I agree with D3Fi that I will not sleep on a mattress full of chemicals. I value my health so if I did not have allergies to the chemicals, I still would not want to sleep in a room with them. That is why I bought solid wood furniture and my FloBed Latex mattress since I want to wake up feeling well and not feeling sick like I used to when I had a conventional mattress. Today's world even has more chemicals and fire retardant chemicals in beds and I should know since Ii had to send the Simmons Roosevelt Bed back to Rockaway Bedding last February 2007 since I could not even be in the same room with it the first night without losing my voice and feeling like I could not breath. I tried sleeping on it after airing it out all day with the windows open. I got so hot, felt nausea, couldn't breath and lost my voice that I put my bedding on the floor. The heat factor went away but I was getting sicker by the moment and felt like I would suffocate until I got out of the room and slept in a spare room on the floor rather than be in the same room as the bed full of chemicals. I was shocked by my experience since my former very old Posteurpedic extra firm bed with no padding only gave me a stuffed nose and a headache but I could sleep on it until it fell apart.
If I had to do it all over again, I still would have chosen my latex kit from FloBeds and not the Dormia Mattress. But if I never found out about latex kit mattresses, the Dormia Milan would have been the bed I would have bought. I can see now it would have been lower than I liked and the mattress not as thick as the one I have now. I also had a lot of latex cores exchanges and the Dormia Milan is not able to be opened to exchange the latex cores. After my car accident, I needed even a firmer bed than I already had which was already very firm and it was easy to just move my latex cores around to place all the firmest ones on my side of the bed.
No bed is perfect but getting a bed with a pillowtop is asking for a very short-term experience with a bed in my opinion since they do sink in and then become not comfortable. I know D3FI also had many latex core exchanges with FloBed to get the right comfort level for him and his wife. He likes his beds very firm also like me. I think firm beds last longer since you can add toppers to replace when they wear out and still have your bed for many years.
If you like a soft top, just get a soft latex topper or if you do not mind chemicals some other topper. If you don't mind chemicals and prefer springs, I would go with the firmest bed and add a topper. But this is just my opinion based on my experiences and reading posts of others.
