Advice Welcome and Badly Needed

[phoenix]

Hi mason,

Thanks for the thoughts. Very helpful. After a few more days and more reading I am leaning toward the talalay rather than foam.

Don’t forget that Talalay latex is a foam material even though latex foam is different from polyfoam or memory foam.

I have also been told latex will perform and hold up much better on an adjustable base than foam and to stay at about 10". Thicker may cause bunching. Does all that sound right?

That’s right yes although even a little thicker will till work well on an adjustable bed because latex is very flexible.

Wife is somewhat resistive to all latex. She is 5’3, apx. 150lbs, sleeps on her side and stomach and likes a soft pillow top feel. She is worried latex will be too firm.

Latex comes in a very wide range of firmness levels from ultra soft to extra firm so this would be a matter of choosing the firmness level and design that would be best for her.

Looking at Sleep EZ, Brookland Bedding, Habitat Furnishings talalay/dunlop “Sky”, Restonic Nevada Plush, Arizona Mattress, and Plushbeds. Too many choices and need soon! Any more thoughts and input?

Outside of local testing where you can test a mattress in person … there is a link in the tutorial post to a list of the members of this site that sell latex mattresses online in different budget ranges and with different features and options that compete well with the best in the country. Of course that doesn’t include every option you have but if you know all the details of the materials and components in any two similar mattresses then you can make meaningful quality and value comparisons between them based on all the parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you.

Phoenix