem rigid to me.  Wanna laugh?  Go look and feel all the foundations used for conventional mattresses.  They are pretty much all the same.  Innerspring, memory foam (except TP) , Serta Vera Wang, all the same.  There are no more 'box springs' with springs or ever any kind of spring flex system.  They all use a grid of rods.  They are built to be cheap and strong enough, except my Serta foundation bent slightly in no time.  The usua run of the mill stuff we get - Leggett and Platt semi flex innards.

Just different fabrics over top.