Greetings everyone, I can’t remember how I found this site but I must say that after two days of reading I’m really glad I found it. Like everyone else here, I’m in need of a mattress and I need advice. Here’s a long post if you guys are willing to read through it…
My background: I work in a very physical job (think pro football player carrying a full toolbox and your getting close to what I go through daily). The job has brought me more than a few injuries, including some disc damage and a long list of sprains and strains. Add in multiple auto accidents and you can see how important a bed choice is to me now. It wasn’t so much that way in the past.
After a string of car accidents about 13 years ago, my chiro prescribed a foam rubber mattress. Not understanding the difference, I took that scrip to the local Tempurpedic retailer and picked up a classic queen mattress, along with a queen size neck pillow. I was very satisfied with this for a number of years.
Within the last couple of years the support layer began to fail. The memory foam is still perfect, but with no support, whats the point? Both me and my girl wake up in agony most mornings, that is, when we sleep at all. She gets about 4 hours each night, and I do about 6, usually waking in a layer of my own sweat.
Tempurpedic is offering to replace my classic queen for 55 percent of my purchase price for one of the 3 mattresses that replaced the Classic, or they’re offering a 45 percent of purchase price credit towards anything else they sell. Thats great, but I want to go to a king bed, and they won’t give me the 55 percent deal plus the king difference - they’re treating anything but an exact replacement as an upgrade. To illustrate how ridiculous that is, they’re offering me either the Cloud Select in queen at $1699, or the Contour Select queen at $2199. They don’t care which one, I just pay 55 percent of my original purchase price. But I can’t add $600 to the Cloud Select queen (the difference on their website) to get a Cloud Select King - they want me to spend $1624.45, which is full price for a new king Cloud Select minus 45 percent of my original purchase. Despite how much I like some of their products, this is seriously making me want to walk away from them.
So I’ve been shopping. I spent several days traveling around to different Mattress Firm locations, along with several Sears stores. Finally I found this site and I’ve been glad for the help its given me in decoding this stuff.
I tried Stearns&Foster (the Angie model), which Sears has on sale through today for 50 percent off their $4k+ plus price. Quite comfortable, but I really didn’t know if I could walk away from a viscoelastic bed and go to coils. Also, I tried two Angies 50 miles apart and they both felt different (yes, I know they do a split mattress display - I tried both sides). Still, the beds look downright regal, and the exterior seems to be very high quality material. Glad I didn’t jump on that sale though, because based on what I’ve read, even at $2k its about 300 percent overpriced. :lol:
I tried the iComfort Savant, and I was mildly impressed with it. Quite a price drop from a Tempur bed, but I’m not sold on them. Again, glad I didn’t jump, because it appears from what I read here that the bed is designed to feel great in the showroom, but heaven help you a year down the line when it gets worn in.
I’m willing to try latex mattresses, but I have no idea where on the west central coast of Florida to go check them out. A quick search turns up “Bed Pros”, which I tried one store in Bradenton when I was shopping for a Tempur replacement, but I don’t recall seeing any latex mattresses there.
Looking through the member list here, I found SelectFoam, and felt like I was finally getting somewhere. I really wanted to get a Tempurpedic Cloud, either the Select that Tempur was offering me, or the top of the line Luxe, which feels like laying on a cloud, really. I’m not about to spend $4700 on a damn mattress though. SelectFoam offers the Cirrus Select at $1199 with free shipping, or I could get their Cirrus Luxe in King for $2299. Or their other two Cirrus (compares to TP Cloud Supreme and Supreme Breeze) in between.
I’m looking for anyone who can offer opinions on SelectFoam’s service as well as their product, and how these mattresses contrast with popular latex brands here. The price is good, the warranty is great (lifetime replacement with free pickup and delivery), and the thought of no- or low-VOC/offgassing is a plus… I should mention that after crawling over all the new memory foam mattresses at Sears yesterday my arms feel like I’ve been bitten by ants. They itch and burn something fierce, a reaction I didn’t expect.
I need to make my mind up very soon. We’re in bad shape over here…