talalay too hard, any advice how to soften?
Nov 29, 2010 11:09 AM
Joined: Feb 8, 2010
Points: 72
I put 2" of fairly soft talalay on  top of our hard innerspring bed, and after a week of sleeping on it my wife says its too hard, and I find myself having backaches the next day even though I am very comfortable all night in the bed.

I went looking for an eggcrate just to see how softening it a bit would work, but can find only really crappy thin PU eggcrates, or fairly expensive memory foam ones.

Any suggestions on the best way to soften it a bit? I'd be tempted to try another inch of really soft latex,  don't really want to buy more expensive latex after my results with the first piece. But I also don't see the point in covering the expensive latex we have now with a cheaper foam, and loosing the premium latex "feel".  I can also recall hearing some theories here about using a thin layer of memory foam over latex but don't recall the details.

Re: talalay too hard, any advice how to soften?
Reply #9 Nov 30, 2010 4:28 PM
Joined: Jun 12, 2010
Points: 51
phoenix,

i agree. i just don't have the motivation at this point to start all over again with another vendor. moving, packing and shipping those heavy, unwieldly pieces of latex is a pain. and who is to say that even a different config would work for us? i'm at this point exploring other possibilities.

Re: talalay too hard, any advice how to soften?
Reply #10 Nov 30, 2010 9:21 PM
Joined: Feb 8, 2010
Points: 72
 

Just was cutting through Bon Ton (dept store) and noticed they had a bunch of half price deals on mem foam topper, but still all in the $60-$200 range.  I asked the girl if they had any cheap PU foam toppers and she said they had closed them all out but might have a few orphans in the back. Came back with a king size for $29. On examination it turned out to be  1-1/2" convoluted, made-in-USA, memfoam, with an original sticker price of $110!

Maybe not Sensus but probably close enough to be worth trying, especially considering the price.

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