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I'm thinking of buying a cheap innerspring mattress with quality springs and remove the foam out of it and replace it with latex on the top. I found a mattress from a regional manufacturer that uses Lura-Flex High Profile Offset Spring System @ 14 gauge steel. The coil count on the queen size is 805 coils. It has 1 inch of 1.2 density PU foam @ 27 compression (ILD?). The price of the set (mattress and box spring) is $700.
Would this be a good base to put a latex topper (1'', 2'', or 3'') on? If comfortable, I might sleep on the foam for awhile before replacing it. I think you normally want stronger gauge springs but does the high coil count make up for that?
On the latex topper front, I need some helping figuring out a starting point. I'm 5' 11", 160lbs, my wife is 5' 4", 180lbs, and we're both side sleepers. I don't expect someone to tell me the exact ILD number we will eventually need but I'm wondering what a good starting point would be (fully expecting that I will have to exchange it out for a different one) to minimze the exchanges. If you have latex on springs, could you post what's working for you (height, weight and spring gauge, style, and # coils)?
I took a look around and it seems that SLAB and Sleep EZ allow returns/exchanges on their latex toppers. Do you know of any more that might be more reasonable but still good quality? I think I wanna stay away from FBM based on what I've read. |
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Maybe the Luraflex is okay with a big latex on top of it. But I didn't like the Luraflex mattresses that I tried because the springs have too much "shimmy" to them and I hate springs that wiggle around. But, the Luraflex has been around for a long, long time, and many people do like the way it feels. And with the dampening of latex, it might be okay. Or not, bdepending on the size of the mattress. A tight top twin w/ Luraflex might be okay, but definitely the full and queen had too much shimmy. Just thought I'd put my 2 cents into the discussion. This message was modified Jun 11, 2011 by TC2334
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