First time poster.
Firstly, thank you Phoenix for facilitating such a wonderfully useful resource in The Mattress Underground! In the two weeks I’ve been browsing the site, I have learned a great deal about what makes a good mattress and, just as importantly, unlearned some things I thought were fact. The best part is that it’s done here in an easy, un-hyped and non-promotional way. I genuinely feel like I’m getting not only good and accurate info about bedding but I’m getting it with little bias toward any particular manufacturer. That’s very welcome, especially after one has spent any time in one of the large brick and mortar vendors that sell mattresses.
I’m in the market for a queen latex mattress for myself and my wife. She is about 5’4” 130 pounds and I am 5’11” 240 pounds. We both prefer softer feeling mattresses. In fact, I just cannot sleep on a very firm mattress. On those occasions when we’ve stayed at the home of friends or in hotels that have firm mattresses, it’s been a poor night’s sleep for me.
To give you an idea of what feels good to me based on laying on some mattresses briefly last weekend:
Pure Latex Bliss Pamper – much too firm and unpleasant to me. PLB rates this a 5 on their plushness scale.
PLB Nature – firm but acceptable in the short-term at least. PLB rated at 8.
PLB World’s Best Bed – very plush and nice, spinal alignment seemed okay. PLB rated 10.
Pranasleep Vinyasa Firm – almost acceptable – perhaps a bit too firm
Pranasleep Vinyasa Plush – felt wonderful but too plush – poor spinal alignment
I’ve been impressed by what I’ve read about the quality and value of Dreamfoam Bedding’s Ultimate Dreams mattresses and am tending towards buying one of theirs. Up until yesterday, it was probably going to be their Eurotop model with the latex in their level 7, which I believe is 24 ILD. I would discuss it with their experts beforehand first, of course, because while my wife would probably love it, it might be so soft that I’d bottom out to the base foam. Buying the Eurotop would give me the advantage of changing out the latex if I found I’d ordered too firm or soft.
I say “Up until yesterday” because I had the good fortune of being able to purchase at a great price a barely-used PLB 3” all natural topper, which I believe is 14 ILD. So now the mattress I buy will be combined with the topper if it makes sense.
So Phoenix, I’m looking to bounce my current situation off of you and your site’s readers to get input. I’m guessing the topper combined with the UD Eurotop #7 and its 3 inches of 24 ILD would be too soft for me resulting in poor spinal alignment. Now that I have the topper, I’m also inclined to get the Ultimate Dream Ultra Plush mattress instead of the Eurotop and save a few hundred dollars. FWIW, PLB’s site indicates that their 3” topper combined with their mattress will raise the plushness rating by 3 on their scale; e.g a Pamper will feel more like an 8.
I welcome any feedback and thanks for reading.
-Dan