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I've been looking for the exact foam/spring specs for a mattress my wife and I slept on during our honeymoon for a year and a half now. We had hoped to buy one when we got back to the states, but it is made by a hotel matress manufacturer in China, so we weren't able to. I couldn't find the exact specs anywhere (other than the vague description of it having memory foam and latex over pocketed coils), so we settled for an over-priced mattress that was supposed to be what we had described. It felt close to it in the store but less than two weeks after we bought it, the mattress had almost 2 inch deep body impressions. It is mostly egg crate, a layer of memory foam of unspecified thickness or density, & something called ComforLatex. I have been so dead set on recreating our honeymoon mattress with our upcoming mattress surgery that I thought I'd never get past the planning stages. However, today I got lucky and found a blueprint of the layers in our beloved honeymoon mattress. It has every layer of foam labeled with density and thickness, which I've included below. It's all metric, so here are the conversions. 2cm = 8/10ths of an inch, 3.5cm = 1.4 inches, 4cm = 1.6 inches 18kg/cu meter = 1.1lbs/cu ft ... 22kg/cu meter = 1.4 lbs/cu ft ... 25kg/cu meter = 1.6 lbs/cu ft ... 60 kg/cu meter = 3.7 lbs/cu ft ... 70kg/cu meter = 4.4 lbs/cu ft.
I'm very happy to have found the blueprint to the mattresss while I'm planning on mattress surgery, but I'm new to this so I have some (probably dumb) questions before I order my foam and rip the mattress open. Is recreating the feel of our honeymoon mattress a realistic goal given that it's a 16.5 inch mattress and our current mattress is 14 inches? Is 8/10ths of an inch what we call a 1 inch cut in the states or is a 1 inch topper really 1 inch thick? Is Latex's density related to its ILD? Two all-natural talalay latex slabs with the same density should compare pretty closesly regardless of where they're from, right? What should I look out for when doing surgery on a foam encased pocket coil mattress? I've heard it can be tricky. Should I put in the same low-density PU foam our honeymoon mattress has (1.1 to 1.6 lbs/cu ft) and expect to replace it often or should I put higher density foam in it? Has anyone ever heard of the "ComforLatex" that's in my current mattress?
Thanks for looking and thanks in advance for your help. This message was modified Apr 16, 2012 by guyplus
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| Not sure where you're located but there are a lot of places in our area that offer custom mattresses for consumers looking for something unqiue - I would probably go that route if you're able to. |