Mattress Forum

After sleeping on spring mattresses and having the padding crush down and springs soften I wanted to try another type of construction.  I was very excited about the air mattresses, but after trying them I didn't find them very supportive.  My experiences with memory foam pillows and toppers were that they felt great at first, but softened a great deal over time.  After reading this message board I decided to give latex a try.  

I read the websites and compared products from plushbeds, habitat, flobeds, and sleepez.  More people seem to have had positive experiences with the last two so I focused on flobeds and sleepez.  Then came the endless decisions:  natural or blend, talalay or dunlop?  We decided that price was a major factor and went with sleepez because with their special pricing, a queen latex with 6 inch dunlop core and 2 inch talalay topper was under $1000, and the least expensive flobed (albeit with natural talalay) would have been double that.  Ultimately we ordered the soft/med/firm configuration that Shaun says most people go with.

Now here is a piece of info that I haven't seen mentioned on the forum yet:  Shaun said that I could order the talalay blend instead of dunlop if I wanted and still get the special price.  Ultimately, because my wife and I like firm beds we decided to stay with the dunlop.  Shipping was fast, set up wasn't terribly difficult, and just three days later we were sleeping on the new mattress.  My experience was that my years long persistent backache wasn't there in the morning!  Unfortunately, my wife found the mattress very hard (I am 5ft 10, 185lb, she is 5 ft 4, 135lb) and described it like camping on the ground.  Talking to Shaun, what we decided to do was to swap with a talalay blend medium layer, and while it was shipping, we made my wife's side soft/med dunlop/ med dunlop while mine became soft/ firm dunlop/firm dunlop.  This combo was better for my wife, too firm for me.  Yesterday the new layer arrived and we created our new layers of soft T/ med T/ firm D for me, and soft T/ med T/ med D for her. 

It has only been one night but it felt great.  Very soft and much easier to sleep on my side, but still no backache.  My wife reports it was much more comfortable as well.

We will continue this set up for a while, and just hang on to the other cores for a few weeks (Shaun's suggestion) until we are sure it is right.  Ultimately, I might decide I want it slightly firmer in which case I will swap my medium Talalay for the medium Dunlop we still have.

Anyway I hope this is helpful and that learning the talalay blend is available at sleepez's special price might be useful for someone.  It might be strange to have two talalay layers and one dunlop layer but it is working for us so far.

John